Marking 1 year since the UK’s first National Lockdown – which began on 23rd March 2020, Luke Jerram created this Giant Covid-19 glass sculpture.
Internationally-renowned artist Luke Jerram has created a Giant Covid-19, in tribute to the huge global scientific and medical effort to combat the pandemic. Made in glass, at 45cm in diameter, it is 6.3 million times larger than the actual virus.
Luke says: “Helping to communicate the form of the virus to the public, the artwork has been created
as an alternative representation to the artificially coloured imagery received through the media. In
fact, viruses have no colour as they are smaller than the wavelength of light.”
“This artwork is a tribute to the scientists and medical teams who are working collaboratively across
the world during this pandemic.”
Luke sold editions of the sculpture to museums internationally and raised over £55,000 for Medicine Sans Frontieres to help their work supporting communities impacted by the pandemic.
Made through a process of scientific glassblowing, the coronavirus model is based on the latest scientific understanding and diagrams of the virus.