Sarah Lucas: NUZ
Spirit of Ewe
04 March – 09 April 2011
Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand

Sarah Lucas is currently exhibiting an extensive body of work at Auckland’s Two Rooms gallery as part of the Auckland Arts Festival. Her exhibition NUZ is the culmination of a two-month residency in New Zealand. It combines works from her ongoing series of sculptures NUDS – stuffed tights fashioned into biomorphic forms – with new works responding directly to the landscape and history of New Zealand. The soft, convulsive forms of the NUDS sculptures have been interwoven with local objects including sheep’s skulls and teeth, and volcanic rocks. While echoing Lucas’s suggestive deployment of found objects in earlier works, these natural items also allude to the use of stone and animal bones in ancient Maori art. Other new works revisit familiar objects and materials such as concrete blocks and toilets: stuffed tights protrude fragmentarily from stacked breeze blocks, or snake viscerally in and out of a pair of toilet bowls.

As you can see in the image above, the artist has used images of Pepsi & Cocky, 2008, for her current exhibition at Two Rooms. Pepsi & Cocky was made specifically with our founders, Kenny Goss and George Michael, in mind. The work is now part of their permanent collection and can be viewed at The Goss-Michael Foundation. Check out her past exhibitions at GMF here.

Lucas has donated one of the works to the Christchurch earthquake appeal.
http://www.3news.co.nz/British-artist-donates-work-to-quake-appeal/tabid/312/articleID/200782/Default.aspx