Marcel Hoogstad Hay is an Australian artist working primarily with blown glass. He received his Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours in 2012 from the Glass Workshop at the ANU School of Art and Design, Canberra, and in 2014 completed the Associate Training Program at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design. Hoogstad Hay has undertaken residencies at Berlin Glas, Salem State University, and ANU School of Art and Design, and in 2015 was awarded the Endeavour Executive Fellowship from the Australian Government. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and holds work in the Ernsting Foundation Glass Museum collection in Germany. Hoogstad Hay was a finalist in the FUSE Glass Prize in 2020 and the Tom Malone prize in 2021 and 2022. In 2023 he will undertake the FUSE Glass Artist Residency at JamFactory.
I am interested in astrophysics and quantum mechanics, and my work addresses the quantum nature of the universe and our perceptions of spacetime. Through the use of traditional Venetian cane techniques, I create complex patterns in glass that illustrate and explore these ideas.