LUAP’s Sculpture gives The Pink Bear a physical presence beyond the image, transforming a recurring psychological figure into something encountered through scale, material and space.
The works range from more intimate objects to monumental forms conceived in direct relationship with architecture, landscape and the movement of people around them. At larger scale, the familiar character becomes almost architectural, shifting between playfulness, vulnerability and a more imposing physical presence.
Rather than functioning as an isolated object, each Sculpture is considered in relation to its setting and the experience of those who encounter it. This allows the work to move naturally between gallery spaces, public environments and ambitious site-responsive projects, where Sculpture can become both an artwork and a defining presence within a place.
Tender Armour for Elephant Family’s Big Egg Hunt
Tender Armour explores vulnerability and protection through The Pink Bear. Created for Elephant Family’s Big Egg Hunt 2025, the Sculpture was first shown at Battersea Power Station before being presented at Kew Gardens, where it was viewed by Their Majesties The King and Queen.
Seeds of Change brings together Soft & Fragile, a three-metre inflatable head of The Pink Bear, and dozens of hand-cast Seed Heads at Winter Sculpture Park 2025 in Thamesmead, London. The project is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
FLO London speaks with LUAP about the development of The Pink Bear and a practice spanning Painting, Photography, Sculpture and travel, following the launch of the four-metre Pink Bear Pavilion in Hamburg.
€250,000 in scholarships announced by British artist LUAP through landmark collaboration with the University of Europe for Applied Sciences alongside public sculpture - The Pink Bear Pavilion
GUS Germany covers the launch of LUAP’s Pink Bear Pavilion at Altonale 2024 in Hamburg, a four-metre walk-in Sculpture created with the University of Europe for Applied Sciences and presented at Altonaler Balkon.
Hamburger Abendblatt covers the arrival of The Pink Bear Pavilion at Altonaler Balkon for Altonale 2024, describing LUAP’s four-metre, walk-in Sculpture as one of the festival weekend’s most visible new landmarks.
Trebuchet follows The Pink Bear Pavilion from its development through to its installation at Altonaler Balkon in Hamburg, with two features by Sean Keenan examining the four-metre Sculpture, its construction and the personal history behind The Pink Bear.
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.
I Used To Be A Polar Bear,
2023,
Reclaimed Christmas Trees, Artificial Grass, Plush, Steel, Fibreglass, Plastic, Acrylic and atmospheric smoke,
20m x 20m,
Sculpture
LUAP’s Causality is featured by Homes & Gardens in its September 2013 issue, highlighting the rusted steel work from his Decadence series as part of a wider interest in metal within contemporary garden design.
LUAP’s Decadence series is featured by Creative Times during Descending the Staircase, focusing on the collaboration and industrial processes used to translate his recurring wallpaper pattern into metal.
LUAP’s Causality is featured by fine art framers John Jones after the studio developed its first purpose-built outdoor frame for the large-scale steel Sculpture from the Decadence series.
