Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations, live arts projects and gifts. Since his professional career as an artist began in 1997 Luke has created a number of extraordinary art projects which excite and inspire people around him. Currently working with a number of established arts institutions and organisations in the UK, new complex and ambitious arts projects are being developed in parallel with one another. Once born, these new projects will evolve and tour abroad. His celebrated street pianos installation ‘Play Me, I’m Yours’ is currently touring and being shown in different cities around the world.
Working with the ISVR (Institute of Sound and Vibration Research), University of Southampton, Jerram has just been awarded an £225K grant from EPRRC to design, build and tour his new artwork Resonance. Jerram is now a research fellow within the department.
Jerram’s ongoing research of perception is fuelled by the fact that he is colour-blind. He studies the qualities of space and perception in extreme locations, from the freezing forests of lapland to the sand dunes of the Sahara desert. New ways of seeing and new artworks emerge from these research field trips. Works such as ‘Retinal Memory Volume’, Sky Orchestra and his glass virus sculptures have emerged from Jerram exploring the edges of perception Published by The Watershed, ‘Art in Mind’ is a new book tracking much of Jerram’s perceptual research.
Fascinated with how the world works, this interest often leads Jerram to consult and collaborate with scientists and engineers. Working in partnerships with individuals and instituions he builds teams of specialists to make each work come into being. Working with a team of specialist glassblowers, Jerram’s microbiological glass sculptures are in numerous private collections around the globe and on permanent display at the Wellcome Collection, London and in Bristol City Museum. In 2007 Jerram won an Institute for Medical Imaging award for this work.
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