Museum of the Moon: On Tour

Museum of the Moon is a new touring artwork by Luke Jerram that is being presented at a number of arts and cultural festivals over the coming years. The installation is a fusion of lunar imagery, moonlight and surround sound composition.

The artwork has recently toured five cities of India with the British Council and been presented in Aarhus, Denmark for the European Capital of Culture.

Listen to this 30 minute BBC Radio4 programme about the Museum of the Moon.

 

Inhale

Commissioned by University of the West of England (UWE) for the UPSTREAM initiative, Luke Jerram is creating a sculpture of a diesel soot particle, which will be presented around Bristol this summer, raising awareness of the problems of diesel pollution.

Created 3 million X larger than a real 1μm sized particle, the artwork will stand 3m tall. Find out more

For this project Luke has been made Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, UWE 2018

New Royal Liverpool University Hospital Commission

Luke Jerram has just installed Tribute, an artwork commissioned by the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals’ Organ Donation Committee and Royal Liverpool Dialysis Utilities Fund.

The artwork celebrates, remembers and gives thanks to the generosity of organ and tissue donors and their families. On display in the main reception area of the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Tribute is due to be unveiled when the new hospital opens.

Glass Microbiology at the Eden Project Spring 2018

A collection of Glass Microbiology artworks will go on display at the Eden Project, in Cornwall in Spring 2018 as part of the Invisible Worlds exhibition.  Made to contemplate the global impact of the disease, the artwork was created as an alternative representation to the artificially coloured imagery of viruses received through the media.

Jerram’s Glass Microbiology sculptures are in private collections around the world. Museum collections include The Metropolitan Museum NYC, The Corning Museum, The Wellcome Collection, London. Find out more about Glass Microbiology here.

Harrison's Garden on Tour

Harrison’s Garden is an imagined landscape and garden of clocks. Arranged into ‘species’ the clocks create an extraordinary landscape of sound and enable visitors to contemplate time and the significance of clocks in our lives. With clocks being added all the time, the installation is currently touring National Trust properties across the UK.

The title of the artwork refers to the famous clock maker John Harrison, who struggled for decades to make navigation at sea safer, by creating the most accurate clock the world had ever seen. Would he ever have imagined that there would be clocks in almost every room of every house and that they would shape society so profoundly? Modern society has developed and arguably only been made possible, through the time pieces that surround us. We wake up, work, eat and sleep when its time to do these things. The clock has also been internalised, brought within psychology, to the extent that most of us often know the time quite accurately without needing to look at a clock.

Whether it’s in a castle, church, old prison or mill, the context for the artwork’s presentation affects its interpretation. After first being presented in Nostell Priory, the artwork continued on tour to Castle Drogo in Devon until the end of October 2017. It is currently on display at Gunby Hall until 4 June 2018 and then it moves on to Penryhn Castle later in 2018.  Find out more here.

Ocean Pavilion in Singapore

The Ocean Pavilion was a temporary pavilion created for i-Light festival in Singapore. Made with the help of 11 schools and a local institute for ex-offenders, the artwork promotes the reuse and recycling of materials, but also considers the devastating effect plastic has on our ocean environment. The form of the sculpture was inspired by microscopic underwater creatures called radiolarians found in the nearby Singapore Strait.

Play Me, I'm Yours: new cities announced for 2018

Play Me, I’m Yours is an installation of street pianos which are located in cities across the world. The pianos are available for any member of the public to play and enjoy. By creating a place of exchange Play Me, I’m Yours invites the public to engage with, activate and take ownership of their urban environment.

To date over 1850 pianos have been installed in more than 55 cities worldwide and enjoyed by over 10 million people since it was first presented in 2008.

See list of forthcoming presentations in the events side bar above and on the Play Me, I’m Yours website.

 

Bloomberg Television Documentary

This brilliant 25 minute documentary describes Luke Jerram’s arts practice and interviews some of his recent collaborators. Filmed by Northern Town Media, Brilliant Ideas looks at the most exciting and acclaimed artists at work in the world today. Artists in the series include Grayson Perry, Cornelia Parker and Anish Kapoor.