Tracey Emin (born 3 July 1963) is an English artist of Turkish Cypriot origin, one of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists).
1. Bio/Quotes:
In 1997, her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, a tent appliquéd with names, was shown at Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition. The same year, she gained considerable media exposure, when she appeared drunk and swearing on a live Channel 4 TV discussion.
In 1999, she was a Turner Prize nominee and exhibited My Bed — an installation, consisting of her own unmade dirty bed with used condoms and blood-stained underwear. There has been an ongoing dispute with former boyfriend, artist Billy Childish, particularly over the Stuckism movement, founded in 1999 and named after an insult by her.
In 2004, her tent artwork was destroyed in the Momart warehouse fire. In March 2007, Emin was chosen to join the Royal Academy of Arts in London as a Royal Academician. She represented Britain at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
Emin's art takes many different forms of expression including needlework and sculpture, drawing, video and installation, photography and painting.
It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.
Tracey Emin
What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
Tracey Emin
2. Photos: See Attached
3. Link to review/interview:
interview from young tate, oddly enough: http://www.tate.org.uk/youngtate/artistint/traceyemin_questions.htm
review of "every part of me is bleeding": http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E7D91738F932A25755C0A96F958260
4. Link to gallery representing the artist:
http://www.whitecube.com/
5. Link to artist website:
http://www.tracey-emin.co.uk/
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