'Tits in Space'
Wallpaper
Sarah Lucas (born 1962)
The Archive Printing Company Ltd
England
2000
Ink on paper
Museum no. E.832-2000
© Sarah Lucas, Courtesy of Sadie Coles HQ, London

Sarah Lucas is one of the so-called Young British Artists who found fame in the early 1990s through work in various media which played with aspects of popular culture images that were bold, vulgar and often confrontational. This wallpaper, an unused roll with a design of balls covered in a 'skin' of cigarettes, repeated on a black ground was designed by Lucas and first used as the backdrop to an exhibition of her work entitled 'The Fag Show' at the London gallery Sadie Coles' HQ. Since the late 1980s a number of contemporary artists have made wallpaper for exhibitions and installations because it works so well as visual shorthand to suggest 'domestic space' in the gallery setting.