Mars: War and Peace - About the Artist
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 several extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the world. In 2023 alone, he had over 115 exhibitions in 27 different countries, visited by more than 3 million people. Luke 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 This Way Forward, Jerram has been using his skills in visual communication to draw attention to planetary health.
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Museum of the Moon is one of Luke’s most successful projects to catch the public’s imagination, so far it has been presented in different ways, more than 300 times in 30 different countries. Experienced by more than 20 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 National History Museum, making it one of their most popular exhibits ever!
Over the course of its 12-year tour, his celebrated street pianos installation 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, Luke 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 idea for Play Me I’m Yours has now become part of contemporary culture with street pianos found in most cities around the globe. Jerram is known worldwide for his large-scale public engagement artworks.
In 2014, Luke’s giant installation Park and Slide made international headline news, creating 500 news stories reaching an estimated 1 billion people worldwide. G lass 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.
Luke Jerram lives in Bristol UK with his wife and two children.
Mars: War and Peace by Luke Jerram comes to Truro Cathedral between 13 October-2 November 2025. Receive updates about Mars and surrounding events by signing up to the Truro Cathedral mailing list:
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