Luke Jerram Artist Statement

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. In 2022 alone he had 104 exhibitions in 25 different countries, visited by more than two million people.

The artwork, ‘Museum of Moon’, is one of Luke’s most successful arts projects which so far has been presented in different ways, more than 200 times in 30 different countries. Over a period of 7 months, 2.1 million people saw the artwork at the Natural History Museum in London, making it their most popular exhibition ever.

His celebrated street pianos installation ‘Play Me, I’m Yours’ was presented in over 70 cities and enjoyed by more than 10 million people worldwide. Launched by the French Minister of Culture in Paris and Mayor Bloomberg in NYC, the installation has received press coverage in almost every newspaper and television station around the globe. Luke has installed over 2000 street pianos, but his art project has also been copied by different 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 such as ‘Park and Slide’ a giant 90m water slide presented on Park Street in Bristol in May 2014. With 96,573 requests for a ‘ticket to slide’, more than 65,000 people came to watch on the day. It generated 350 news articles reaching more than 1 billion people around the globe.

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).

More: https://my-moon.org