Works

 

ARTIST

 

Jeff Zimmer

Jeff Zimmer creates works with glass that explore ambiguity, morality and mortality in contemporary society and politics, and engage with the sensual experiences of mystery and light. He subverts notions of light, investigating its capacity for evocation, mystery and ambiguity in place of its traditional associations with clarity, divinity, revelation and simplified notions of truth.


In his painted works he combines the transparency of glass, traditional technique of glass painting, and contemporary lighting to create dynamic scenes that appear to shift, dissolve and transform depending on the position of the viewer. 

Education & Teaching (Selected)

2005Masters, Glass & Architectural Glass, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK


Awards / Grants (Selected)

2014Second Prize, Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass 
Stephen Procter Fellowship, Australian National University


Exhibitions (Selected)

2018Open (Invited Artist), Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2017/2010/2008British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, UK
2017Transparency: An LGBTQ+ Glass Art Exhibition, Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, US
2016Neues Glas – Junges Glas, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, DE 
British Glass, Etienne Gallery, Oisterwijk, NL
2015International Glass Symposium Exhibition, Glass Museum, Nový Bor, CZ 
Clarity, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK 
43rd International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI, USA
2014Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass, Veste Coburg & European Museum for Modern Glass, Coburg, DE 
Absorb, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra, AU 
UK Glass, Het GlazenHuis, Flemish Centre for Contemporary Glass Art, Lommel, BE 
Shattered: Contemporary Sculpture in Glass, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, USA
2012European Applied Arts Prize, Exhibition Hall “Anciens Abattoirs”, Mons, BE
2011British Studio Glass, European Museum of Modern Glass, Rosenau, Coburg, DE


Collections (Selected)

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK 
European Museum for Modern Glass, Veste Coburg, Coburg, DE 
Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, Prague, CZ 
Museum of American Glass, US 
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, DK 

Publications (Selected) 
Journal of Craft Research, ‘Luminous Ambiguity’ by Jeff Zimmer, Vol 7, No. 1 (Spring 2016) 
Neues Glas/New Glass; Art & Architecture, ‘Profile: Jeff Zimmer’ by Duncan Macmillan, Volume 1, (May 2014) 
New Glass Review 34, 31 & 30, 2013, 2010, 2009 
La Revue de la Ceramique et du Verre, ´Jeff Zimmer: Variations sur le Paradoxe´ by Pascale Nobécourt, September/October 2013 
Glass, ‘Sustaining Stained Glass’ by Judith Schaechter, #92 (Fall 2003)