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Luke Jerram's multidisciplinary arts practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live artworks. Living in the UK, but working internationally, Jerram creates art projects which excite and inspire people around the world.
Tipping Point
Luke has created a thrilling sound and light installation with composers Dan Jones and Simon Birch. It was presented at University of Bristol Botanic Gardens earlier this October. Tipping Point is a simulated forest fire combining smoke, lights, and sound to create a captivating affect, and raise critical awareness about banks investing our money in destroying forests.
Fallen Moon
Fallen Moon is a new touring artwork which recently landed in Bridgwater, UK. One child was seen running toward the docks shouting “The Moon’s fallen out of the sky!”
Created from NASA data, the sculpture is a giant 10m diameter replica of the Moon, presented on water. The artwork is 350,000 times smaller than the real Moon with each centimetre of the internally lit sculpture describing 3.5 km of the Moon’s surface. The installation is a fusion of lunar imagery, moonlight and surround sound composition created by BAFTA award winning composer Dan Jones.
Fallen Moon was presented in Bridgwater Docks, UK, 14 -20 October.
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 is now allocating funds, to deliver practical improvements in their community which will be implemented by the women’s group living there. Details TBA soon.