Self-Portraits 1990 - 1998
About this artwork
Lucas has been making self-portraits since 1990 and they are now one of the main themes in her work. In this photograph, as in all her self-portraits, Lucas looks confident and in control, staring straight into the camera. The two fried eggs on her chest are a crude parody of the female body. The artist has used a similar tactic in the objects she makes, representing body parts using everyday objects in a vulgar but also humorous manner, adopting and re-contextualising 'laddish' slang and innuendos.
Updated August 2022
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artist:Sarah LucasEnglish (born 1962)
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title:Self-Portraits 1990 - 1998
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date created:1999
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materials:Portfolio of twelve colour IRIS prints and one colophon page
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measurements:Each print: approximately 80.00 x 60.00 cm
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credit line:Presented by Sadie Coles HQ 2003
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accession number:GMA 4679
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Sarah Lucas
Sarah Lucas
Lucas was born in London and studied at Goldsmiths College, London. In the early 1990s she began using the Sunday Sport tabloid newspaper as source material, reproducing pages containing stories about sex scandals and sensationalistic photographs of naked women. In 1993 Lucas founded The Shop ...
