Sarah Lucas is an internationally celebrated artist known for the provocative use of materials and imagery in her work. Incorporating ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged our understandings of sex, class and gender over the last four decades.

Looking beyond the generation of 1990s Young British Artists during which Lucas emerged, this visually stunning exhibition book invites the public to marvel at the diversity of her work across sculpture, installation and photography. Featuring an artist interview with Louisa Buck, new texts by writers Lauren Elkin and Nathalie Olah and a new poem by the artist Cerith Wyn Evans, Happy Gas is a brash, tender and boundary-breaking exploration of what makes us human.

About the Author
Dominique Heyse-Moore is Senior Curator, Contemporary British Art, at Tate Britain. Louisa Buck is a writer and broadcaster. Since 1997, she has been the contemporary art columnist for The Art Newspaper, and is a regular reviewer on BBC radio and TV. She has authored catalogue essays for institutions including Tate and Whitechapel Gallery. Her books include Market Matters: The Dynamics of the Contemporary Art Market (Arts Council England 2004) and Commissioning Contemporary Art : A Handbook for Curators, Collectors and Artists (Thames & Hudson 2012). Nathalie Olah is a freelance journalist and editor. Her work has been published widely, including in Dazed, AnOther and the Times Literary Supplement. Her first book, Steal as Much as You Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity was published by Repeater Books in 2019. She is the author of Look Again: Class (2021) published by Tate Publishing. Lauren Elkin is a writer and translator, most recently the author of No. 91/92: a diary of a year on the bus and the UK translator of Simone de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. Flaneuse: Women Walk the City was a finalist for the 2018 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, a New York Times Editor's Choice and a Notable Books of 2017, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, and a best book of 2016 by the Guardian, the Financial Times, the New Statesman, and the Observer. It is being translated into nine languages. Amy Emmerson-Martin is Assistant Curator, Contemporary British Art, at Tate Britain.


Book Information
ISBN 9781849768535
Author Dominique Heyse-Moore
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Tate Publishing
Publisher Tate Publishing