Sarah Lucas valuation
Makes sculpture from furniture, fruit, tights and cigarettes, with a bawdy, deadpan humour about sex and Englishness.
Sarah Lucas was born in London in 1962, left school at sixteen, and studied at the Working Men's College, the London College of Printing and Goldsmiths College, graduating in 1987.
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Bio
Sarah Lucas was born in London in 1962, left school at sixteen, and studied at the Working Men's College, the London College of Printing and Goldsmiths College, graduating in 1987. She showed in Freeze, the 1988 exhibition that launched the Young British Artists, and her first solo exhibitions, in 1992, were The Whole Joke and Penis Nailed to a Board. Her work uses found objects and cheap materials, mattresses, buckets, melons, fried eggs and tabloid pages, to make visual puns about sex, gender and death, and her photographic self-portraits of the 1990s became emblems of the period. In 1993 she and Tracey Emin ran The Shop in east London for six months. She represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2015, and Tate Britain gave her a major exhibition in 2023.
Much of her work is sculpture and installation made from everyday or perishable things, so condition, completeness and whether perishable elements are meant to be replaced all matter. Photographs, editions and the stuffed-tights sculptures, the Bunnies and later the Nuds, come up most often, and provenance through her gallery is the usual history.
Freeze, The Shop and Venice
Her exhibition I SCREAM DADDIO filled the British Pavilion at the 2015 Biennale, its walls painted custard yellow.
Tate Liverpool gave her a first survey in 2005, the Whitechapel Gallery a retrospective in 2013, and the New Museum in New York her first American survey, Au Naturel, in 2018.
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