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Tate Britain Exhibition

Sarah Lucas Happy Gas

28 September 2023 – 14 January 2024

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Seated Sarah Lucas sculpture on a square red plinth

Sarah Lucas COOL CHICK BABY 2020 Collection of Alexander V. Petalas © Sarah Lucas. Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ. Photo: Robert Glowacki.

A British artist's brash and tender exploration of what makes us human

Sarah Lucas is internationally celebrated for her bold and provocative use of materials and imagery.

Using ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged our understanding of sex, class and gender over the last four decades.

This exhibition presents her practice in all its diversity across sculpture, installation and photography, narrated in her voice, and looking well beyond the 1990s Young British Art world.

Breaking boundaries with humour and daring, Lucas shows us the whole spectrum of what it means to be human.

Photograph of Sarah Lucas stood in front of the gate of a public men's lavatory holding a salmon fish against her body as if slung over her left shoulder.

Sarah Lucas Got A Salmon On #1 1997 © Sarah Lucas

Seated Sarah Lucas sculpture wearing pink platform boots on a square orange plinth

Sarah Lucas HONEY PIE 2020 Collection Frank Gallipoli © Sarah Lucas. Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ. Photo: Robert Glowacki.

Sculpture of a dishevelled leather sofa with a long, thin fluorescent light piercing through the middle of one of the cushions on it's side in the centre with a wall light on one-side

Sarah Lucas Donkey Kong Diddle-Eye 2000 Courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London © Sarah Lucas

Seated Sarah Lucas sculpture on a square turquoise plinth

Sarah Lucas SUGAR 2020 Sadie Cole HQ (London, UK) © Sarah Lucas

Photograph of Sarah Lucas in motion surrounded by swirls of smoke on a red background

Sarah Lucas Red Sky Cah 2018 © Sarah Lucas

Seated Sarah Lucas sculpture

Sarah Lucas Bunny 1997 Private Collection © Sarah Lucas. Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ.

Sarah Lucas Inferno 2000 © Sarah Lucas. Presented as part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift 2023

Our exhibition guide explores the exhibition room by room.

Need a bigger font size of the exhibition guide? Download the large print guide [0.29MB]

Tate Britain's step-free entrance is on Atterbury Street. It has automatic sliding doors and there is a ramp down to the entrance with central handrails.

The Exhibition is on the Main floor of the gallery. There is a lift to the main floor, or alternatively you can take the stairs

  • Accessible, standard and Changing Places toilets are located on the Lower floor.
  • Ear defenders can be borrowed from the ticket desk on the Lower floor.

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Dates

28 September 2023 – 14 January 2024

  • Advance booking is recommended
  • Members enjoy free entry – no need to book, just turn up with your card
  • Open until 22.00 for Late at Tate Britain

Content guidance: This exhibition contains references to sexual activity, and explicit and discriminatory language. It also includes a reference to suicide.

Supported by

With additional support from

The Sarah Lucas Exhibition Supporters Circle

Shane Akeroyd

The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation

Sue & Beau Wrigley

Henrik Kielland, Hartfield Foundation

Sadie Coles HQ

Contemporary Fine Arts Galerie GmbH

Gladstone Gallery

Dr Paul Ettlinger

The Sarah Lucas Fried Egg Breakfast Club

Tate Americas Foundation

Tate International Council

and Tate Patrons

*****

Intoxicating

Evening Standard
****

Gloriously filthy

The Guardian
****

Funny, shocking and, genuinely, deeply insightful

Timeout
*****

Her ability to provoke us, amuse us and surprise us is sharper than ever

Evening Standard
****

Stirring, affecting, poignant

The Times

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