Luke Jerram in 2017

Luke Jerram (born 1974)[1] is a British installation artist. He creates sculptures, and large artwork installations, and live arts projects.

Artwork

Jerram’s creation of sculptures, installations and live art, spreads internationally since 1997. In 2022, alone he had 104 exhibitions in 25 different countries, being visited by over 2 million people.[2]

in 2002, Jerram created Tide, an artwork consisting of acoustic sculptures demonstrating ‘live’ representation of how the gravitational impact the moon, affects our Earth.[3]

in 2004, Jerram 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]

Aeolus Acoustic wind pavilion at Canary Wharf, Tower Hamlets (borough), London in March 2012.

In 2012, he presented Aeolus, an acoustic wind pavilion at Canary Wharf, Tower Hamlets (borough), London. named after the Aeolian harp, it is 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 seems fragmented until you are 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In 2015, he created Withdrawn, which placed a fleet of stranded fishing boats strategically located around Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve.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]

Personal life

Gaia 7m tall balloon of the Earth at Frauenkirche, Dresden.

He is a visiting fellow at the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol.[9]

Jerram suffers from dichromatic colourblindness.[10]

Luke lives in Bristol UK with his wife and two children.[8]

Selected works

Withdrawn consisting of boats stranded high above Avon Gorge in Leigh Woods, 2015.

Selected awards

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Mars at Dorchester Corn Exchange in 2022

References

  1. ^ "CV". lukejerram.com. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  2. ^ "About Gaia and the Artist". trurocathedral.org.uk. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "Exhibition Tide Jerram, L. and Ride, P. 2002. Tide. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada 13 - 21 Apr 2002". westminster.ac.uk. 21 April 2002.
  4. ^ a b c d "Glass Microbiology". interaliamag.org. 1 May 2016.
  5. ^ a b Randolph Jonsson (21 April 2012). "Acoustic wind pavilion makes music out of thin air". newatlas.com.
  6. ^ a b "Luke Jerram pixelated sculpture at Bristol Temple Meads". BBC News Bristol. 25 July 2013.
  7. ^ a b Michael Ribbeck (10 February 2015). "Bristol artist Luke Jerram to maroon fleet of boats in Leigh Woods in new project". bristolpost.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015.
  8. ^ a b "About lukejerram". lukejerram.com. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  9. ^ "CFPR at UWE : Visiting Senior Research Fellow Luke Jerram". www.uwe.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  10. ^ Greg Boustead (15 October 2009). "At the Edge of Perception - You Should Know". Seed. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017.
  11. ^ "Clarkes Digital Bursary". dshed.net. 2 December 2010. Archived from the original on 2 December 2010.

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