Sarah Lucas graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1987, and participated in Damien Hirst's 'Freeze' show in 1988. Her sculptures are intended to provoke and amuse with their rough-hewn aesthetic and visual puns that examine gender in a tabloid-orientated society.

In the early 19990's, Lucas began using the Sunday Sport newspaper as source material, recontextualising its splashes on outrageous sex scandals and sensationalistic photographs of naked women. Her first solo show was at City Racing, London, in 1992, was provocatively titled 'Penis Nailed to a Board'. The following year she participated in the 'Young British Artist II' show at the Saatchi Gallery, London. As well as setting up The Shop - an art multiples shop that she ran for six months with fellow artist Tracey Emin.

Lucas often incorporates her own image into her work. She has made large-scale photographs and mobiles of herself as a self conscious androgynous poseur. Along with her choice of everyday materials, Lucas also employs slang as part of her artistic vernacular. For Two fried eggs and a Kebab (1992) she arranged the title's ingredients on top of a wooden table to represent a woman's breasts and genitalia, with a photograph of the work as its face. Whether it be profane or aggressive, Lucas's work is always undercut by a wry humour, as she consistently challenges our trash culture sensibilities.

In 1996 Lucas had a solo exhibition at the Museum Boymans-van Beunningen in Rotterdam, and was the subject of the BBC documentary Two Melons and a Stinking Fish. In 1997 she had a one-person show entitled 'The Law' with Sadie Coles HQ in London.