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.
15 March 2018 • Mark Westall
NEON / LIGHT is a new exhibition opening next week featuring sculpture by Cerith Wyn Evans, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Peter Saville and Brian Eno. The show explores the use of light, predominantly neon, as a tool for text, image and planes of colour, often seductive but frequently disguising a more sinister narrative.
10 April 2016 • Tabish Khan
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week.
6 April 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
There seem to be a recent convocation on the subject of breasts for eyes.
11 March 2016 • Mark Westall
POWER IN WOMAN is an exhibition by British artist Sarah Lucas.
11 March 2016 • Mark Westall
Sarah Lucas’s Father Time (2011) is one of her largest sculptures to date.
11 December 2015 • Mark Westall
Great Works, a new scheme from The Contemporary Art Society (CAS) was launched today at Anthony Gormley’s Studio in Kings Cross..
16 October 2015 • daniel barnes
At this point in Frieze – that’s three days in for paupers, and five days for the elite – it is customary to begin to round up the highlights and to deliver a critical judgement.
19 June 2015 • daniel barnes
But it was also about how much money you could throw at art until art died.
21 May 2015 • Mark Westall
I thought a bit about whether I’m a feminist, as it’s something that often comes up. It will certainly be… Read More
13 May 2015 • Lee Sharrock
Arriving in Venice for the vernissage days whilst elections were in full swing, I was surprised to be confronted by a politically charged Biennale. Colonialism, Capitalism, Socialism, contemporary slavery and migration were some of the themes running through the 56th Edition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opened not long after a period of several weeks during which more than 1,800 migrants – many of them African – drowned whilst attempting to flee across the Mediterranean to Europe..
10 May 2015 • Staff
There’s an awful lot of fretting about the state of the world in the Biennale’s 88 national pavilions, but little power, wit or bravado
8 May 2015 • daniel barnes
Let’s take a moment to congratulate Sarah Lucas on being one of the best artists alive.
2 May 2015 • Mark Westall
There was a party atmosphere last night at the Zabludowicz Collection, celebrating their 20 years. The well healed mixed happily with young artists who were mostly milling around the bar and the food van. Inside we were treated to some highlights from the collection, we had important pieces by Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Damian Hirst, Maria Lassnig, Sigmar Polke, Martin Creed and Rachel Whiteread.
19 February 2015 • Staff
Rack ‘em up: British Contemporary Editions, 1990 – 2000 focusses on editions produced by the so-called YBA generation of artists. The survey, the first of its kind ever staged, brings together works by all of the leading figures of the period, including Keith Coventry, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Gavin Turk, and seeks to capture the irreverent and exuberant flavour of the era.
18 February 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Wallpaper may suggest stifling domesticity rather than cutting edge art but two artists are currently using it to radical effect.
16 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Some of Goldsmiths’ ex artists including Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Julian Opie, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Steve McQueen! have donated works to a special Christie’s auction in aid of raising money to build a new gallery at Goldsmiths, University of London.
11 December 2014 • Staff
Collectable windscreen art for your car
31 August 2014 • Staff
Pace London’s summer group show is curated around the theme of food. Flavoured with humour and a pinch of salt, the theme is a blatant response to the explosion of food imagery in social media, television and publishing.
9 June 2014 • Mark Westall
The Threadneedle Prize has just announced the eight artists that have been selected
8 April 2014 • Mark Westall
Sarah Lucas Furniture Launches at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano
14 March 2014 • Mark Westall
Idris Khan Gillian-Wearing Wolfgang Tillmans Art on the Underground is set to launch its first ever pop-up retail space at… Read More
9 December 2013 • Mark Westall
Nature Morte : Contemporary artists reinvigorate the Still-Life tradition is a daring, convincing and completely on-point collection of modern still-life that features both canonical and lesser-known artists alongside several that have recently exhibited in London; Sarah Lucas, Clare Tworney and Robert Gober.
4 November 2013 • Mark Westall
Racy imagery, tongue-in-cheek euphemisms, feminist interpretations and breath-taking sexualistion of everyday objects in Lucas’ work, is all brought together in a stunning retrospective of her entire collection, enabling “Situation” to bring something to the table for every visitor.
14 June 2013 • VC Maurer
The book includes an exploration of the concept of Future Feminism, asking how we can move forward and unite different voices and generations to create an inspiring dialogue.
