LUAP completes a major new commission for Berkeley at Camden Goods Yard, London
LUAP has completed Princess Road, a new 250 × 310 cm oil and acrylic painting commissioned by Berkeley for The Regency Club at Camden Goods Yard, London.
Developed specifically for the site, the painting responds to the scale, architecture and social character of The Regency Club while remaining rooted in LUAP’s wider practice. The commission provided an opportunity to create a work with its own emotional presence within a space designed for people to gather, meet and spend time together.
At its centre is The Pink Bear, LUAP’s recurring alter ego and emotional cipher, surrounded by figures brought together through music and movement.
Princess Road explores the different lengths of time people remain in our lives. Some relationships endure. Others exist only briefly, through a conversation, a song, an evening or a chance encounter.
Their brevity does not make them insignificant.
For LUAP, these moments become part of the way memory is formed. A person may remain present for years or disappear almost immediately, yet the experience can continue to occupy an emotional space long afterwards.
The Pink Bear sits within the gathering as both participant and observer. Surrounded by people, yet somehow separate, it reflects the tension between connection and solitude that runs through much of LUAP’s work.
There is celebration within the painting, but also an awareness that the moment cannot last. The figures have come together briefly before moving on, leaving the experience to become memory.
Painted entirely by hand in oil and acrylic, Princess Road combines carefully rendered passages with looser areas of paint, gesture and texture. At more than three metres wide, the scale gives the work a physical presence while allowing smaller interactions and details to reveal themselves gradually.
Princess Road captures a moment of connection before it passes.
A reminder that something does not have to last forever to have mattered.
