Tracey Emin looks to her life for her primary material. With soul-searching candour, she probes the construct of the self and the very impulse to create.
Emin's early videos, most notably How It Feels, 1996--the horror story of a botched abortion-and Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995, which recounts an episode of humiliation at a dance contest as the impetus to chuck the buried life of Emin's provincial seaside hometown, the scene of ...
Those familiar with Tracey Emin's art will be familiar with her troubled and colourful life story, because her art is entirely autobiographical, insistently confessional. The offspring of an affair between a married Turkish Cypriot and a beautiful young English woman, she and twin brother Paul ...
Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn and Michael Craig-Martin: “The art collection was part of him. The YBAs’ openness and honesty about life, death and sex were a huge part of his world
The moral behind the story is just persevere, just keep going, just be strong and it's going to be all right." Emin was born in Margate in 1963. Her father, a Turkish Cypriot, already had a wife and family in London when he met Emin's mother, Pam, but instead of divorcing, ...