Festival of the Moon

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 2 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 and This Way Forward, Jerram has been using his skills in visual communication to draw attention to planetary health.

With this in mind, Luke designed his Floating Earth artwork to prompt the difficult discussions we all need to have about climate change and what we, as individuals and wider society, can do to make our lifestyles more sustainable. During its 2 week presentation in London, the artwork was visited by over 100,000 people each day – around 1 million people over the course of the exhibition!

The artwork 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!