'Echo Shift' is an architectural installation by Zachary Eastwood-Bloom that reflects on the tension between change and continuity, and the uneasy sense that while the world appears to progress, human nature remains fundamentally unchanged. The work explores technological, political, and social shifts over time, that feel like advancement yet carry with them the same enduring frailties of human fallibility, felt as a kind of historical echo.

Made as part of an evolving series in bronze, ceramic, and marble, 'Echo Shift' was developed from a work first conceived for Eastwood-Bloom’s Royal College of Art degree show. Composed as a series of eight individual marble panels, constructed from straight lines and precise angles, each panel can be hung individually or arranged in sequence, allowing the work to shift between object and environment.

Carved in collaboration with a pioneering quarry in Italy, the marble surface is, for Eastwood-Bloom, representative of skin, giving physical form to an emotional rather than purely intellectual realisation. The material becomes a site where digital precision meets bodily reference, undermining assumptions of permanence and certainty. As the world continues to change around it, 'Echo Shift' suggests that beneath the narratives of progress, the echoes of human nature reverberate around us.

Zachary Eastwood-Bloom studied BA Ceramics at Edinburgh College of Art (2000–2004) before graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2010, where he studied Ceramics and Glass. Eastwood-Bloom’s MA project was exhibited as part of the Crafts Council’s touring exhibition Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft (2010-2011) and he has exhibited with the V&A, the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal British Society of Sculptors.

In 2016, he was awarded Pangolin London’s sculpture residency and presented his first major solo London exhibition, Divine Principles, in 2017. In 2019, he completed a residency as the first digital artist in residence at the Royal Scottish Ballet for their digital season. In 2024 Pangolin London presented his second solo show, Rewiring, which explored themes of loss, memory, and understanding through innovative combinations of digital technology and traditional sculpture.

Eastwood-Bloom has been awarded numerous prestigious fellowships and bursaries, including a Digital Sculpture Teaching Fellowship at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2015–2016), the Jerwood Makers Award (2015), Jerwood Visual Arts Bursary (2017), and the Inches Carr Bursary (2021). His work is held in public and private collections internationally, and he has completed numerous commissions, including the bronze Artemis (2021) for The Londoner Hotel, Leicester Square and a 2.5 metre high Marble Hera (2024) on Savile Row, London. Public art commissions include The Confusion (2017) commissioned by the Woolf Institute, Cambridge University, Isometric Metropolis (2017), a work that is integrated into the façade and interior of 11-12 Hanover Square, and Forever Blowing Bubbles (2021) at for the former site of West Ham Football group.

Eastwood-Bloom is a founding member of Studio Manifold, a group of artists and designers brought together by a shared interest in material and process, and he lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.