Marcel Hoogstad Hay is a Tarntanya (Adelaide), Australia based artist working with blown glass. He utilises the material and optical qualities of glass to explore ideas around perception, particularly of the physical world and astronomical phenomena. 

Hoogstad Hay received a 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 two-year Associate Training Program at JamFactory, Adelaide.

Hoogstad Hay was awarded the Australian Government Endeavour Fellowship in 2015 to undertake a residency at Berlin Glas e.V. (Germany), and holds works in the collection of the Ernsting Foundation Glass Museum (Germany). He has been a scholarship student at Penland School of Crafts (USA) and a Rosenberg Resident at Salem State University (USA). Hoogstad Hay has been a finalist in both the FUSE Glass Prize and the AGWA Tom Malone Prize, and was the 2023 recipient of the FUSE Glass Artist Residency at JamFactory. Recently he was a finalist in the Rigg Design Prize at the National Gallery of Victoria.

I am interested in the ways people perceive the world; our perceptions of space, time and matter, and how these notions relate to physics. I am fascinated by the physical forces in the universe, and the quanta it is built from. Using the materiality of glass, I explore these ideas through line, form, and the distortion of image.