Sarah Lucas's sculpture "ANGEL" features a tangled assemblage of black forms with a glossy finish, arranged on a wooden chair with metal legs. The forms resemble limbs and a torso, distorted and abstracted, wearing a high-heeled shoe, creating a striking interplay between organic curves and industrial components. The style is provocative and surreal, employing a mix of found objects to challenge traditional notions of the body. Emerging in the Young British Artists movement of the 1990s, Lucas often explores themes of gender and identity through irreverent and subversive sculptures. ...
Sadie Coles HQ is a London-based contemporary art gallery representing over sixty established and emerging international artists. The gallery opened in London in 1997, with its inaugural exhibition – of new paintings by American painter John Currin – presented in parallel with an offsite show by British artist Sarah Lucas, The Law. Since its inception, Sadie Coles HQ has operated from a variety of spaces, mounting numerous off-site projects and partaking in collaborative exchanges throughout the city and abroad. The gallery frequently hosts emerging young galleries and curatorial projects in The Shop at Kingly Street, and a live events programme titled GARGLE. In September 2013, Sadie Coles HQ opened a space at 62 Kingly Street in Soho, in April 2021 a space at 8 Bury Street in St James’s and in October 2025 a third space in Mayfair: a six-storey Georgian townhouse at 17 Savile Row. ...
