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 has created a giant three meter yarn ball which will soon be rolled through the streets of the city in a participatory new artwork which reflects Bradford’s heritage and utilises the cities creativity and craftsmanship.

Through a series of workshops, fabric donated by members of the public has be plaited together by more than 2500 community residents of the BD10 district into a giant rope stretching more than a kilometre. During the process of gathering fabrics and making the rope, people have 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.

The rope was then wound into a gigantic yarn ball, three metres high and three metres wide. With musical accompaniment from local musicians, the sculpture is being rolled around the streets of Bradford in a series of large-scale public events.

First Breath in Toronto

First Breath was presented 4 – 8 June 2025 at Luminato Festival, in Toronto, Canada. Each evening First Breath casts powerful beams of light up into the clouds to celebrate new life. Connecting the ground to the sky, the tower of light is a declaration of new life, celebrating the profound moment a baby takes its first breath in the world. The lights gently pulse and breathe 171 times, to represent the number of babies born each day in Toronto. Audiences are able to get up close to the artwork, walking in and around the lighting, as well as witnessing it from vantage points across the city.

Helios

Helios is a brand new artwork of our nearest star, the Sun that has just started touring.

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.

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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.