Tracey Emin

One of Britain’s most acclaimed and successful contemporary artists, Tracey Emin's works include the installation pieces My Bed and Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995. She has also written a memoir, Strangeland, and directed a feature film, Top Spot. Regardless of the medium she works in, she draws heavily from personal experience for her work.

'WALKING AROUND MY WORLD' TRACEY EMIN 1998

Tracey Emin: 'I've told Art to keep away. We're going to have a trial separation...'

My Life In A Column

Recently by Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin: 'My heart was like a star that had died, but part of me still shone'

Thursday, 5 March 2009

My Life In A Column

Tracey Emin: 'You have to watch out for death when you are most happy'

Thursday, 26 February 2009

Something very sweet happened today: my mum made pancakes for me and everyone at my studio. My mum will be 81 soon and to see her with a bowl and fork in hand whisking away, with the eager eyes of my Japanese assistant following her every move, and then the tossing – it all worked very well. And the no-recipe formula, the all-knowing "I've-been-making-pancakes-for-70-years" attitude filled me with a strange, glowing pride for my mum, a real mum doing a real mum thing.

Tracey Emin: ‘My head and face became a flash, my body strangely sexy’

Thursday, 19 February 2009

My Life In A Column

Tracey Emin: 'I felt that, in return for my children's souls, I had been given my success'

Thursday, 29 January 2009

I can't believe how fast the week has gone. It seems like there have only been two days this week, and they have both been Wednesday, joined back-to-back, colliding like two tectonic plates. Everything else in between squeezed and pulped into some gluey, blancmangey mess, a sort of dark-mauve, blueberry-coloured blancmange, with a few frozen moments.