Luke Jerram (born 1974) [1] is a British installation artist. He creates sculptures, and large artwork installations, and live arts projects.
Luke Jerram (born 1974) [1] is a British installation artist. He creates sculptures, and large artwork installations, and live arts projects.
Jerram's creation of sculptures, installations, and live art spread internationally since 1997, which by 2022 grew to 104 exhibitions in 25 different countries, visited by over two million people. [2] [ dead link ]
In 2002, he created Tide, an artwork consisting of acoustic sculptures demonstrating 'live' representation of how the moon's gravity affects the Earth, where gravitational information was translated into sound. [3]
In 2004, he began creating a series of transparent and colourless large glass sculptures of viruses and other pathogens, titled Glass Microbiology, recreating viruses such as smallpox, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, hand, foot and mouth disease and swine influenza. [4]
In 2012, he presented Aeolus, an acoustic wind pavilion at Canary Wharf in London. Named after the Aeolian harp, it was designed to create music without the need of human or electrical power. [5]
In 2013, he created Maya, a sculpture of a girl created using 5,000+ photographs of his daughter, installed at platform three of Temple Meads railway station, which seemed fragmented until the viewer was far enough away for the image to be unpixellated. [6]
In 2015, he created Withdrawn, which placed a fleet of stranded fishing boats strategically located around Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve. The artwork was supported by the National Trust and the Forestry Commission. [7]
The artwork Museum of the Moon is one of his most successful projects and has been exhibited more than 300 times in 30 countries across the world. [8]
He is a visiting fellow at the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol. [9]
Jerram has dichromatic colourblindness, which he views as a gift. [10] He lives in Bristol, England with his wife and two children. [8]
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