Sarah Lucas and Tekla
Tit Brick Towel
£95
Limited edition Tekla towel
Edition Size
300
Dimensions
150 x 100 cm
Finishing
Lightweight 360 gsm 100% organic cotton, in a canvas bag
© Sarah Lucas. Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London. Portrait of Sarah Lucas (Framlingham, Suffolk, 2023). Photo Katie Morrison
About The Artwork
Generously produced in collaboration with Tekla, for this new limited edition towel, Lucas has used an image from her 'Tit Brick' series, first initiated in 2011. Here, the artist repurposes everyday materials that have become signature elements of her practice: a found, functional brick is combined with tights stuffed with kapok (the fluff found inside furniture), wrought into a suggestive biomorphic form. The disembodied breast simultaneously exudes a sense of the absurd and the allusive, heightened by their positioning on the brut industrial material.
About Sarah Lucas and Tekla
Sarah Lucas (b. 1962, London), who lives and works in Suffolk, studied at the Working Men’s College (1982–3), London College of Printing (1983–4), and Goldsmiths College (1984–7). She has exhibited internationally since coming to prominence in the 1990s with solo shows Penis Nailed to a Board, City Racing, London (1992) and The Whole Joke, Kingly Street, London (1992), followed by a presentation in 1993 at MoMA, New York. In 2005, a touring retrospective took place at Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunstverein Hamburg and Tate Liverpool. In addition, she curated the major group show BIG WOMEN, featuring the work of over 20 women artists at Firstsite, Colchester (2023).
Major solo exhibitions in the last decade have included Sense of Human, Kunsthalle Mannheim (2024); HAPPY GAS, Tate Britain, London (2023); Project 1: Sarah Lucas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2021); Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2019); the acclaimed mid-career retrospective Au Naturel, New Museum (2018, touring to Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2019); Sarah Lucas: Good Muse, Legion of Honor, San Francisco (2017); POWER IN WOMAN, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London (2016) and Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2017); I SCREAM DADDIO, British Pavilion, 56th Venice International Art Biennale (2015); Tramway, Glasgow (2014); NOB + Gelatin, Secession, Vienna (2013); and SITUATION Absolute Beach Man Rubble, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013).