Luke Jerram
Artist/Craftsman Bristol / United Kingdom
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Luke Jerram's multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live arts projects. Living in the UK but working internationally since 1997, Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the world. Since his career began Jerram has had almost 1,000 exhibitions around the world.
Jerram creates artworks at all scales, that deliver messages and inspire communities to recognise often challenging concepts. With many of his latest artworks, including Gaia, Oil Fountain and This Way Forward, Jerram has been using his skills in visual communication to draw attention to planetary health.
With this in mind, Jerram designed his Floating Earth artwork to prompt the difficult discussions we all need to have about climate change and what we, as individuals and wider society, can do to make our lifestyles more sustainable. During its 2 week presentation in London, the artwork was visited by over 100,000 people each day – around 1 million people over the course of the exhibition!
The artwork Museum of the Moon is one of Jerram’s most successful projects to catch the public’s imagination, so far it has been presented in different ways, more than 350 times in 40 different countries. Experienced by more than 30 million people worldwide, the artwork has toured India with the British Council, been presented at the Commonwealth Games in Australia, Art Basel in Miami and exhibited in Aarhus, Denmark for the European Capital of Culture. Over 2 million people visited the artwork when it was presented at the Natural History Museum, making it one of their most popular exhibits ever!
Over the course of its 12-year tour, his celebrated street pianos installation Play Me, I’m Yours was presented in over 70 cities and has been enjoyed by more than 10 million people worldwide. Launched by the French Minister of Culture in Paris and Mayor Bloomberg in NYC, the installation received press coverage in almost every newspaper and television station around the globe. During this time, Jerram installed over 2,000 street pianos, but his project has also been copied by many organisations, creating a global movement of pianos being installed in public places for people to play. The concept has now become part of culture.
Jerram is known worldwide for his large-scale public engagement artworks. In 2014, Jerram’s giant installation Park and Slide made international headline news, creating 500 news stories reaching an estimated 1 billion people worldwide.
Jerram’s Glass Microbiology artworks are in museum collections around the world including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Shanghai Museum of Glass, Wellcome Collection (London) and Corning Museum of Glass (USA). Throughout 2020 his sculptures of Covid-19, were used by the worldwide press, to communicate the nature of the pandemic.
In 2019 he set up and funded both the Dreamtime Fellowship to support recent art graduates in his home city of Bristol and the Bristol School Arts Fund to support secondary schools impacted by austerity. In 2024 he set up the Jerram Foundation to help deliver some of these charitable projects.
Jerram lives in Bristol UK with his wife and two children.
Jerram creates artworks at all scales, that deliver messages and inspire communities to recognise often challenging concepts. With many of his latest artworks, including Gaia, Oil Fountain and This Way Forward, Jerram has been using his skills in visual communication to draw attention to planetary health.
With this in mind, Jerram designed his Floating Earth artwork to prompt the difficult discussions we all need to have about climate change and what we, as individuals and wider society, can do to make our lifestyles more sustainable. During its 2 week presentation in London, the artwork was visited by over 100,000 people each day – around 1 million people over the course of the exhibition!
The artwork Museum of the Moon is one of Jerram’s most successful projects to catch the public’s imagination, so far it has been presented in different ways, more than 350 times in 40 different countries. Experienced by more than 30 million people worldwide, the artwork has toured India with the British Council, been presented at the Commonwealth Games in Australia, Art Basel in Miami and exhibited in Aarhus, Denmark for the European Capital of Culture. Over 2 million people visited the artwork when it was presented at the Natural History Museum, making it one of their most popular exhibits ever!
Over the course of its 12-year tour, his celebrated street pianos installation Play Me, I’m Yours was presented in over 70 cities and has been enjoyed by more than 10 million people worldwide. Launched by the French Minister of Culture in Paris and Mayor Bloomberg in NYC, the installation received press coverage in almost every newspaper and television station around the globe. During this time, Jerram installed over 2,000 street pianos, but his project has also been copied by many organisations, creating a global movement of pianos being installed in public places for people to play. The concept has now become part of culture.
Jerram is known worldwide for his large-scale public engagement artworks. In 2014, Jerram’s giant installation Park and Slide made international headline news, creating 500 news stories reaching an estimated 1 billion people worldwide.
Jerram’s Glass Microbiology artworks are in museum collections around the world including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Shanghai Museum of Glass, Wellcome Collection (London) and Corning Museum of Glass (USA). Throughout 2020 his sculptures of Covid-19, were used by the worldwide press, to communicate the nature of the pandemic.
In 2019 he set up and funded both the Dreamtime Fellowship to support recent art graduates in his home city of Bristol and the Bristol School Arts Fund to support secondary schools impacted by austerity. In 2024 he set up the Jerram Foundation to help deliver some of these charitable projects.
Jerram lives in Bristol UK with his wife and two children.
Luke Jerram's multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live arts projects. Living in the UK but working internationally since 1997, Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the world. Since his career began Jerram has had almost 1,000 exhibitions around the world. Jerram creates artworks at all scales, that deliver messages and inspire communities to recognise often challenging concepts. With many of his latest artworks, including Gaia, Oil Fountain and This Way Forward, Jerram has been using his skills in visual communication to draw attention to planetary health. With this in mind, Jerram designed his Floating Earth artwork to prompt the difficult discussions we all need to have about climate change and what we, as individuals and wider society, can do to make our lifestyles more sustainable. During its 2 week presentation in London, the artwork was visited by over 100,000 people each day – around 1 million people over the course of the exhibition! The artwork Museum of the Moon is one of Jerram’s most successful projects to catch the public’s imagination, so far it has been presented in different ways, more than 350 times in 40 different countries. Experienced by more than 30 million people worldwide, the artwork has toured India with the British Council, been presented at the Commonwealth Games in Australia, Art Basel in Miami and exhibited in Aarhus, Denmark for the European Capital of Culture. Over 2 million people visited the artwork when it was presented at the Natural History Museum, making it one of their most popular exhibits ever! Over the course of its 12-year tour, his celebrated street pianos installation Play Me, I’m Yours was presented in over 70 cities and has been enjoyed by more than 10 million people worldwide. Launched by the French Minister of Culture in Paris and Mayor Bloomberg in NYC, the installation received press coverage in almost every newspaper and television station around the globe. During this time, Jerram installed over 2,000 street pianos, but his project has also been copied by many organisations, creating a global movement of pianos being installed in public places for people to play. The concept has now become part of culture. Jerram is known worldwide for his large-scale public engagement artworks. In 2014, Jerram’s giant installation Park and Slide made international headline news, creating 500 news stories reaching an estimated 1 billion people worldwide. Jerram’s Glass Microbiology artworks are in museum collections around the world including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Shanghai Museum of Glass, Wellcome Collection (London) and Corning Museum of Glass (USA). Throughout 2020 his sculptures of Covid-19, were used by the worldwide press, to communicate the nature of the pandemic. In 2019 he set up and funded both the Dreamtime Fellowship to support recent art graduates in his home city of Bristol and the Bristol School Arts Fund to support secondary schools impacted by austerity. In 2024 he set up the Jerram Foundation to help deliver some of these charitable projects. Jerram lives in Bristol UK with his wife and two children.