Graduating from Goldsmiths College, London, in 1987, Sarah Lucas (b.1962) belongs to the generation who became known as the Young British Artists (YBAs). Working primarily with sculpture, installation and photography, she employs everyday objects such as old furniture, food, clothing and cigarettes as stand-ins for the human body. Her art is notorious for its vulgarity and absurdity, addressing themes of sexuality and gender through humour, innuendo and bawdy juxtapositions. OOPS! belongs to a series related to Lucas’s iconic Bunny sculptures (1997 onwards), in which pairs of stuffed tights attached to chairs evoke female nudes in positions of vulnerability or abandon. Taking these body-furniture amalgamations as her starting point, Lucas has cast this highly polished bronze sculpture from a soft prototype, posing its tubular forms on a concrete chair. Itreflects themes that have long preoccupied her, including the anthropomorphic charge of found objects and the objectification of female bodies.