Tracey Emin, CBE, RA (born 3 July 1963) is an English artist. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists).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 held at the Royal Academy in London. The same year, she gained considerable media exposure when she swore multiple times in an apparent state of drunkenness on a live discussion program on UK television.In 1999, Emin had her first solo exhibition in the United States at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, entitled "Every Part of Me's Bleeding". Later that year, 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.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. In 2008, her first major retrospective 20 Years opened at the Dean Gallery in Edinburgh. The exhibition toured Europe until 2009.In May 2011, Emin's largest major solo exhibition in a public space was held at Hayward Gallery, London titled Love Is What You Want.In April 2011, she opened the Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate with Jools Holland and between May and September 2012 she is holding her first exhibition there, entitled "She Lay Down Deep Beneath The Sea".Emin is a panellist and speaker: she has lectured at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney (2010), the Royal Academy of Arts (2008), and the Tate Britain in London (2005) about the links between creativity and autobiography, and the role of subjectivity and personal histories in constructing art. Emin's art takes many different forms of expression including needlework and sculpture, drawing, video and installation, photography and painting.In December 2011, she was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy; with Fiona Rae, she is one of the first two female professors since the Academy was founded in 1768.Emin lives in Spitalfields, East London on Fournier Street in a Georgian Huguenot silk weaver's house which dates from 1726.
I'm simply not willing to pay tax at 50%. So much here is simply not working now. The taxes are too high, there aren't enough incentives to work hard, and our politicians have put me off. We're paying through the nose for everything. I reckon it would mean me paying about 65p in every pound with tax, National Insurance and so on. At least in France their politicians have always understood the importance of culture and they have traditionally helped out artists with subsidy and some tax advantages. We simply have what I call 'ambition politicians' who go from one department to another for career reasons. We should never have got involved in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Nor should we have bid for the Olympics, which we've now got and cannot afford.
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It's like a light bulb, women burn and burn and burn, with men it's just one big flash. At about 40, a male artist has this massive ejaculation and then the work - though not the prices - goes down. It goes back to the sex thing: women keep coming and coming, men just do it once. It's a metaphor for life.
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If I did stuff and everyone said it was wonderful and lovely, I'd think, ooh, what have I done wrong? I wouldn't trust the situation at all.
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There's all different kinds of artists. There's someone like Gary Hume, who makes very beautiful paintings; you look at his painting, you think, ooh, I feel better now. There's other artists who do the complete opposite, Bruce Nauman or someone like that, they're just there to fuck your mind up and give you almost like a headache and you come out thinking, oh my God what have I just seen? Then there's other artists who are just interested in communicating an idea. I come on the end of communicating an idea. I am never going to be the best visual artist in the world, it's not my point. But I've made a film that's about growing up, about girls, how they may react to something growing up and I just, I just . . .
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It was just a sweet thing. The idea of an art film going to a mainstream space. That's all; I liked the idea of it being on in Liverpool for three nights, or Manchester for three nights; of people going and paying their three quid and not feeling like they'd thrown themselves into the arena of contemporary art.
Mentioned in the Manifesto of the Stuckist movement.
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London, England: Artist [December 2012]
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She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to the Arts. She is an artist.
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One of her most famous works of art, 'Tracey Emin's Tent' perished in a fire at Momart's warehouse on an industrial estate in Leyton, east London. (Monday, 24 May, 2004)
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She is an artist.
Director
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Year
Status
Character
Topspot
2004
Sometimes the Dress Is Worth More Money Than the Money
2001
Short
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sometimes the Dress Is Worth More Money Than the Money
2001
Short
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998
Brighton Pub
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Topspot
2004
Sometimes the Dress Is Worth More Money Than the Money
2001
Short
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sometimes the Dress Is Worth More Money Than the Money
2001
Short producer
Set Decorator
Title
Year
Status
Character
Wavelengths
1999
Short
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
New Tate Modern Switched On
2016
Herself
This Week
2014
TV Series
Herself
Newsnight
2014
TV Series
Herself - Interviewee / Herself - Contributor
Angel Without You with Tracy Emin
2014
Short
Herself
Liberatum Inspiring Creativity
2014
Short
Herself
Let the Scream Be Heard
2013
Documentary
Herself
The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution
2013
TV Movie
Herself - Artist
The Last Art Film
2012
Documentary
Herself
Celebrity Exposed: The Photography of Richard Young
2012
TV Mini-Series documentary
Herself
Who Do You Think You Are?
2011
TV Series documentary
Herself
In Confidence
2011
TV Series documentary
Herself
Imagine
2003-2010
TV Series documentary
Herself
Seven Ages of Britain
2010
TV Series documentary
Herself
Mark Lawson Talks to...
2010
TV Series
Herself
Newsnight at 30
2010
TV Movie documentary
Herself
The Colony
2009
Documentary
Herself
The Dark Side of Fame with Piers Morgan
2008
TV Series documentary
Herself
The Great British Menu
2008
TV Series
Herself
The Culture Show
2008
TV Series documentary
Herself
The Dame Edna Treatment
2007
TV Series
Herself - Special Guest
Comic Relief: The Apprentice
2007
TV Movie
Herself
The Joan Rivers Position
2006
TV Series
Herself
Art Shock: What Price Art? By Tracey Emin
2006
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Sunday AM
2005
TV Series
Herself
The Kumars at No. 42
2005
TV Series
Herself
Chavs
2005
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Have I Got News for You
2001-2004
TV Series
Herself
Room 101
2004
TV Series
Herself
Breakfast with Frost
2004
TV Series
Herself
Question Time
2002
TV Series
Herself
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
TV Series
Herself
The South Bank Show
1997-2001
TV Series documentary
Herself / Herself - Presenter, Visual Arts Award
Boy George: One on One
2001
TV Series
Herself - Guest (2001)
The Private Life of a Masterpiece
2001
TV Series documentary
Herself
Top of the Pops
2000
TV Series
Herself
Mad Tracey from Margate
1999
TV Movie documentary
Herself
This Is Hardcore
1998
Documentary short
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Gaga for Dada: The Original Art Rebels
2016
TV Movie documentary
Herself
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
2015
TV Movie documentary
Herself (uncredited)
TV's Believe It or Not
2008
TV Movie documentary
Herself (uncredited)
Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters - Volume 2