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A Good Yarn

A Good Yarn is a new art project commissioned for UK City of Culture, Bradford 2025.

Working in collaboration with local creatives Bloomin’ Buds and Raven Staging, Luke will create a giant three metre yarn ball which will be rolled through the streets of the city in a fun new artwork which utilises Bradford’s creativity, craftsmanship and local pride.

Fabric donated by members of the public and waste textile materials will be plaited together by community residents of the BD10 district into a rope stretching more than a kilometre. The rope will then be wound into a gigantic yarn ball, three metres high and three metres wide, which will be rolled around the streets of Bradford in a series of playful large-scale public events.

During the process of gathering fabrics and making the rope, people will be encouraged to share their textile related memories, stories and feelings – from what a young person’s favourite item of clothing is and how it makes them feel to stories from working in the local mills decades before.

Helios

Helios is a brand new artwork of the Sun that has just been revealed at Bath Assembly Rooms. Another Helios is also on display at The Old Royal Naval College, London.

The sculpture provides a safe opportunity for the public to get up close to the Sun, and inspect its extraordinarily detailed surface, including sunspots, spicules and filaments. Helios will also act as a venue, enabling hosts to create their own programme of Sun inspired events and activities to take place beneath the artwork, including orchestral and choral performances; space science lectures by astronauts; environmental and wellbeing discussions with scientists and activists; yoga; poetry readings; dance and theatre performances.

The artwork has been co-commissioned by National Trust, Cork Midsummer Festival, Liverpool Cathedral, Old Royal Naval College and University College London.

Mirror Moon

Made in stainless steel, using NASA accurate topographic data from the moon’s surface, Mirror Moon allows the public to feel and touch every crater, valley and mountain. As well as allowing everyone to explore the Moon visually and through touch, this artwork will also be great for those in our society who are visually impaired.

The artwork was first presented at the Royal Society in London.

Arise - Nepal

Working with the ARISE team from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Phase Nepal , Luke devised and delivered a workshop with a women’s community group in Khudikola informal settlement, Pokhara, Nepal. The main form of employment for most people living in the village is selling gravel and boulders from the river, which they have to carry up the steep banks in baskets carried on their backs.

The women wrote down their hopes and dreams for their future, as well as the problems and difficulties faced by their community. Their problems include cast and sex discrimination, access to health and education services, flooding, poor roads and simple registration of their existence as an informal settlement by the authorities.

Their words were turned into imagery which then formed stencils used to decorate umbrellas. The umbrellas were then paraded by the group through the streets to local Nepalese music.

The workshop allowed us to collect information on the communities difficulties and for women’s group to get to know our team. The Jerram Foundation has since allocated funds, to deliver practical improvements in their community. Read more