Sarah Lucas - Curious Orange

Publisher: Tate
Year: 2023
Format: Digital pigment print on Cialinen Beige canvas
Edition: Limited edition of 50, signed on front and numbered on back
Condition: New / Unframed
Size: 59.4 x 42 cm

Sarah Lucas - Curious Orange, 2023, a limited edition artwork produced on the occasion of the exhibition, Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas, at Tate Britain, 28 September 2023 – 14 January 2024.

Printed on Cialinen Beige canvas, Curious Orange, 2023, portrays a sculpture from Lucas’s long-term Bunny series which she first conceived in 1997 as an installation titled Bunny Gets Snookered. Eight ‘bunny girl’ sculptures made from pairs of tights stuffed with cotton wadding in figure-chair compositions were positioned around a snooker table, challenging gender stereotypes through a play on conventions of representation and framing. In Curious Orange, 2023, high-heeled shoes and orange stockings are positioned on limp and uninterested limbs. The sagging body, slouched across a bar stool with pointed breasts looking outwards with curiosity, provides a comic antithesis to her ‘bunny girl’ namesake and playfully critiques sexualised representation of the female form.