Studio News

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

‘Good Vibrations’ in Notting Hill

‘Good Vibrations’ in Notting Hill

The installation is part of HIGH STREET WINDOWS, a series of visual art commissions by Kensington and Chelsea Council.

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Love Life in Shoreditch

Love Life in Shoreditch

LUAP paints Love Life, a 12 × 6 m Mural on Batemans Row in Shoreditch, supported by Outside the Zone. The Pink Bear holds a skull with heart-shaped eyes, bringing mortality, choice and the value of time into one image.

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The Plastic Flood for Let’s Live With Less Plastic

The Plastic Flood for Let’s Live With Less Plastic

LUAP’s The Plastic Flood appears on digital billboards across the UK for Let’s Live With Less Plastic, curated by Tia Grazette for Plastic Free July. The Photography confronts the growing environmental cost of disposable plastic and waste. 

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Love Our NHS

Love Our NHS

After receiving emergency NHS treatment at the beginning of 2020, LUAP begins giving artworks directly to frontline workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Love Our NHS grows from a personal experience of care and a desire to return some of that support through art.

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Purple Star Light at Christie’s

Purple Star Light at Christie’s

LUAP donated Purple Star Light, a 60 × 40 cm C-Type Print mounted on Aluminium, to the 2019 Terrence Higgins Trust Auction at Christie’s. Photographed in New Zealand for I Used To Be A Polar Bear, the work marked his third consecutive year supporting the charity.

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Plastic Reality in Shepherd Market

Plastic Reality in Shepherd Market

LUAP presents Plastic Reality in Shepherd Market, Mayfair, a large-scale Intervention that turns The Pink Bear’s own artificiality back on the natural world. The work asks what happens when manufactured versions of nature become more familiar than the living things they imitate.

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72 Hours In Australia

72 Hours In Australia

72 hours in Australia sounds like a bonkers idea, but that’s what I ended up doing earlier this year.

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The Pink Bear at Holiday House London

The Pink Bear at Holiday House London

LUAP contributes a Pink Bear Print to the inaugural Holiday House London, supporting breast cancer research through an art auction run by Christie’s.

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Stick Um Up Exhibition

Stick Um Up Exhibition

Well Hung are delighted to announce a group ‘paste up’ exhibition with artists; A.CE, Ben Rider, Donk, Hin, Luap, My Dog Sighs, Pablo Delgado and Shuby. 

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LUAP Supports Holiday House London

LUAP Supports Holiday House London

LUAP supports the inaugural Holiday House London, bringing The Pink Bear into a major interior design showcase raising funds for breast cancer research. The cause has a personal significance following the loss of LUAP’s Nanna to breast cancer.

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Home Is A Feeling

Home Is A Feeling

LUAP creates Home Is A Feeling, a Public Art project supporting New Hope Animal Rescue and Furry Friends Animal Rescue. Featuring The Pink Bear with LUAP’s cat Nipper, the project brings together a large-scale Mural and limited-edition Prints to raise funds and awareness for animal welfare.

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Recollection Of Innocence for Street Children in Nepal

Recollection Of Innocence for Street Children in Nepal

LUAP revisits Recollection Of Innocence, originally created as a large-scale Mural in Germany, for a limited-edition scarf made with SKOG42 and Mala & Mad to support children in Nepal.

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