Studio News

Updates from LUAP’s studio, including new works, exhibitions, commissions, public art and collaborations.

Bring Your Light at Bow Arts

Chila Burman selects LUAP’s Light And Warmth for Bring Your Light, the Bow Open 2023 at Bow Arts. The Painting explores fire as a source of warmth, connection and psychological calm through LUAP’s longstanding fascination with the hypnotic movement of flame.

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Storytellers Museum Group Exhibition

Storytellers is a captivating group exhibition that celebrates the profound connection between art and storytelling.

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My Head Feels Clear When I Am Outside at Winter Sculpture Park

LUAP presents My Head Feels Clear When I Am Outside at Gallery No.32’s Winter Sculpture Park in Bexley. The 2.4 × 2.4 metre work is his first large-scale Pink Bear head and first outdoor Sculpture, extending the figure from image and object into the landscape.

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Trees Are For Life, Not Just For Christmas

LUAP, Wapp Art and Niya Ruseva present Trees Are For Life, Not Just For Christmas, transforming a concrete space in Wapping into a temporary forest of discarded Christmas trees. As the trees dry and change, the Installation extends their presence beyond the brief celebration for which they were cut.

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Self Incarceration

LUAP presents Self Incarceration, developed during a Residency inside a former police station in Hampstead. The Installation explores human caged potential and how fear, trauma and our own feelings can incarcerate us even when the possibility of escape remains open.

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Me, My Brain & I at Piccadilly Lights and Christie’s

LUAP creates Mind & Body for Me, My Brain & I, a fundraising project for Parkinson’s UK spanning Koppel X, Piccadilly Lights and Christie’s. The Sculpture explores the fragile connection between our psychological and physical selves, and the contradictions between vulnerability and strength.

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The Mongolian Wilderness

In my most recent adventure, I embarked on a journey across Mongolia that spanned 10 days, all on horseback, with the sole purpose of capturing new photographic artworks featuring The Pink Bear. This remote and uninhabited landscape, steeped in tradition yet facing the encroachment of modernity, served as the perfect backdrop for my mission.

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C'est Ne Pas Banana

LUAP paints C'est Ne Pas Banana, a 3 × 3 metre Public Art Intervention in Notting Hill. The Pink Bear appears eating a banana, playing with an everyday object that has acquired an unusually persistent place within art and popular culture.

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The Unconscious Therapy - New Bond Street

A Solo Exhibition By LUAP

Curated by MC Llamas

13 OCTOBER 2021- 17 October 2021

Extended till 31 October 2021

95 New Bond Street - London

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Time Can Escape You at The Factory Project

LUAP presents Time Can Escape You in Gallery No.32’s Between Frames at The Factory Project during Frieze Week 2021. Across a sequence of reclaimed doors, The Pink Bear moves through successive moments as a bouquet is gradually scattered by the wind.

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Nature and Nurture At 95 New Bond Street

Personal growth sometimes comes from reflection and looking backwards - but we should aim to move forward with positive energy

Art in the Age of Now at Fulham Town Hall

Fulham Town Hall opens its doors to the public in May 2021 for the first time in a decade. For Art in the Age of Now, LUAP is given an open brief and a former holding cell in the basement, using the building itself as the starting point for a new sculptural Installation.

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