In 2010 Jerram won the coveted Rakow Award for this work and a fellowship at the Museum of Glass, Washington. They are also regularly displayed in Untitled Future Mutation (Photograph by Luke Jerram)View all articles in full from just £10 for 3 months.Keep up to date on the latest content here at Interalia Magazine, and receive exclusive content.You must be a subscriber and logged in to leave a comment. Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live arts projects. Watch Queue Queue Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live arts projects. The result is In order to create realistic sculptures, Jerram works in collaboration with virologists from the University of Bristol. In fact, viruses have no colour as they are smaller than the wavelength of light. In 2009, his sculptures were presented at The Mori Museum, Tokyo and in 2015 his sculptures were presented at ArtScience Museum, Singapore alongside Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus.The Glass Microbiology sculptures are in museum collections around the world, including The Metropolitan Museum, NYC, The Wellcome Collection, London and The Museum of Glass, Shanghai. Since 2004, he has been turning viruses and other pathogens into stunning glass sculptures, in an ongoing series titled "Glass Microbiology." We’ve all seen at some point brightly-colored illustrations of viruses, most likely the feared HIV or an alien-like bacteriophage. Users of a Site License are unable to comment. Fellowship at Museum of Glass, Washington. Jerram received an email from a person infected with HIV that read:Some of Luke Jerram’s pieces for Glass Microbiology are currently on exhibition at the If you liked this post and want to read more good journalism, support us by joining Labiotech Insider. Made to contemplate the global impact of each disease, the artworks are created as alternative representations of viruses to the artificially coloured imagery received through the media. Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live arts projects. Watch Queue Queue. Our Insider membership gives you access to exclusive content and other advantages.Do you want to join 10 000 subscribers who receive the hottest biotech news in their inbox every Friday (for free)?Labiotech.eu is the leading digital media covering the European Biotech industry. Imagination can sometimes be a little bit more colourful than reality. Living in the UK but working internationally for 18 years, Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the globe. He ... Glass Microbiology; Museum of the Moon; Park and Slide; Sky Orchestra; Tide; Maya; Withdrawn (2015) Selected awards. See these Photographs of Jerram’s glass artworks are now used widely in The sculptures are designed in consultation with virologists from the University of Bristol, using a combination of different scientific photographs and models. Most recently his giant installation Park and Slide caught the public’s imagination, creating 500 news stories reaching an estimated 1 billion people worldwide. H5N1 In 2004, artist Luke Jerram began a visually scientific sculpture series entitled Glass Microbiology.With help from both expert virologists and talented glassblowers, Jerram has created a collection of glass sculptures accurately depicting some of the most prevalent viruses out there, including HIV, malaria, and the swine flu (notoriously recognized in the 2009 flu pandemic). 01 November 2009. By extracting the colour from the imagery and creating jewel-like beautiful sculptures in glass, a complex tension has arisen between the artworks’ beauty and what they represent.His transparent and colourless glassworks consider how the artificial colouring of scientific microbiological imagery, affects our understanding of these phenomena.
By Luke Jerram. www.lukejerram.com They are made in collaboration with glassblowers Kim George, Brian Jones and Norman Veitch.Ev.71 – Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (Photograph by Luke Jerram)In 2010, Jerram received the 25th Rakow Award for the series from The Corning Museum of Glass, New York. Artist Luke Jerram is behind Glass Microbiology, a series of beautiful glass-blown microbes that are changing the way we perceive viruses and bacteria. Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary arts practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations, and live artworks. Since 2008 his celebrated street pianos installation ‘Play Me, I’m Yours’ has been presented in over 50 cities and been enjoyed by more than 10 million people around the world. In 2015 his sculptures were presented alongside the work of Leonardo da Vinci at the Artscience Museum, Singapore. He lives in the United Kingdom and creates work across the globe.
Or scarier. He is known worldwide for his large scale public artworks. These representations feed our imagination and help us understand the tiny but complex world of microbiology.In 2004, Jerram, who is based in Bristol, UK, came up with the idea of representing some of the deadliest pathogens in the world in a completely different way. Jerram’s sculptures are also respected in the scientific community with features in The Lancet, Scientific American, The BMJ and on the front cover of Nature Magazine.
Glass Microbiology is a collection of glass models of human viruses. Over 150,000 monthly visitors use it to keep an eye on the business and innovations in biotechnology. Art. Luke Jerram (born 1974) is a British installation artist. We’ve all seen at some point brightly-colored illustrations of viruses, most likely the feared HIV or an alien-like bacteriophage. View all Photos. Hope you'll enjoy reading our stories!Philip, Joachim and the growing team at Labiotech.eu"We are building the Next Generation of Digital Media for Biotech" Glass Microbiology by Luke Jerram. Apostolos Mitsios.