The Wick are big advocates of mental health awareness as many readers know – and we love this new LUAP project curated by Guerin Projects in partnership with Nikon, which will see a portion of proceeds donated to mental health charity Mind.

Life Lines brings together sixteen large-scale works by the artist, with a dramatic departure from his typical style: photorealism oil paintings mixed with abstraction exploring themes of mental health and self-perception, and evoking the fragmented nature of identity in the contemporary age.

LUAP’s new body of work has been three years in the making. He worked with sitters as they shared their stories with the artist, painting them in his abstract brushwork to deeply emotive effect.

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The Wick Culture - Rachel Jones, Gated Canyons, 2024. Photography by Eva Herzog
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Viewing Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons at Dulwich Picture Gallery

The Wick Culture - Gabriele Beveridge Stem, Hand-blown glass, 2025
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Viewing Self-Similar at Paul Smith Space

The Wick Culture - ‘The Start of the Story’ (Northamptonshire), 2022
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Viewing Nancy Cadogan: The Lost Trees at The Garden Museum

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