Already garnering substantial press from the Guardian, The Scientist and The Independent, Studio Resident Luke Jerram has now been put on the front page of wired.com. Luke, who is best described as an artist, inventor, researcher and amateur scientist, works in wide range of multidisciplinary practice. His most recent projects include live art projects, installations and sculpture. In Bristol Luke is probably best know for Play Me I’m Yours in which he placed so called street pianos all over Bristol and had the city creating its own summer soundtrack. 

In Glass Microbiology - the piece, wired.com choose for their lead article - Luke turns the world’s deadliest diseases into works of art. The transparent glass sculptures, which include smallpox, SARS, H1N1 and HIV, were designed in consultation with virologists from the University of Bristol using a combination of different scientific photographs and models. Glass Microbiology explores the tension between the viruses’ devastating beauty and their devastating impact on humanity.

Read full article at: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/pl_playlist_1712/

Check out Luke's website: http://www.lukejerram.com/

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