Museum of the Moon

Museum of the Moon is a new touring artwork by Luke Jerram that will be presented in 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 is currently being presented at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival. Last month the Museum of the Moon was at the University of Bristol, where we had over 20,000 visitors in just 2 days!

Norwich Cathedral Choir

Measuring seven metres in diameter, the moon features incredibly detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface. As the artwork travels from place to place, a range of lunar inspired events are taking place beneath the Moon.

Read about it in the Guardian Newspaper or Design Boom.

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Ocean Pavilion opens in Singapore

The Ocean Pavilion is 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 devasting 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.

Treasured City

Treasured City is a new artwork by Luke Jerram commissioned by 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe.

5 small artefacts from the North Lincolnshire Museum that represent the region, have been 3D scanned and cast in 18 carat gold. The gold replicas were hidden across Scunthorpe and the region for the public to find and keep.

Clues to whereabouts of the 5 gold artworks were woven into the visual content of 5 paintings for exhibition in 20-21 Visual Arts Centre from 18th February –  29th April 2017. Find out more about the art project here.

Read latest stories and information about how some of the paintings have been solved here. PDF

Glass Microbiology in Bristol

A collection of Glass Microbiology artworks is now on display in The Box a news arts venue within at-Bristol. 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.

Play Me, I'm Yours Continues

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.

Play Me, I’m Yours is currently taking place, for the third year running, in Florence, South Carolina from 21 April – 7 May. Next up is Augsburg, Germany from 7 – 25 May, then Paris from 20 May – 11 July, Norfolk, Virginia from 23 May – 4 June, Grand Geneva from 14-27 June, and in Munich from 31 August – 17 September 2017.

For Bristol we have a crowdfunding campaign running to help bring the art project back to the city. Lets make this happen!

Making of Apollo Artwork

Working with the music of Philip Glass, Apollo is a new artwork being created to help spearhead the final stage of St George’s Bristol capital fundraising appeal.

The sound-wave sculpture, entitled Apollo (for the Greek God of music), will consist of approximately 100 hand-blown coloured glass roundels fused together to represent the rotated sound wave of the opening section of Philip Glass’ Etude No 2.

This dizzying film shows the making of the artwork and what happens when you attach a GoPro to a glassblowers punty. You also end up with a melted camera!

New Royal Liverpool University Hospital Commission

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals’ Organ Donation Committee and Royal Liverpool Dialysis Utilities Fund have awarded Luke Jerram the commission to create a Tribute ‘Donation and Transplant’ Artwork. The installation will be on display in the main reception area of the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital, the artwork is due to be unveiled when the new hospital opens. The artwork, will celebrate, remember and give thanks to the generosity of organ and tissue donors and their families.

The initial design for the artwork consists of a tower of glass etched with personal stories
from organ and tissue donors, recipients and their families. Visitors will be able to sit or stand inside the artwork to contemplate the stories and experience the infinite reflections created by the mirrored ceiling and floor.

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.