Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin, CBE, RA is an English contemporary artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn appliqué. Once the "enfant terrible" of the Young British Artists in the 1980s, Tracey Emin is now a Royal Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth3 July 1963
art people done
Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.
art unique impossible
When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.
art doors creative
There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.
running art lovers
Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.
art league way
There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.
failure artist way
I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.
memories years moments
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area