Self Portrait with Fried Eggs – Sarah Lucas

Published 06 March 2020

Sarah Lucas’s portrayals of men and women have a strong sense of humour and they challenge sexual stereotypes and conventional morals. In ‘Self Portrait with Fried Eggs’, Sarah Lucas poses in a provocative position, looking back at the viewer with a confrontational stare. Two fried eggs have been placed over her breasts, acting as a crude parody of the female body.

Lucas often explores the ways masculine and feminine qualities can co-exist in her self-portraits, questioning the gender stereotyping that exists in popular culture. The cigarettes in the lower left allude to a sense of recklessness and feature more prominently in Lucas’s iconic self-portrait ‘Fighting Fire with Fire’, also made in 1996.