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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jamie Grierson

The artist Luke Jerram on the tree-planting project he’ll never see finished

Luke Jerram holding a model of a tree
Luke Jerram, now 50, says he is starting to think about legacy projects. ‘There’s something quite nice about projecting yourself into a future,’ he adds. Photograph: Alexander Turner/The Guardian

Luke Jerram, whose art installations have travelled the world, is philosophical about his latest project bearing fruit beyond his time on Earth.

Known for his Play Me I’m Yours street pianos project and his Museum of the Moon artwork – a seven-metre diameter sculpture of the moon featuring detailed Nasa imagery of the lunar surface – Jerram is now working on Echo Wood, a living, breathing installation made of native British trees.

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