Tag: Sarah Lucas

Meet Sarah Lucas (b. 1962, London), one of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary artists. Her multidisciplinary art, spanning sculpture, photography, and installations, embraces irreverent humor and everyday ‘readymade’ objects like furniture, food, tabloid newspapers, tights, toilets, and cigarettes, creating captivating corporeal fragments. The prevailing subject in Lucas’s art is the human body, explored in various forms. In the 1990s, she fearlessly placed herself at the core of her work through a series of photographic self-portraits, embodying vulnerability and attitude, a recurring theme in her subsequent art.

Discover Lucas’s art, a mesmerizing blend of materials like furniture, clothing, and food that evoke both sculpture and profound associations. Her masterful use of nylon tights, stuffed with wadding, transforms them into splayed limbs of female bodies, capturing intimacy and eroticism while preserving an element of cheap disposability.

Drawing inspiration from art history, Lucas cleverly incorporates toilet bowls, reminiscent of Duchamp’s iconic urinal, into her works – a seamless integration of the ready-made concept.

Intriguingly, her figures remain headless, with only the artist’s face appearing repeatedly through a sequence of captivating self-portraits. Stained mattresses and furniture act as unique plinths, juxtaposed against surreal domestic wallpapers.

Witness her latest series, ‘Penetralia,’ where flying penises merge with wood and flint, titled ‘Whand’ and ‘Druid,’ encapsulating a magical, holistic connection to nature. Lucas’s urban essence intertwines flawlessly with her newfound enchanting exploration.