Sam Lucas: Selected works, 2018-2024
Same Same but Different – AWARD, British Ceramics Biennial, 2019
Sam’s forms are conversation pieces with dark humorous undertones, exploring how displacement is not only geographical but also an experience within one’s own skin. Drawing from personal experience and observations of others, Lucas investigates these ideas while celebrating the humor and beauty of diversity.
Taste Contemporary at Art Genève, 2020
Lucas’s work explores and expresses the weight and awkwardness of being within the body. She utilizes the clay body and glazes through form, surface, and scale, with material properties that emulate emotional states on the skin—such as clamminess, goosebumps, or tension—reflecting responses to social situations, anxiety, or uncertainty. More recently, Lucas has incorporated materials like textile and steel, further exploring the notion of being hidden and contained.
Strange Stranger, 2018-2019
Sam Lucas’s work, Strange Stranger, explores the weight and awkwardness of being in the body, the pain this alienation can cause, and, ironically, the beauty and humor that emerge from this diversity.
These objects may make you stop and stare, drawn by curiosity and inquisitiveness. You may feel slightly confused, bemused, unnerved, or even disturbed by their uncanny nature and refusal to conform.
Lucas creates work that is more about being than being seen. These forms capture frozen moments in time, their position unfixed—both reaching out to the world and bound to themselves, caught in a game of cat and mouse with nowhere to hide from perpetual anxiety. Only humor can save you.
Captions
- Same same but different. AWARD, British Ceramics Biennial, 2019. Photo credit Jenny Harper
Legs akimbo. AWARD, British Ceramics Biennial, 2019, 98x56x157 cm. Photo credit Jenny Harper
Puffa British. AWARD, British Ceramics Biennial, 2019, 190x107x107 cm. Photo credit Jenny Harper
Tippy Toe, 2019, porcelain, stoneware, terracotta, textile, 77x47x47 cm - Artist with Same same but different, Taste Contemporary, Art Geneve, 2020. Photo credit Sylvain Deleu
Same Same but different, 2020. Photo credit Sylvain Deleu
Big Yellow, detail, 2020, ceramic, textile. Photo credit Sylvain Deleu
Diverge, detail, 2020, varied ceramic, 140x41x44 cm. Photo credit Sylvain Deleu
Big yellow and Head in the bin, 2020, ceramic, textile, 149x88x49 cm and 98x49x50cm. Photo credit Sylvain Deleu
Diverge, 2020, varied clays, 140x41x44cm. Photo credit Sylvain Deleu
Stilted, detail, 2020, ceramic, porcelain, steel, textile, 202x191x147 cm. Photo credit Sylvain Deleu - Strange Stranger, 2018, ceramics and textile
Grapple, 2018, ceramic and textile 45x22x15cm
Grasping arm and Goosebump, 2018, ceramics and textiles, 50x20x30 cm. Photo credit Sam Lucas
Group of works, 2019. Photo credit Yeshen Venema
Head in the Bin, 2018, ceramic and textile, 60x30x30 cm
Pink and Lemon Paradox, 2018, ceramics, 55x30x30 cm
Stiltetto, 2018, porcelain, black clay, textile, 53x22x25 cm
