LUAP extends his practice into public space through Sculpture, Installation, Painting and architectural form. Moving beyond the studio allows ideas that often begin from personal experience to take on a different physical and social scale, while remaining connected to the psychological concerns that run throughout his work.
These projects are developed in relation to their setting rather than placed into it as isolated objects. Architecture, landscape, material and the ways people use a space can all influence the final work. The Pink Bear has shifted from image to monument, environment and inhabitable structure, creating encounters that move between familiarity and strangeness, visibility and introspection. The Pavilion is a particularly clear example, transforming a private recurring symbol into a space that people could physically enter and occupy.
Working publicly also changes who encounters the work and how. People may discover it as part of a street, park, festival or shared cultural space rather than by choosing to enter a gallery. For LUAP, that shift creates a way for ideas around memory, vulnerability, identity and connection to move from the personal into a collective experience.
Seeds of Change at the Winter Sculpture Park
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.
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.
LUAP features in Absolutely London’s preview of Kensington + Chelsea Art Week 2022, which highlights the return of The Pink Bear and a new immersive Installation at The Exhibitionist Hotel.
LUAP’s Good Vibrations Public Art Installation in Notting Hill is featured by Art Daily, exploring isolation, mental health and the restorative role of nature through the recurring figure of The Pink Bear.
LUAP’s Good Vibrations Public Art Installation takes over the former AllSaints storefront on Westbourne Grove, with Made In Shoreditch exploring the work’s relationship with mental health, isolation and connection.
LUAP’s KCAW High Street Windows Installation is selected by FAD Magazine as one of the top five outdoor artworks to see in London as lockdown restrictions begin to ease in March 2021.
LUAP’s Good Vibrations Public Art Installation on Westbourne Grove is featured by London Post, exploring mental health, isolation and the restorative role of nature through The Pink Bear.
LUAP’s Love Life, a 12 × 6 metre Pink Bear mural in Shoreditch, is featured by Inspiring City following the completion of his first large-scale painted work in the public realm.
LUAP is featured in Top Magazin following the creation of Recollection Of Innocence, a 6 × 4 metre Pink Bear Mural made for fashion boutique SKOG42 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
LUAP is featured by German culture magazine Regio Inka following the creation of Recollection Of Innocence, a large-scale Pink Bear Mural for fashion boutique SKOG42 in Karlsruhe.
