Nine Lives

Have a read of this lovely article by Teleri Lloyd-Jones about Studio Manifold for Crafts Magazine www.craftscouncil.org.uk/crafts-magazine/latest-issue/feature/1

Transmutation (Detail) by Zachary Easswood-Bloom View high resolution

Transmutation (Detail) by Zachary Easswood-Bloom

Transmutation by Zachary Eastwood-Bloom View high resolution

Transmutation by Zachary Eastwood-Bloom

Transmutation by Zachary Eastwood-Bloom View high resolution

Transmutation by Zachary Eastwood-Bloom

Promo image from working with The New English Ballet Theatre company. View high resolution

Promo image from working with The New English Ballet Theatre company.

Promo image from working with The New English Ballet Theatre company. View high resolution

Promo image from working with The New English Ballet Theatre company.

Promo image from working with The New English Ballet Theatre company. View high resolution

Promo image from working with The New English Ballet Theatre company.

behjaturl:

Urban Decay

British Ceramics Biennial 2011

Collaborative work by Behjat Omer Abdulla and Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, for the British Ceramics Biennial 2011 show “Stick-Up” at AirSpace Gallery.

For ‘Urban Decay’ Zachary Eastwood-Bloom and Bahjat Omer Abdulla have made a series of urn shaped raw clay vessels, filled them up with water and filmed the resulting outcomes. This project examines the notions of dependency and erosion with a wider metaphor relating to Stoke-on-Trent and the ceramics industry. The water in the vessels is dependent on the structural integrity of the clay body to keep it contained, however it slowly weakens the material over a period of time resulting in a loss of both vessel and fluid.
This process is symbolic of the decay of Stoke-on-Trent as a result of the decline in industrial ceramic production. A place once heavily dependent on clay but now feeling the loss of its core material.

For more information about this project and other collaborative works form the other studio artists involved go to
airspacegallery.org or britishceramicsbiennial.com

(Reblogged from behjaturl)
behjaturl: Stick-Up  British Ceramics Biennial 30 September to 13 November, 11am - 5pm Tuesday to SaturdayPreview 30 September 7pm - 9.30pm   As part of the British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent’s AirSpace Gallery will be collaborating with London-based studio group Manifold, whose particular focus is Ceramics. AirSpace Gallery and its studio artists work within a contemporary art context working different medium. The intention is to instigate an element of risk for both the artists and curators. As both sets are removed from their individual comfort zones and work towards a challenging resolution. The two studio groups will be collaborating to make a body of works within a restricted time period. The focus of the project is the exchange between two types of working methods, skill sets and knowledge. The outcome of these investigations is unpredictable and will develop organically over an intensive three-day period leading up to the opening of the exhibition, which explores a newfound relationship between Ceramics and Contemporary Art. AirSpace Gallery Artists: Behjat Omar Abdulla, David Bethell, Andrew Branscombe, Anna Francis, Janine Goldsworthy, Phil Rawle, Katie Shipley.  Manifold Studio Artists: Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, Ellie Doney, Amy Hughes, Sun-Ae Kim, Hanne Mannheimer, Matthew Raw, Bethan Lloyd Worthington. View high resolution

behjaturl:

Stick-Up 

British Ceramics Biennial

30 September to 13 November, 11am - 5pm Tuesday to SaturdayPreview 30 September 7pm - 9.30pm

  As part of the British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent’s AirSpace Gallery will be collaborating with London-based studio group Manifold, whose particular focus is Ceramics. AirSpace Gallery and its studio artists work within a contemporary art context working different medium. The intention is to instigate an element of risk for both the artists and curators. As both sets are removed from their individual comfort zones and work towards a challenging resolution.

The two studio groups will be collaborating to make a body of works within a restricted time period. The focus of the project is the exchange between two types of working methods, skill sets and knowledge. The outcome of these investigations is unpredictable and will develop organically over an intensive three-day period leading up to the opening of the exhibition, which explores a newfound relationship between Ceramics and Contemporary Art.

AirSpace Gallery Artists:

Behjat Omar Abdulla, David Bethell, Andrew Branscombe, Anna Francis, Janine Goldsworthy, Phil Rawle, Katie Shipley. 

Manifold Studio Artists:

Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, Ellie Doney, Amy Hughes, Sun-Ae Kim, Hanne Mannheimer, Matthew Raw, Bethan Lloyd Worthington.


(Reblogged from behjaturl)

Just in Time

Check out my new Klat Magazine blog post at:

http://www.klatmagazine.com/eastwood-bloom/2011/09/10/just-in-time/