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Installation view of a sculpture of a human-like form made up of a cluster of many breasts and two long legs with long pink socks, sitting on a chair

Installation view of Project 1: Sarah Lucas featuring Sarah Lucas SUGAR, 2020, courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London © the artist

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'I think art should be amateur… It should be done for love. I’ve never seen art as a career – and I still don’t.'

Sarah Lucas

Sarah Lucas brings together recent bodies of work by one of England’s most influential and unapologetic artists.

Over the past 30 years, she has transformed everyday materials, such as vegetables, cigarettes and stockings through sculpture, photography and performance. The human body recurs in her practice as a site of potential desire and failure, exploring the ways in which gender and sexuality are performed.

Lucas is known for her use of crude and humorous imagery, and this exhibition explores the representation and experience of gender and confronts the realities of bodily existence. The exhibition features two recent sculpture series, including new works from the Bunny series she has been making since 1997. A new series of bronze sculptures depicts similar figures that incorporate both masculine and feminine elements, challenging gender stereotypes and humorously playing with conventions of representation.

Lucas’s sculptural work is exhibited alongside rarely seen images of the artist’s first self-portrait, Eating a Banana (1990), which will be reproduced to more than seven metres high – covering the exhibition walls from floor to ceiling.

Curator: Peter Johnson, Curator, Projects

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Sarah Lucas Eating a Banana, 1990, image courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London, © the artist

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Sarah Lucas Eating a Banana, 1990, image courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London, © the artist

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Sarah Lucas TITTIPUSSIDAD, 2018, image courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London, © the artist, photograph: Steve Russell Studios

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Sarah Lucas OOPS!, 2019, image courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London, © the artist,
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Sarah Lucas Eating a Banana, 1990, image courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London, © the artist

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Sarah Lucas DORA LALALA, 2020, image courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London, © the artist, photograph: Robert Glowacki

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Sarah Lucas DICK 'EAD, 2018 image courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London © the artist photograph: Steve Russell Studios

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Sarah Lucas, SUGAR, 2020, installation view, Project 1: Sarah Lucas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021 © the artist

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Sarah Lucas, TITTIPUSSIDAD, 2018, installation view, Project 1: Sarah Lucas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021 © the artist

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Sarah Lucas, ALICE COOPER, 2020, installation view, Project 1: Sarah Lucas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021 © the artist

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Installation view, Project 1: Sarah Lucas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021 © the artist

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Sarah Lucas, TITTIPUSSIDAD (detail), 2018, installation view, Project 1: Sarah Lucas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021 © the artist

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Sarah Lucas, ELF WARRIOR, 2018, installation view, Project 1: Sarah Lucas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021 © the artist

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Sarah Lucas, 2020, photo by Julian Simmons

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Slipping Through the Veil

Photograph of Sarah Lucas in front of her sculptures

Contemporary artist Sarah Lucas speaks with Project Curator Peter Johnson to reflect on the role of gender, sex and time in her witty works.

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Project 1: Sarah Lucas

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7 Aug 2021 – 18 Apr 2022

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