Statement
Alastair Laas is an artist who explores what happens when big industries put profit before people. He works with sculpture, drawing, performance, and film to show how businesses normalise harmful things. Through a fictional brand, he features the deeper problems behind Western culture.
His artworks often feature characters like exhausted workers, overworked mascots, and people forced to pretend everything is fine. These figures highlight the pressure many feel to perform and produce, even when struggling.
Alastair’s work is shaped by his own experience in commercial industries and living with chronic illness. He asks: What’s left of our spirit in a world that wears us down? And how can we protect what makes us human in systems that treat people as disposable?
Through his art, he challenges how power works — and seeks to restore care, dignity, and emotional depth to our shared culture.