Sun Bathing

Helios has just been installed in Jubilee Pool as a fundraiser to support this community led swimming pool in Bristol. Funds raised from this event will go towards repairing the roof and helping to install solar panels, supporting the pool’s long-term sustainability.

Open for the public to swim beneath, or spectate, until 8th February.

Read more about it in the Independent.

Bristol School Arts Fund

The 2026 round of the Bristol School Arts Fund is now open! The deadline to apply is 12th March.

Since 2020 Jerram Foundation has awarded over £60,000 of funding to secondary schools across Bristol to spend on; materials, trips to exhibitions, high-quality equipment and visiting-artist workshops. As a consequence of the Bristol School Arts Fund, grades have been shown to have improved and numbers of students studying arts in the schools has increased!

Details have been emailed to all eligible schools. If you haven’t received them, but think you should have, please contact: studio@lukejerram.com

Mirror Moon

Throughout history the moon has inspired artists, poets, scientists, writers, and musicians the world over. 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.

The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, have commissioned a 2 metre diameter Mirror Moon which will be revealed in March 2026. Read their interview with Luke here.

Echo Wood

Echo Wood is a landmark collaboration between artist Luke Jerram and charity Avon Needs Trees. It is a breathtaking new artwork made from 365 living trees.

Planted this winter, the native trees will slowly grow into a vast 110-metre-wide design.  Blossoming at different times of year, pathways and avenues will be created to guide visitors on a journey through the forest towards a central circular gathering space, formed from 12 English oak trees. Echo Wood will take a century to fully emerge – but will endure for generations. Find out more.

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 was visited by over 100,000 people when it toured National Trust properties this summer. Over 85,000 people visited Helios whilst it was in Liverpool Cathedral, 28,000 when ist came to Bristol Cathedral and 46,000 people came to see the artwork at the Old Royal Naval College.