Luke Jerram



Luke Jerram (born 1974) 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In 2015, he created Withdrawn, which placed a fleet of stranded fishing boats strategically located around Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve.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.

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.

Personal life
He is a visiting fellow at the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol.

Jerram suffers from dichromatic colourblindness.

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

Selected works



 * Tide (2002): Acoustic sculptures demonstrating ‘live’ the impact of the moon's gravity.
 * Glass Microbiology (2004): Glass sculptures of viruses and other pathogens.
 * Dream Director (2007)
 * Play Me, I'm Yours (2008)
 * Sky Orchestra (2011)
 * Aeolus (2012): An acoustic wind pavilion at Canary Wharf, London.
 * Maya (2013): A sculpture of a girl created using 5,000+ photographs of his daughter.
 * Park and Slide (2014)
 * Withdrawn (2015): A fleet of stranded fishing boats located around Leigh Woods.
 * Museum of the Moon (2016)
 * Gaia (2018)

Selected awards

 * 1999 Da2 Digital Arts Development Agency
 * 2001 ACE Arts Council Touring Grant for Tide
 * 2002-2005 NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and Arts) Fellowship
 * 2005-2006 AHRC Arts and Science Fellowship at UWE
 * 2006 UK Clark Digital Arts Bursary, Watershed
 * 2008 ACE Grants for the Arts Programme, Touring of the Dream Director
 * 2009 EPSRC, PPE Grant with ISVR, Southampton University
 * 2010 25th Rakow Award from the Corning Museum of Glass
 * 2010 ACE Grants for the Arts Programme, Touring of Aeolus
 * 2011 Fellowship at Museum of Glass, Washington