Luke Jerram

Jerram's work has been featured in over 900 exhibitions and is in over 50 permanent collections, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York an the Wellcome Collection in London.{{Cite web |last=Jerram |first=Luke |date=2025-03-23 |title=lukejerram.com |url=https://www.lukejerram.com/about/ |access-date=2025-03-23 }} {{Dead link|date=January 2025}}{{Cite web |title=Luke Jerram |url=https://www.rwa.org.uk/blogs/artists/luke-jerram?utm_term=&utm_campaign=&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=1951264702&hsa_cam=22356244253&hsa_grp=&hsa_ad=&hsa_src=x&hsa_tgt=&hsa_kw=&hsa_mt=&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2N2_BhCAARIsAK4pEkXz80IZqltVMfygFpOzIFwndvCpzLONKRb6vWZuSfMYjXNdt5rT1kIaAky1EALw_wcB |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=RWA Bristol |language=en}}

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.{{Cite web |title= Exhibition Tide Jerram, L. and Ride, P. 2002. Tide. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada 13 - 21 Apr 2002 |url= https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/93x41/tide |work= westminster.ac.uk |date= 21 Apr 2002}}

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.{{Cite web |title= Glass Microbiology |url= https://www.interaliamag.org/articles/luke-jerram-glass-microbiology/ |work= interaliamag.org |date= May 1, 2016}}

File:Canary Wharf Aeolus sculpture.JPG, 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.{{Cite web |title= Acoustic wind pavilion makes music out of thin air |url= https://newatlas.com/acoustic-pavilion-music-thin-air/22240/ |author= Randolph Jonsson |work= newatlas.com |date= April 21, 2012}}

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.{{Cite web|url= https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-23434001 |title= Luke Jerram pixelated sculpture at Bristol Temple Meads |work= BBC News Bristol |date=25 July 2013 }}

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.{{Cite news|url= http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Art-craft-Boats-woods-project-gets-ahead/story-26000030-detail/story.html |title= Bristol artist Luke Jerram to maroon fleet of boats in Leigh Woods in new project |author= Michael Ribbeck |work= bristolpost.co.uk |date= February 10, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150702075730/https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Art-craft-Boats-woods-project-gets-ahead/story-26000030-detail/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-07-02 }}

In 2019 he set up and funded both the Dreamtime Fellowship to support recent art graduates in his home city of Bristol and the Bristol Schools Arts Fund to support secondary schools impacted by austerity. In 2024 he set up the Jerram Foundation to help deliver some of these charitable projects.{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.lukejerram.com/about/ |website=lukejerram.com |access-date=2025-04-03}}

In 2020 he was given an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bristol, made an Honorary Academician of the RWA and Fellow of The Royal Astronomical Society.{{Cite web |title=Luke Jerram |url=https://www.rwa.org.uk/blogs/artists/luke-jerram?utm_term=&utm_campaign=&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=1951264702&hsa_cam=22356244253&hsa_grp=&hsa_ad=&hsa_src=x&hsa_tgt=&hsa_kw=&hsa_mt=&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2N2_BhCAARIsAK4pEkXz80IZqltVMfygFpOzIFwndvCpzLONKRb6vWZuSfMYjXNdt5rT1kIaAky1EALw_wcB |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=RWA Bristol |language=en}}

His newest artwork, Helios, is seven metres across and named after a Greek god. Each centimetre of the enormous spherical sculpture, which is lit from inside, is said to represent 2,000 kilometres of the Sun’s surface.It fuses solar imagery, sunlight and a new composition by sound artist Duncan Speakman and musician Sarah Anderson which includes NASA recordings of the Sun. {{Cite web |last=Whetstone |first=David |title=After the Moon comes the Sun to light up an historic building |url=https://www.culturednortheast.co.uk/p/after-the-moon-comes-the-sun-to-light |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=www.culturednortheast.co.uk |language=en}}

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He is a visiting fellow at the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol.{{cite web |title=CFPR at UWE : Visiting Senior Research Fellow Luke Jerram |url= https://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/research/cfpr/staff/luke_jerram/index.html |website=www.uwe.ac.uk |accessdate=21 December 2019}}

Jerram has dichromatic colourblindness, which he views as a gift.{{cite web |url= http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/at_the_edge_of_perception |title= At the Edge of Perception - You Should Know |work=Seed |author= Greg Boustead |date= October 15, 2009 |archive-date=2017-12-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171206005911/http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/at_the_edge_of_perception }} He lives in Bristol, England with his wife and two children.{{Cite web |title= About lukejerram|url=https://www.lukejerram.com/about/ |work= lukejerram.com |access-date=2023-06-08}}

File:Luke Jerram's 'Withdrawn' in Leigh Woods.JPG in Leigh Woods, 2015.]]

• [https://www.lukejerram.com/tide/ Tide] (2002): Acoustic sculptures demonstrating ‘live’ the impact of the moon's gravity.
• [https://www.lukejerram.com/glass/ Glass Microbiology] (2004): Glass sculptures of viruses and other pathogens.
• Dream Director (2007)
• Play Me, I'm Yours (2008)
• [http://www.skyorchestra.co.uk/ Sky Orchestra] (2011)
• Aeolus (2012): An acoustic wind pavilion at Canary Wharf, London.
• [https://www.lukejerram.com/maya/ Maya] (2013): A sculpture of a girl created using 5,000+ photographs of his daughter.
• [https://www.lukejerram.com/urban_slide/ Park and Slide] (2014)
• [https://lukejerram.com/withdrawn/ Withdrawn] (2015): A fleet of stranded fishing boats located around Leigh Woods.
• Museum of the Moon (2016)
• Gaia (2018)
• [https://my-mars.org/ Mars] (2019)
• [https://www.lukejerram.com/palm-temple/ Palm Temple] (2020)
• [https://www.ofearthandsky.co.uk/ Of Earth and Sky] (2020)
• [https://memoriamartwork.com/ In Memoriam] (2020)
• [https://my-earth.org/installations/floating-earth/ Floating Earth] (2021)
• [https://www.lukejerram.com/clothed-with-protection/ Clothed with Protection] (2022)
• [https://www.lukejerram.com/crossings/ Crossings] (2022)
• [https://www.lukejerram.com/first-breath/ First Breath] (2023)
• [https://www.lukejerram.com/power-of-light/ Power of Light] (2023)
• [https://www.lukejerram.com/ascension/ Ascension] (2024)
• [https://www.lukejerram.com/tipping-point/ Tipping Point] (2024)
• [https://my-moon.org/installations/fallen-moon/ Fallen Moon] (2024)
• [https://www.lukejerram.com/mirror-moon/ Mirror Moon] (2024)
• [https://my-helios.org/ Helios] (2025)

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File:Luke Jerram's Mars - Dorchester Corn Exchange (51936672052).jpg

• 1999 Da2 Digital Arts Development Agency {{Cite web|url= http://www.dshed.net/clark-bursary |title= Clarkes Digital Bursary |work=dshed.net |date= December 2, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101202083859/http://www.dshed.net/clark-bursary |url-status= dead |archive-date= December 2, 2010}}
• 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{{Cite web |title=CV |url=https://www.lukejerram.com/cv/ |website=lukejerram.com |access-date=2025-04-03}}
• 2011 Fellowship at Museum of Glass, Washington
• 2013 Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards. Play Me, I’m Yours ‘Best Public Art’
• 2017 Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence Grant at University of Bristol, UK.
• 2018 Visiting Fellow Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of West of England
• 2022 Hearts for the Arts Award, for Of Earth and Sky.
• 2024 Oxford University, ImmersiGenius Distinction Award.

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• Exhibitionism - The Art of Display. {{ISBN|978-0-9557950-1-5}}
• Science Magazine Vol 326, Issue 5951
• Medicine and Art. Mori Art Museum. [http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/medicine/index.html]
• 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}}
• {{Cite web |title=Luke Jerram of Earth and Sky book |isbn=978-1909446458 |url=https://www.bristolbooks.org/shop/lukejerram-ofearthandsky |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=Bristol Books CIC |language=en-GB}}
• {{Cite web |date=2019-04-01 |title=Luke Jerram: Art, Science & Play |isbn=978-1-911408-48-2 |url=https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/luke-jerram-art-science-play/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=Sansom & Company |language=en-US}}

• [http://www.lukejerram.com Luke Jerram]

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