莎拉．卢卡斯1962年生于伦敦，曾就读学院包括伦敦工人学院(1982-3)、伦敦版画学院(1983-4)及伦敦金匠学院(1984-7)。现时在伦敦生活和工作。
卢卡斯的作品主要围绕性别这题材，创作媒介包括摄影、拼贴和雕塑，材料多从日常生活中选取。卢卡斯早年利用剪报作材料的作品如《钉在板上的阳具》(1991)，令她广受公众注目，此作在1992年伦敦南部城市竞赛画廊举办的首次个展中展出。这些作品，将英国文化令人不自在的一面直接展示人前。卢卡斯的另一着力之处，就是通过雕塑来呈现自我。她更常以简陋的物品如霓虹灯、家居用品和香烟等作她的创作素材。
「自我呈现」是卢卡斯作品的核心元素。《自拍像》包含了她在1990至98年间具代表性的作品。除了经常使用食物或日常物品来创作带隐喻的静态写照外，卢卡斯亦在每幅作品中制作可笑的场景来戏谑观众。她尤其喜欢玩弄性主题，不但要让观者重新审视自身对两性角色的看法，亦要揭示英式幽默里令人不安的一面。她的作品带有某种原始的能量和对抗性，常以滑稽的手法来模仿男性姿态。这种扭曲的幽默，能让观众可怒或可笑。
1988年达明安‧赫斯特策划了传奇展览「凝」，卢卡斯是参展者之一；1990年联合策划「东郊庭院展」，并展出其作品；1993年和翠西．艾敏创立了临时零售店「商铺」，专门售卖各样艺术品。她的作品亦曾在多处展出，包括「感觉：萨奇英国青年艺术家藏品」展(伦敦、柏林、纽约，1997-9)、威尼斯双年展（2003），以及「In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida」(泰特英国美术馆，伦敦，2004)。主要个展包括：莎迪．科尔斯 HQ画廊(伦敦，2000)；德克拉．色拉文化中心(巴塞罗那，2000)；当代美术博物馆 (柏林，2002)。2005年，在泰特利物浦美术馆举行主要作品回顾展。
Sarah Lucas was born in London in 1962. She attended the Working Men’s College, London, 1982-3, the London College of Printmaking, 1983-4, and Goldsmiths College, London, 1984-7. She lives and works in London.
Lucas’ work is centred around gender representation. Working across several media such as photography, collage and sculpture, she often uses everyday materials in her works. She first came to public attention through her use of newspaper cuttings from tabloid newspapers in iconic pieces such as Penis Nailed to a Board (1991) which she exhibited in her first solo show at City Racing, a gallery in South London in 1992. In these pieces she brought the public face to face with uncomfortable aspects of British culture. Another major interest is the extension of self-representation through sculpture. Lucas has often worked with humble materials including neon lights, domestic objects and cigarettes.
Her work is also very much based around self-representation. Her Self-Portrait Portfolio encapsulates many of the iconic works made during the period 1990-8, frequently using items of food or everyday objects as metaphoric still-lives. In each of these, she teases the viewer with comical situations. Playing on sexual themes, she reveals uncomfortable aspects of British humour in addition to asking the viewer to re-assess their judgment of gender roles. Her work always has a certain raw energy, it is confrontational as she often impersonates masculine poses with travesty and its wry sense of humour leaves the viewer both provoked and amused.
Lucas exhibited in Freeze, the legendary exhibition curated by Damien Hirst in 1988 and the East Country Yard Show, which she co-curated in 1990. In 1993 she set up The Shop with Tracey Emin, a temporary retail outlet selling art multiples. Her work was included in Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, London, Berlin and New York, 1997-9; Venice Biennale, 2003; In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Tate Britain, London, 2004. Selected solo exhibitions include: Sadie Coles HQ, London, 2000; Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona, 2000; Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, 2002. A major retrospective of her work was presented at Tate Liverpool in 2005.