About this artwork
Artist Sarah Lucas poses here outside a public toilet, dressed in a pinstripe suit jacket. The huge salmon draped over her shoulder is an overt symbol of masculine power and dominance, although it is countered in this image by such abject surroundings. Together with the title, the inclusion of a large fish plays on sexualised terminology relating to the idea of a female erection. Lucas has regularly used food to represent sexual body parts in her work, often as a means of exposing gender clichés and stereotyping.
Updated August 2022
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artist:Sarah Lucas (born 1962) English
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title:Got a Salmon On #3
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date created:1997
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materials:Colour IRIS print
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measurements:74.00 x 50.00 cm (paper 76.20 x 56.30 cm)
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credit line:Presented by Sadie Coles HQ, 2003
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accession number:GMA 4679 J
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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 ...