Sarah Lucas’s cheeky sculptures bring light relief at Tate Britain

It was a mad previous evening in London city yesterday with a wealth of artwork events going down throughout the capital together with the non-public view for revered YBA Sarah Lucas at Tate Britain (Comfortable Fuel, till 14 January 2024). “Utilizing strange objects in surprising methods, she has persistently challenged our understanding of intercourse, class and gender over the past 4 a long time,” says the Tate web site. Visitors comparable to broadcaster Janet Avenue-Porter, Pet Store Boy Neil Tennant and artists Michael Landy and Richard Wright contemplated on Lucas’s daring sculptures comparable to Cnut (2004) and Sandwich (2011-20). The piece that will get folks speaking virtually immediately—positioned simply by the exhibition entrance—is Wanker (1999) comprising a mechanical arm jerking up and down delightedly, powered by a crude motor (a stream of onlookers appeared completely preoccupied with the tugging but transfixing limb). However there’s loads extra to savour within the Lucas fest together with the sensible backdrops involving a banana (simply pop alongside and see for your self).