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Jeff

Zimmer

Jeff Zimmer creates works that engage with the material and symbolic properties of glass to explore the power of beauty to address brutality and nuance. He is interested in the sensual experiences of mystery, light and shadow.

Previous Experience

Jeff’s work has won the 2019 British Glass Biennale, and Second Prize in both the 2021 European Glass Context and the 2014 Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass, Europe’s largest prize for artists working with glass. He was the 2014 Stephen Procter Fellow at the Australian National University and has done residences at The Creative Glass Center of America (Wheaton), North Lands Creative Glass (UK), and Bullseye Projects (Portland). His work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the European Museum for Modern Glass in Germany; the Portheimka Museum (Prague), the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark and the Glasmuseum Frauenau, Germany. He continues to teach in Edinburgh, where he co-owns Glass Lab Edinburgh, and has lead masterclasses and workshops at Pilchuck (US), North Lands Creative Glass (UK), Bild-Werk Frauenau (DE), Berlin Glas (DE) and others.

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