Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin
Tracey Karima Emin RA (born 3 July 1963 in Croydon[1]) is a British artist of English and Turkish Cypriot origin. 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 sameyear, she gained considerable media exposure when she appeared drunk and swearing on a live Channel 4 TV discussion.[2] 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 Stuckismmovement, 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. Her first major retrospective 20 Years was held in Edinburgh 2008, and toured Europe until 2009.
Tracey opened the TurnerContemporary art gallery in Margate with Jools Holland in April 2011. She has been a major supporter of the project from its inception and it has been suggested she will exhibit there in the future. 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.
Emin is a panelist and speaker: she has lectured at the Victoriaand Albert Museum in London,[3] the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland,[4] the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney (2010),[5] the Royal Academy of Arts (2008),[6] and the Tate Britain in London (2005)[7] 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 expressionincluding needlework and sculpture, drawing, video and installation, photography and painting.
Contents [hide]  * 1 Life * 1.1 Early life * 1.2 Britartist * 1.3 Fame * 2 Work * 2.1 Monoprints * 2.2 Painting * 2.3 Photography * 2.4 Neon * 2.5 Fabric * 2.6 Found objects * 2.7 Installations * 2.8 Films * 2.9 Books * 2.10Sculpture * 3 Definition of art * 4 Modern Art Oxford (2002-2003) * 5 Momart fire (2004) * 6 Venice Biennale (2007) * 7 Royal Academician (2007) * 8 Twenty Years retrospective (2008) * 9 Love Is What You Want retrospective (2011) * 10 The Vanishing Lake - Frieze Fair (2011) * 11 London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games * 12 Stuckism * 13 Charity work * 14 Music * 15 Politicalviews * 16 References * 17 Further reading * 18 External links |
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[edit] Early life

Sexton Ming, Tracey Emin, Charles Thomson, Billy Childish and Russell Wilkins at the Rochester Adult Education Centre 11 December 1987 to record The Medway Poets LP
Tracey Emin was born in Croydon and brought up in Margate. She has a twin brother. Emin's father, a Turkish Cypriot, was marriedto a woman other than her mother and divided his time between his two families. He owned the Hotel International in Margate, and, when the business failed, Emin's family suffered a severe decline in their standard of living, circumstances which have featured in a number of works. Around the age of 13 she was raped. In a "loosely autobiographical" film to be made of this event she only asked, intrue documentary fashion, that "The extras will all come from Margate and I'll hire a church hall there to hold auditions. I'll ask each of the girls: 'What is it you really hate about your mum?'" At 18 she was pregnant with twins but had an abortion because she was scared of what her parents would think.
She studied fashion at Medway College of Design (1980–1982), where she met expelled student...