Tracey Emin was born in London in 1963 and came into prominence in the mid 1990’s as a member of the infamous Young British Artists.
Self-portraiture and the nude run throughout her practice and she is well known for her frank, confessional style. Unfiltered, irreverent, raw, she draws on themes of love, desire, loss and grief in works that are disarmingly and unashamedly emotional. ‘The most beautiful thing is honesty, even if it’s really painful to look at’, she has remarked.
Emin has developed her own mode of art making that embraces both tenderness and audacity. Her poetic, confessional practice spans film, painting, neon, embroidery, drawing, installation, and sculpture .
In the last four years Tracey has survived an aggressive cancer, opened an art school, been commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery to make a series of 45 images of women cast in bronze for the doors of the refurbished gallery, has become a Dame and has continued producing her extraordinary artworks.
