Luke Jerram

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 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]

Aeolus acoustic wind pavilion at Canary Wharf, London in March 2012.

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In 2015, he created Withdrawn, which placed a fleet of stranded fishing boats strategically located around Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve.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

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 has dichromatic colourblindness, which he views as a gift.[10] He lives in Bristol, England with his wife and two children.[8]

Selected works

Withdrawn consisting of boats stranded high above Avon Gorge in Leigh Woods, 2015.

Selected awards

Mars at Dorchester Corn Exchange in 2022
  • 1999 Da2 Digital Arts Development Agency [11]
  • 2001 ACE Arts Council Touring Grant for Tide [3]
  • 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[4]
  • 2010 ACE Grants for the Arts Programme, Touring of Aeolus
  • 2011 Fellowship at Museum of Glass, Washington [4]

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.

Bibliography

  • Exhibitionism - The Art of Display. ISBN 978-0-9557950-1-5
  • Science Magazine Vol 326, Issue 5951
  • Medicine and Art. Mori Art Museum. [1]
  • Live Variola Virus. Book by AM Arvin, DM Patel, 2009 ISBN 0309136903
  • Art in Mind, Book by Jerram published by the Watershed, Bristol, 2008. ISBN 978-0-9560356-0-8
  • Bath Royal and Literary & Scientific Institution Vol10 ISSN 1465-8496
  • The New Astronomy: Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding Our View of Planet Earth. 2006 ISBN 978-1-4020-3723-8
  • Acoustic Space 6 Waves, RIXC. Aug 2006,
  • Dreams - Scientific Journal Nov 2006
  • OLATS, April 2004
  • Acoustic Space Art: Media Architecture, May 2002, ISBN 9984-9538-0-7