LUAP’s Murals extend his practice into architecture and the public realm, allowing imagery developed through Painting and Photography to operate at a different physical and social scale.
Each work responds to its setting, considering the character of the surrounding architecture, the history or identity of a place and the people who move through it. At this scale, the image becomes part of a shared environment, carrying ideas beyond the gallery and into everyday experience.
The Murals retain the psychological and surreal qualities of LUAP’s wider work while creating a more direct relationship with place and audience. They occupy a space between Fine Art, architecture and public encounter, using scale and context to give familiar imagery a new presence.
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BBC News features LUAP’s giant Pink Bear mural in Cleethorpes, where the familiar figure sits on the beach with a melting ice cream. LUAP returned to the area where he grew up, describing the project as nostalgic and made for the local community.
LUAP's latest creation, "Hope" graces Bateman’s Row in Shoreditch. This 12m x 6m mural depicts The Pink Bear slumped on a staircase, with a bouquet of flowers, and a blue background evoking a powerful sense of emotion.
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.
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.
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.
Home House commissions LUAP to create I ♥ Day Dreaming, an 8 × 4 m Mural for its private members’ club in Portman Square, London. The work brings one of the earliest Pink Bear photographs into the Georgian interior at architectural scale.
I was invited by the OXO Tower Brasserie to take over their gallery viewing gallery with my Pink Bear with the brief of creating something unlike anything they have seen in OXO before.
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.
LUAP creates Recollection Of Innocence, a large-scale Mural for SKOG42 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Developed from original Photography of The Pink Bear, the work combines halftone, pattern and layered paint across the store’s interior wall.
