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Loki, whose first pieces popped up last summer, placed a collection of lifesize plaster cast figures on Ulverston’s Tank Square roundabout on Monday night.
The guerrilla artist has also painted a new set of characteristically striking pictures, mainly in black and white with pops of colour, which have appeared in the town.
Ulverston resident, Jennie Dennett, speaks on behalf of the Up for Arts Cumbria group, which provides a networking area for the county’s creatives.
Of the latest of Loki’s installations, she said: “I spotted them walking the kids to school and there was a great reaction from everyone passing by.
“They were all pausing to marvel at these strange white figures lounging on the roundabout.
“It’s great for Ulverston to have exciting public art popping up like this, it creates a buzz about the place and makes life just that bit more interesting.”
Loki’s works, which are now featured on a new Facebook page dedicated to the artist, have divided opinion in the past.
The first one created last June – a six-foot painting of a human skull daubed on a board above a doorway in Brewery Street – was described by some as menacing, while others considered it to be a well-executed work of art.
Pieces continued to appear around Ulverston throughout August last year, leading to a call for the town’s residents to have their say on the work.
Ulverston Community Partnership, a sub-committee of Ulverston Town Council, found its members’ opinions to be divided, so the group went in search of the public’s views to help them decide if the works were creative or criminal.
Committee member, Councillor Judy Pickthall, was chairwoman of the group at the time the appeal was launched.
She said: “All the feedback we had was that people thought they contributed to Ulverston and visitors would be intrigued by them; that they made the place more interesting to be in and that they fit in with what’s special about Ulverston.
“We’ve not heard anybody say that the new works are anything other than a credit to the town and to whoever has created them. I think they’re beautiful.
“When you’re approaching the roundabout and you see one sculpture, then two, then three, you can’t believe your eyes when you see the fourth; that someone could come along during the middle of the night and do all that.
“It’s wonderful. Whoever has done this has done more about promoting the town than anyone else put together.”
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