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Tracey Emin
Dame Tracey Karima Emin is an English artist known for autobiographical and confessional artwork. She produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn appliqué. Once the "enfant terrible" of the Young British Artists in the 1980s, Emin was elected as a Royal Academician in 2016.
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culture · English artist (born 1963) · salesperson · printmaker · photographer · draftsperson · video artist · installation artist · sculptor · painter · conceptual artist · architectural drafter · also Tracey Emin, Tracey Karima Emin, Emin
Born 3 July 1963 · Q241185
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2026· 9 entries
“what I would really love is that someone did buy it and they donated it to the Tate.”
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“about the kind of women I hate, the kind of women I have no respect for, women who betray and destroy the hearts of other women”
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“We actually looked at about 2,000 drawings and then chose 1,000 drawings... I”
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“I called it that because I saw part of myself as drying and not there anymore and I wanted to question the whole idea of love and passion, whether love exists anymore...Why? Because I”
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“t at all. Carl said to me that I should make some big work as he thought the small-scale stuff I was doing at the time wouldn”
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Artnet News: Tracey Emin Plots Her Next Big Move in Margate
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Public attention spiked: 3,462 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 835, with 0 article edits.
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Yahoo: Artist Dame Tracey Emin says My Bed installation is like a ‘crime scene’
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2025· 1 entry
Women's Wear Daily: Tracey Emin’s Pursuit of Art and Happiness
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2024· 1 entry
Awarded BBC 100 Women (2024).
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2023· 3 entries
The News International: Tracey Emin gives health update after insides 'nearly explode'
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London Evening Standard: Tracey Emin: 'I was away from home, alone and in unbearable pain. Then I realised I’d shit myself'
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Tracey Emin opened TKE Studios in Margate housing affordable spaces for professional artists to work (TKE Studio Members), as well as the ‘Tracey Emin Artist Residency’ (TEAR) programme
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2020· 2 entries
Yahoo: Artist Tracey Emin reveals she had operation for cancer
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In spring 2020, Emin was diagnosed with squamous-cell bladder cancer.
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2018· 1 entry
Emin's largest neon work was displayed at London St Pancras Station, the work called I Want My Time With You hangs below the large central clock in the station
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2017· 1 entry
Emin and Lehmann Maupin ended their working relationship
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2016· 1 entry
CNN: Tracey Emin: The controversial artist on her ‘most mature’ show to date
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2014· 3 entries
Artnet: Tracey Emin Says Female Artists Can’t Have Kids
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Discussed Emin's change of direction from conceptual pieces to painting and sculpture
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My Bed was sold to White Cube founding director Jay Jopling for 2
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2013· 1 entry
On the occasion of a Christie's London sale that raised a total of 3
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2012· 1 entry
Olympic and Paralympic Games, one of only 12 British artists selected
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2011· 2 entries
British Prime Minister David Cameron added an artwork with 'more passion' in neon by Emin in his private apartment at 10 Downing Street
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Had been taking drawing lessons privately for some years in New York and that she had also been taking sculpture lessons for at least three years
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2010· 1 entry
The Foundling Museum acquired a painted bronze sculpture, attached to a wrought iron fence, referencing a "lost mitten"
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2009· 3 entries
Along with book publisher Rizzoli, Emin released a book titled One Thousand Drawings
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Emin designed the album artwork for a release by singer/songwriter Harper Simon, son of Paul Simon
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"I'm simply not willing to pay tax at 50%", she is "very seriously considering leaving Britain" and suggests she will live in France
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2008· 4 entries
A small bronze sculpture, of a mitten, in the Baby Things series, was made by Emin
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“When Liverpool is Capital of Culture in 2008, I”
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As Gormley, whose project One & Other occupied the plinth in summer 2009 and Shonibare, whose work Nelson's Ship in a Bottle was unveiled in 2010
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I'll be making a large work for the Anglican Cathedral, which I'm really looking forward to
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2007· 2 entries
Her neon Keep Me Safe piece reached the highest price ever made for one of her neon works, selling for over £60,000
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London's Royal Academy of Arts elected Tracey Emin as a Royal Academician and four years later, the Academy appointed Emin a Professor of Drawing
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2006· 1 entry
The same image was released as a limited edition etching, but renamed as Kate Moss 2000 (2006)
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2005· 1 entry
Emin compiled a CD of her favourite music called Music To Cry To, which was released and sold by the UK household furnishings retailer and brand Habitat
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2004· 3 entries
In their room dedicated to Emin's work, and was previously exhibited at White Cube in 2001
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The school enquired if Emin would sign the work so that the school could sell it as an original to raise funds
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It was reported that this unique piece had been discovered dumped in a skip in east London
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2003· 1 entry
In an edition of 1000 by Counter Editions, though without the photographs and cloth bag
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2000· 1 entry
Emin was commissioned as part of a scheme throughout London titled Art in Sacred Spaces, to collaborate with children on an artwork at Ecclesbourne Primary School in Islington, north London
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1999· 4 entries
With the title The Last Thing I Said to You is Don't Leave Me Here, which was destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire
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Emin was shortlisted for the Turner Prize herself and exhibited My Bed at the Tate Gallery
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Emin had her first solo exhibition in the United States at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, entitled Every Part of Me's Bleeding
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And also in her New York show Every Part of Me's Bleeding held that same year, known as the Berlin Watercolour series (1998)
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1998· 1 entry
Emin duetted with pop singer Boy George on a song called "Burning Up", released on an 18 track audio CD that accompanied the book We love you
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1997· 2 entries
Emin’s work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, a tent appliquéd with the names of everyone the artist had ever slept with, was shown at Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition held at the Royal Academy in London
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With the text Something's Wrong or There Must Be Something Terebley Wrong With Me [sic] written with spelling mistakes intact in large capital letters alongside "forlorn figures surrounded by space, their outlines fragi
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1995· 2 entries
Was interviewed in the Minky Manky show catalogue by Carl Freedman, who asked her, "Which person do you think has had the greatest influence on your life
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Freedman curated the show Minky Manky at the South London Gallery
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1994· 2 entries
Driving from San Francisco to New York stopping off along the way to give readings from her book, Exploration of the Soul (1994)
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Toured the US together, driving in a Cadillac from San Francisco to New York, and making stops en route where she gave readings from her autobiographical book Exploration of the Soul to finance the trip
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1990· 1 entry
Were included in a 2010 joint exhibition with Paula Rego and Mat Collishaw at the Foundling Museum
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1987· 1 entry
Emin moved to London to study at the Royal College of Art, where in 1989 she obtained an MA in painting
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-07-03.
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