This piece is reminiscent of an earlier mobile bar created by Lowe and Thomson for the Royal Academy Galleries Show in London in 2002. The following year the frequent collaborators were joined by Lucas for their group exhibition, ‘The Temple of Bacchus’. Here the idea of the mobile bar was revisited, resulting in ‘The Yard Ape’. The work is a replica of a corner of a traditional London pub, except that it is set on wheels. The bar contains all the objects associated with a traditional pub, complete with working optics and grubby ashtrays. In its frank realism, the work employs humour to parody the everyday stereotypes and clichés that we are constantly surrounded by, and perhaps suggests that transcendence is now as likely to be achieved through the bottle as through art.