LUAP is profiled by The PhotoPhore in an early feature exploring the personal memories, visual references and psychological ideas that were beginning to define The Pink Bear within his wider practice.
The feature traces LUAP’s use of memories, family history and familiar childhood imagery, focusing on The Pink Bear as an alter ego rather than simply a figure in costume. Originating in a family photograph from the 1980s, the character moves between childhood playfulness and the more complex emotional territory of adulthood, surrounded by the distressed and abstract surfaces that were becoming central to LUAP’s Painting.
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Pink Bear by Paul Robinson
The PhotoPhore, 2015
