Luke Jerram (born 1974) is a British

installation art Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...

ist. He creates sculptures, large installations, and live arts projects. He is currently a

visiting fellow In academia, a visiting scholar, visiting researcher, visiting fellow, visiting lecturer, or visiting professor is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture, or perform research on a topic for which the visitor ...

at the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences,

University of the West of England, Bristol The University of the West of England (also known as UWE Bristol) is a public research university, located in and around Bristol, England. The institution was know as the Bristol Polytechnic in 1970; it received university status in 1992 and ...

. Jerram is

colour blind Color blindness or color vision deficiency (CVD) is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color. It can impair tasks such as selecting ripe fruit, choosing clothing, and reading traffic lights. Color blindness may make some aca ...

Selected works

* ''

Museum of the Moon ''Museum of the Moon'' is a 2016 inflatable installation artwork by Luke Jerram. It is a spherical model of the Moon, with a diameter of . Several copies tour the world for temporary exhibitions, often accompanied by music. There are also co ...

'' * ''Aeolus'' * '' Dream Director'' * ''

Play Me, I'm Yours A street piano is a piano placed in a public area that encourages passersby to stop and play. The Street Piano in Sheffield In Sheffield, ''The Street Piano'' was a piano on the pavement on Sharrow Vale Road in 2003. It was originally left outs ...

'' * ''Glass Microbiology'' * ''Park and Slide'' * ''Sky Orchestra'' * ''Tide'' * ''Maya'' * ''Withdrawn'' (2015) * ''

Gaia In Greek mythology, Gaia (; from Ancient Greek , a poetical form of , 'land' or 'earth'),, , . also spelled Gaea , is the personification of the Earth and one of the Greek primordial deities. Gaia is the ancestral mother—sometimes parthenog ...

'' is a 7 metre diameter sculpture of Earth, an installation at St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne in 2022

Selected awards

* Fellowship at Museum of Glass, Washington. 2011 * ACE Grants for the Arts Programme, Touring of Aeolus 2010 * 25th Rakow Award from The Corning Museum of Glass] 2010 * EPSRC, PPE Grant with ISVR,

Southampton University , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

2009 * ACE Grants for the Arts Programme, Touring of the Dream Director 2008 * UK Clark Digital Arts Bursary,

Watershed Watershed is a hydrological term, which has been adopted in other fields in a more or less figurative sense. It may refer to: Hydrology * Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins * Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...

2006 * AHRC Arts and Science Fellowship at

UWE Uwe or UWE may refer to * Uwe (given name) * University of the West of England, Bristol * UML-based web engineering * University Würzburg's Experimental miniaturized satellites for space research UWE-1 and UWE-2 * Uwe - Wreck in Blankenese Blank ...

2005-2006 *

NESTA Nesta (formerly NESTA, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) is an innovation foundation based in the UK. The organisation acts through a combination of programmes, investment, policy and research, and the formation of part ...

(National Endowment for Science Technology and Arts) Fellowship 2002-2005 *

ACE An ace is a playing card, Dice, die or domino with a single Pip (counting), pip. In the standard French deck, an ace has a single suit (cards), suit symbol (a heart, diamond, spade, or club) located in the middle of the card, sometimes large a ...

Arts Council Touring Grant for Tide 2001 * Da2 Digital Arts Development Agency Clarkes Digital Bursary
1999

Residencies

* Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol 2009 *

FACT A fact is a datum about one or more aspects of a circumstance, which, if accepted as true and proven true, allows a logical conclusion to be reached on a true–false evaluation. Standard reference works are often used to check facts. Scient ...

, Liverpool for European Capital of Culture, 2008 * Sodanklya Geophysical Observatory Lapland, 2003 * Watershed Media Arts Centre, 2003 *

RIXC The Centre for new media culture in Riga (RIXC) is the joint effort of a number of independent local Latvian cultural groups working in the fields of new media, art, film, music, youth culture and the social projects. The founders of RIXC are ...

, Riga, Latvia, 2003 * St.Lawrence University, New York, 2002

References

* Exhibitionism - The Art of Display.
Irish Arts Review Oct 2009
* Science Magazine Vol 326, Issue 5951 * Medicine and Art. Mori Art Museum.

* Live Variola Virus. Book by AM Arvin, DM Patel, 2009 * ''Art in Mind'', Book by Jerram published by the Watershed, Bristol, 2008. * Bath Royal and Literary & Scientific Institution Vol10 * The New Astronomy: Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding Our View of Planet Earth. 2006 * Acoustic Space 6 Waves, RIXC. Aug 2006, * Dreams - Scientific Journal Nov 2006 * OLATS, April 2004 * Acoustic Space Art: Media Architecture, May 2002,

External links

Luke Jerram
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jerram, Luke 1974 births Living people Artists from Bristol Recipients of the Rakow Commission