Editing Tracey Emin (section)

==Biography==
===Early life and education===
[[File:MedwayPoets.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sexton Ming]], Tracey Emin, [[Charles Thomson (artist)|Charles Thomson]], [[Billy Childish]] and Russell Wilkins at the Rochester Adult Education Centre 11 December 1987 to record [[The Medway Poets]] [[LP album|LP]]]]
Emin was born in [[Croydon]], a district of [[south London]], to an English mother of [[Romanichal]] descent<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theartsdesk.com/tv/who-do-you-think-you-are-tracey-emin-bbc-one|title=Who Do You Think You Are? – Tracey Emin|website=The Arts Desk|date=13 October 2011|access-date=26 August 2014}}</ref> and a [[Turkish Cypriot]] father.<ref>{{cite web|work=Tate Etc.|title=Tracey Emin|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=81057|access-date=31 August 2010}}</ref> She was brought up in [[Margate]], Kent, with her twin brother, Paul.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Tracey Emin: 20 Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1cPpAAAAMAAJ|publisher=National Galleries of Scotland|date=1 January 2008|isbn=9781906270087|pages=20–21}}</ref>

Emin shares a paternal great-grandfather with her second cousin [[Meral Hussein-Ece, Baroness Hussein-Ece]].<ref name=TheGenealogist>{{cite web|title=Tracey Emin|url=https://www.thegenealogist.com/featuredarticles/2011/who-do-you-think-you-are/tracey-emin-59|publisher=The Genealogist|date=1 October 2011|access-date=19 March 2015}}
</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/uk-peer-meral-hussein-ece-and-artist-cousin-tracey-emin-trace-roots-to-slavery/news-story/7d1815cb167a80f076e2211b05f8415b?sv=1c15f36ebcb7035d36f30e15349cd5|title=UK peer traces roots to slavery|last=Woolf|first=Marie|date=18 July 2010|work=The Australian|access-date=3 February 2018}}</ref>

Her work has been analysed within the context of early adolescent and childhood abuse, as well as sexual assault.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Tate Modern Artists: Tracey Emin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8TpAAAAMAAJ|publisher=Harry N. Abrams|date=1 November 2006|isbn=9781854375421|first=Neal|last=Brown|page=28}}</ref> Emin was raped at the age of 13 while living in Margate, citing assaults in the area as "what happened to a lot of girls."<ref>[http://www.courier.co.uk/Everyday-horror-teen-rape/story-12013786-detail/story.html "Emin on the Everyday Horror of Teen Rape"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414014434/http://www.courier.co.uk/Everyday-horror-teen-rape/story-12013786-detail/story.html |date=14 April 2015 }}, ''Kent and Sussex Courier'', 3 October 2008. Retrieved 7 April 2015.</ref> Emin later said in an article she wrote for the ''Evening Standard'' that she had "no memory of being a virgin", citing numerous times she was raped as a young teenager.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Emin |first=Tracey |date=2023-09-15 |title=Tracey Emin: I was raped many times as a child |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/tracey-emin-raped-many-times-as-child-b1105789.html |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}</ref>

She studied fashion at Medway College of Design (now part of the [[University for the Creative Arts]]) (1980–82).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uca.ac.uk|title=UCA – University for the Creative Arts|website=UCA|access-date=4 March 2016}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite book|title=50 Women Artists You Should Know|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XS0yAQAAIAAJ|publisher=Prestel|date=1 January 2008|isbn=9783791339566|first=Christiane|last=Weidemann|page=162}}</ref> There she met expelled student [[Billy Childish]] and was associated with [[The Medway Poets]].<ref name=NS2000>{{citation |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/node/151604 |journal=New Statesman |date=3 July 2000 |first=Graham |last=Bendel |title=Being Childish}}</ref> Emin and Childish were a couple until 1987, during which time she was the administrator for his small press, [[Hangman Books]], which published Childish's confessional poetry.<ref name=NS2000/> From 1983–86<ref name=":3" /> she studied printmaking at [[Kent Institute of Art & Design|Maidstone Art College]] (now part of the [[University for the Creative Arts]]).<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Stuckists: Punk Victorian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w1ZIAQAAIAAJ|publisher=National Museums Liverpool|date=1 January 2004|isbn=9781902700274|first=Frank|last=Milner|page=8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Britannica Book of the Year 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeqbAAAAQBAJ|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|date=1 March 2012|isbn=9781615356188|first=Encyclopaedia Britannica|last=Inc|page=79}}</ref> She graduated with a first class degree in Printmaking. Also, whilst at Maidstone college of Art, Tracey Emin encountered Roberto Navickas aka Roberto Navikas, a name which was later to feature prominently in her "tent". Emin however, mistakenly misspelled his name by dropping a C. Navickas used this error to promote two artworks of his own, some twenty odd years later when re-entering the art world. The works were titled "The Lost C of Emin: The Discovery" & "The Lost C of Emin: A Reliquary". (see tent below).<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Kokoli | first1 = Alexandra | last2 = Cherry | first2 = Deborah | title = Tracey Emin: Art into Life | publisher = Bloomsbury Visual Arts | date = 14 May 2020 | pages = 101 | isbn = 978-1350160606 }}</ref>

In 1995, she was interviewed in the ''Minky Manky''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.southlondongallery.org/page/144/Minky-Manky/208|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009232052/http://www.southlondongallery.org/page/144/Minky-Manky/208|url-status=dead|title=''Minky Manky''|archivedate=9 October 2015}}</ref> show catalogue by [[Carl Freedman]], who asked her, "Which person do you think has had the greatest influence on your life?" She replied, "Uhmm... It's not a person really. It was more a time, going to [[Maidstone College of Art]], hanging around with Billy Childish, living by the [[River Medway]]".<ref name=":3"/>

In 1987, Emin moved to London to study at the [[Royal College of Art]], where in 1989 she obtained an [[Master's degree|MA]] in painting.<ref>{{Cite book|title=ThirdWay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_HPMMDszdFQC|publisher=Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd|date=1 December 2006|first=Hymns Ancient & Modern|last=Ltd|page=20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Tracey Emin|url=http://www.rca.ac.uk/studying-at-the-rca/the-rca-experience/student-voices/rca-luminaries/tracey-emin|website=rca.ac.uk|access-date=20 February 2016}}</ref> After graduation, she had two traumatic [[abortion]]s and those experiences led her to destroy all the art she had produced in graduate school and later described the period as "emotional suicide".<ref name=":5">{{Cite book|title=The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium|last1=Heartney|first1=Eleanor|last2=Posner|first2=Helaine|last3=Princenthal|first3=Nancy|last4=Scott|first4=Sue|publisher=Prestel|year=2013|isbn=978-3-7913-4759-2|location=New York|pages=40–45}}</ref><ref name="JSTOR">{{cite journal|last1=Fanthome|first1=Christine|title=The Influence and Treatment of Autobiography in Confessional Art: Observations on Tracey Emin's Feature Film Top Spot|journal=Biography|year=2006|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|location=Honolulu, HI, USA|volume=29|issue=1, Winter|pages=30–42|jstor=23541013|doi=10.1353/bio.2006.0020|s2cid=162788996}}</ref> Her influences included [[Edvard Munch]] and [[Egon Schiele]], and for a time she studied philosophy at [[Birkbeck, University of London]].<ref name=":4"/><ref>{{Cite book|title=Tate Modern Artists: Tracey Emin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8TpAAAAMAAJ|publisher=Harry N. Abrams|date=1 November 2006|isbn=9781854375421|first=Neal|last=Brown|page=54}}</ref>

One of the paintings that survives from her time at Royal College of Art is ''Friendship'', which is in the Royal College of Art Collection.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Art and Design: 100 Years at the Royal College of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=749PAAAAMAAJ|publisher=Collins & Brown|date=1 January 1999|isbn=9781855857254|first=Christopher|last=Frayling|page=56}}</ref> Additionally, a series of photographs from her early work that was not destroyed was displayed as part of ''[https://whitecube.com/exhibitions/exhibition/tracey_emin_duke_street_1993/ My Major Retrospective]''.<ref name="JSTOR"/>

===Career beginnings===
In 1993, Emin opened a shop with fellow artist [[Sarah Lucas]], called ''The Shop'' at 103 Bethnal Green Road in [[Bethnal Green]], which sold works by the two of them, including [[T-shirt]]s and ashtrays with [[Damien Hirst]]'s picture stuck to the bottom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-lucas-the-last-night-of-the-shop-3793-t07605|title=Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, 'The Last Night of the Shop 3.7.93'|date=3 July 1993|website=Tate Etc.|access-date=10 May 2016}}</ref>

In November 1993, Emin had her first solo show at [[White Cube]], a contemporary art gallery in London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.whitecube.com/gallery-exhibitions/my-major-retrospective-1963-1993|title=My Major Retrospective 1963-1993|website=White Cube}}</ref> It was called ''My Major Retrospective'', and was autobiographical, consisting of personal photographs, photos of her (destroyed) early paintings, as well as items which most artists would not consider showing in public (such as a packet of cigarettes her uncle was holding when he was decapitated in a car crash).<ref>(26 July 2008). [https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12760559.emin-on-emin/ Emin on Emin]. ''The Herald'' (Scotland). Retrieved 12 May 2020.</ref>

In the mid-1990s, Emin had a relationship with [[Carl Freedman]], who had been an early friend of, and collaborator with, [[Damien Hirst]], and who had co-curated seminal [[Britart]] shows, such as ''Modern Medicine'' and ''Gambler''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artblog/2007/oct/10/catchofthedaythezeligof|title=Catch of the day: the Zelig of the art world|last=Hooper|first=Mark|date=2007-10-10|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-03-11}}</ref> In 1994, they toured the US together, driving in a [[Cadillac]] from [[San Francisco]] to New York, and making stops en route where she gave readings from her autobiographical book ''Exploration of the Soul'' to finance the trip.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-monument-valley-grand-scale-t11888|title=Monument Valley (Grand Scale), Tracey Emin 1995–7 {{!}} Tate|last=Tate|website=Tate|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-03-11}}</ref>

The couple spent time by the sea in [[Whitstable]] together, using a [[beach hut]] that she uprooted and turned into art in 1999 with the title ''The Last Thing I Said to You is Don't Leave Me Here'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-the-last-thing-i-said-to-you-was-dont-leave-me-here-ii-p11921|title=Tracey Emin, 'The Last Thing I Said to You was Don't Leave Me Here II' 2000|website=Tate Etc.|access-date=10 May 2016}}</ref> and that was destroyed in the 2004 [[Momart#The 2004 warehouse fire|Momart warehouse fire]].<ref name=":5"/>

[[File:Emin-Tent-Interior.jpg|thumb|left|''[[Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995]]'' by Tracey Emin (1995). An interior view of the work.]]
In 1995, Freedman curated the show ''Minky Manky''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.southlondongallery.org/page/144/Minky-Manky/208 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009232052/http://www.southlondongallery.org/page/144/Minky-Manky/208 | archive-date=9 October 2015 | title=Minky Manky &#124; Exhibitions &#124; South London Gallery }}</ref> at the [[South London Gallery]]. Emin has said,{{blockquote|At that time Sarah (Lucas) was quite famous, but I wasn't at all. Carl said to me that I should make some big work as he thought the small-scale stuff I was doing at the time wouldn't stand up well. I was furious. Making that work was my way at getting back at him.<ref>[http://www.brighton.ac.uk/news/2003/031203eminbarker.php?PageId=804 "Tracey Emin with Barry Barker"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060623132830/http://www.brighton.ac.uk/news/2003/031203eminbarker.php?PageId=804 |date=23 June 2006 }}, University of Brighton, 3 December 2003. Retrieved 2 April 2006.</ref>}}

The result was her "tent" ''[[Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995]]'', which was first exhibited in the show. It was a blue tent, appliquéd with the names of everyone she has slept with. These included sexual partners, plus relatives she slept with as a child, her twin brother, and her two aborted children.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3753541.stm|title=R.I.P. Tracey Emin's Tent|publisher=BBC|access-date=10 September 2016}}</ref>

The needlework which is integral to this work was used by Emin in a number of her other pieces. This piece was later bought by [[Charles Saatchi]] and included in the successful 1997 [[Sensation exhibition]] at the Royal Academy; it then toured to Berlin and New York. It, too, was destroyed by the fire in Saatchi's east London warehouse, in 2004.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3748179.stm "Fire devastates Saatchi artworks"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085822/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3748179.stm |date=4 March 2016 }}, BBC, 26 May 2004. Retrieved 25 February 2008.</ref>

===Public recognition===
Emin was largely unknown by the public until she appeared on a [[Channel 4]] television programme in 1997, ''[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/1997/dec/04/20yearsoftheturnerprize.turnerprize "Is Painting Dead?"<!-- and not "After Dark", see this article's Talk page -->]''. The show comprised a group discussion about that year's [[Turner Prize]] and was broadcast live. Emin said she was drunk, slurred and swore before walking out. From the interview: "Are they really real people in England watching this programme now, they really watching, really watching it?"<ref>{{cite web|last1=Longrigg|first1=Clare|title=Sixty Minutes, Noise: by art's bad girl|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/1997/dec/04/20yearsoftheturnerprize.turnerprize1|website=The Guardian|date=4 December 1997|access-date=3 July 2014}}</ref>
[[File:Emin-My-Bed.jpg|thumb|''[[My Bed]]'' by Tracey Emin]]
Two years later, in 1999, Emin was shortlisted for the Turner Prize herself and exhibited ''[[My Bed]]'' at the [[Tate Gallery]].<ref name=":5"/>

There was considerable media attention regarding the apparently trivial and possibly unhygienic elements of the installation, such as yellow stains on the bedsheets, condoms, empty cigarette packets, and a pair of knickers with menstrual stains. The bed was presented as it had been when she had stayed in it for several days, feeling suicidal because of relationship difficulties.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/tracey-emins-my-bed-at-tate-britain-review-in-the-flesh-its-frankness-is-still-arresting-10144882.html|title=Still unmade ... Tracey Emin's My Bed is back at Tate Britain|date=2015-03-30|work=The Independent|access-date=2017-03-11|language=en-GB}}</ref>

Two performance artists, [[Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi]], jumped onto the bed with bare torsos to "improve" the work, which they thought had not gone far enough.<ref name="Kino">Kim Min Su and Stephen Mallinder (1 February 2010) [http://www.artdesigncafe.com/Tracey-Emin-media-coverage-vs-Cabaret-Voltaire-Kino-ADP-2-1-2010 Tracey Emin media coverage vs. Cabaret Voltaire's ''Kino''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120710050420/http://www.artdesigncafe.com/Tracey-Emin-media-coverage-vs-Cabaret-Voltaire-Kino-ADP-2-1-2010 |date=10 July 2012 }}, ''Art Design Publicity''. Retrieved 13 February 2010.</ref>

In July 1999, at the height of Emin's [[Turner Prize]] fame, she created a number of [[Monoprinting|monoprints]] drawings inspired by the public and private life of [[Princess Diana]] for a themed exhibition called ''Temple of Diana'' held at The Blue Gallery, London. Works such as ''They Wanted You To Be Destroyed'' (1999)<ref>Work illustrated on page 21 of Neal Brown's book ''Tracey Emin (Tate's Modern Artists Series)'' (London: Tate, 2006); {{ISBN|1-85437-542-3}}</ref> related to Princess Diana's [[bulimia]], while other monoprints included affectionate texts such as ''Love Was on Your Side'' and a description of Princess Diana's ''dress with puffy sleeves''. Other drawings highlighted ''The things you did to help other people'' written next to a drawing by Emin of [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] in protective clothing walking through a minefield in Angola. Another work was a delicate sketch of a rose drawn next to the phrase "It makes perfect sence to know they killed you" (with Emin's trademark spelling mistakes) referring to the conspiracy theories surrounding Princess Diana's death. Emin herself described the drawings, saying they "could be considered quite scrappy, fresh, kind of naïve looking drawings" and "It's pretty difficult for me to do drawings not about me and about someone else. But I have did have a lot of ideas. They're quite sentimental I think and there's nothing cynical about it whatsoever."<ref>[http://www.zczfilms.com/shop/films/mad-tracey-from-margate Video footage and interview with Emin from The Blue Gallery exhibition is included in the 1999 documentary ''Mad Tracey From Margate''] by ZCZ Films.{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mad-Tracey-Emin-From-Margate/dp/B00X1NPEXG/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1430816529&sr=1-1|title=Mad Tracey Emin From Margate|website=Amazon UK|date=November 2012}}</ref>
[[File:Tracey Emin 104 0035.JPG|thumb|right|Portrait by [[Reginald Gray (artist)|Reginald Gray]]]]
[[Elton John]] collects Emin's work, as did [[George Michael]]. Michael and his partner [[Kenny Goss]] held the ''A Tribute To Tracey Emin'' exhibition in September 2007 at their Dallas-based museum, the Goss-Michael Foundation<ref>{{cite web|url=http://g-mf.org/|title=MAIN : The Goss-Michael Foundation|website=g-mf.org}}</ref> (formerly Goss Gallery).<ref name="autogenerated6">[http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-traceyemin_0918gl.ART.State.Edition1.427dcb6.html "Tracey Emin says her work is feminine, not feminist"] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20071014230503/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-traceyemin_0918gl.ART.State.Edition1.427dcb6.html |date=14 October 2007 }}, ''Dallas Morning News''. Retrieved 10 May 2016.</ref>

This was the inaugural exhibition for the gallery which displayed a variety of Emin works from a large blanket, video installations, prints, paintings and a number of neon works<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gossmichaelfoundation.org|title=MAIN: The Goss-Michael Foundation|publisher=gossmichaelfoundation.org|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> including a special neon piece ''George Loves Kenny'' (2007) which was the centrepiece of the exhibition, developed by Emin after she wrote an article for ''[[The Independent]]'' newspaper in February 2007 with the same title.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=202410|title=Art World Superstar Tests Sensational, Confessional and Cultural Boundaries in Dallas Show|author=Staff|publisher=gossmichaelfoundation.org|date=5 July 2007}}</ref> Goss and Michael (died 25 December 2016), acquired 25 works by Emin.<ref>Ruiz, Cristina, [http://www.skyarts.co.uk/SkyArts/Art/Article.aspx?artid=4677 "$200m collection of British contemporary art for Texas"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116093353/http://www.skyarts.co.uk/SkyArts/Art/Article.aspx?artid=4677 |date=16 November 2007 }}, SKY Arts. Retrieved 25 February 2008.</ref>

Other celebrities and musicians who support Emin's art include models [[Jerry Hall]] and [[Naomi Campbell]], film star [[Orlando Bloom]] who bought a number of Emin's works at charity auctions<ref>{{cite news|url=http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists/tracey_emin/article3122340.ece|work=The Independent|location=London, UK|title=Tracey Emin: My Life In A Column|date=2 November 2007|access-date=25 May 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106122424/http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists/tracey_emin/article3122340.ece|archive-date=6 January 2008}}</ref> and pop band [[Temposhark]], whose lead singer collects Emin's art, named their debut album ''[[The Invisible Line]]'', inspired by passages from Emin's book ''Exploration of The Soul''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zxlcreative.blogs.com/electroqueer/2008/01/eq-chat-with-te.html|title=EQ Music Blog: EQ Interview With Temposhark Part One: "It's Emotional, Dramatic, Sexy, Dark..."|website=zxlcreative.blogs.com|date=16 January 2008}}</ref> Rock legend [[Ronnie Wood]] of the [[Rolling Stones]] is a well documented friend of Emin, whose own paintings are inspired by Emin's work.<ref>[http://www.limelightagency.com/Ronnie_Wood/Press_enlarge/English/artist_n_Illistrators.html Ronnie wood in Artists and Illustrators magazine] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308171656/http://www.limelightagency.com/Ronnie_Wood/Press_enlarge/English/artist_n_Illistrators.html |date=8 March 2008 }}, limelightagency.com. Retrieved 6 May 2016.</ref> In 2004 Emin presented [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] with the ''UK Music Hall of Fame'' award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.madonnalicious.com/archive/november2004.html|title=UK Music Hall of Fame: Speech and tribute|publisher=madonnalicious.com|date=15 November 2004}}</ref>

Emin was invited to [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]'s country estate Ashcombe and has been described by the singer, "Tracey is intelligent and wounded and not afraid to expose herself," she says. "She is provocative but she has something to say. I can relate to that."<ref>Jones, Dylan. [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article252104.ece "Madonna: The most famous woman in the world interviewed"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120161355/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article252104.ece |date=20 January 2008 }}, Independent.co.uk, 10 February 2001. Retrieved 25 February 2008.</ref> [[David Bowie]], a childhood inspiration of Emin's, also became friends with the artist. Bowie once described Emin as "William Blake as a woman, written by [[Mike Leigh]]".<ref>[http://www.egs.edu/faculty/tracey-emin/biography Tracey Emin Biography] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908024222/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/tracey-emin/biography |date=8 September 2015 }}, [[European Graduate School]]. Retrieved 25 February 2008.</ref>

Like the [[George Michael]] and [[Kenny Goss]] neon, Emin created a unique neon work for her supermodel friend [[Kate Moss]] called ''Moss Kin''. In 2004, it was reported that this unique piece had been discovered dumped in a skip in east London. The piece, consisting of neon tubing spelling the words ''Moss Kin'', had been mistakenly thrown out of a basement, owned by the craftsman who made the glass. The artwork was never collected by Moss and had therefore been stored for three years in the basement of a specialist artist used by Emin in the Spitalfields area. It was accidentally dumped when the craftsman moved.<ref>"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3790377.stm Emin artwork found dumped in skip"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070329031644/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3790377.stm |date=29 March 2007 }}, BBC, 9 June 2004. Retrieved 25 February 2008.</ref> The term used in the work ''Kin'' is a recurring theme of Emin's to describe those dear to her, her loved ones. Other examples can be seen in a monoprint called ''MatKin'' dedicated to her then boyfriend artist [[Mat Collishaw]] and released as an aquatint limited edition in 1997.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210815094123/http://www.invaluabe.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=ObST9b2Q Lot 110: Tracey Emin (b. 1963)], Invaluable.com. Retrieved 6 May 2016.</ref> Emin created a nude drawing of [[Kate Moss]] known as ''Kate'' (2000), signed and dated as ''1 February 2000'' in pencil by the artist. In 2006, the same image was released as a limited edition etching, but renamed as ''Kate Moss 2000'' (2006).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whitecube.com|title=White Cube|author=White Cube|access-date=10 May 2016}}</ref> Emin's work was included in the 2022 exhibition ''Women Painting Women'' at the [[Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth]].<ref name="Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth">{{cite web |title=Women Painting Women |url=https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/women-painting-women |website=Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth |access-date=14 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

===Stuckism===
[[File:2001 Stuckist Turner demo 2 (4).jpg|thumb|[[Stuckist]]s use a cut-out of Emin in 2001 to demonstrate against the [[Turner Prize]]]]
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Emin's relationship with the artist and musician [[Billy Childish]] led to the name of the [[Stuckism]] movement in 1999. Childish, who had mocked her new affiliation to conceptualism in the early 1990s, was told by Emin, "Your paintings are stuck, you are stuck! – Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!" (that is, stuck in the past for not accepting the YBA approach to art). He recorded the incident in the poem, "Poem for a Pissed Off Wife" published in ''Big Hart and Balls'' [[Hangman Books]] 1994, from which [[Charles Thomson (artist)|Charles Thomson]], who knew them both, later coined the term Stuckism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/stuckism/|title=The Stuckism Art History Archive|website=www.arthistoryarchive.com|access-date=2017-03-11}}</ref>

Emin and Childish had remained on friendly terms up until 1999, but the activities of the Stuckist group offended her and caused a lasting rift with Childish. In a 2003 interview, she was asked about the Stuckists:
{{blockquote|I don't like it at all… I don't really want to talk about it. If your wife was stalked and hounded through the media by someone she'd had a relationship with when she was 18, would you like it? That's what happened to me. I don't find it funny, I find it a bit sick, and I find it very cruel, and I just wish people would get on with their own lives and let me get on with mine.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/02/1044122263222.html?oneclick=true|title=Eminently Outrageous|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|date=3 February 2003|access-date=11 July 2010}}</ref>}}
Childish left the Stuckist movement in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/stuckism|title=Stuckism|website=Tate}}</ref>

===Modern Art Oxford (2002–03)===
From November 2002 to January 2003, Tracey Emin's solo exhibition ''This Is Another Place'' was held at [[Modern Art Oxford]] and marked the museum's reopening<ref name=anotherplace>[http://www.culture24.org.uk/places+to+go/north+west/liverpool/art14097 Tracey Emin's This Is Another Place at Modern Art Oxford] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511213049/http://www.culture24.org.uk/places+to+go/north+west/liverpool/art14097 |date=11 May 2013 }}, Scott Henderson, 11 November 2002. [[Culture24]]. Retrieved 17 December 2009.</ref> and renaming to [[Modern Art Oxford]].<ref>[http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/media/pdf/180806_033937.pdf 1965–2005 Modern Art Oxford Timeline] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327201454/http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/media/pdf/180806_033937.pdf |date=27 March 2009 }}, Modern Art Oxford, 2005. Retrieved 1 February 2009.</ref> The exhibition was Emin's first British exhibition since 1997.<ref name=anotherplace/> The exhibition contained drawings,<ref name=searle/> etchings, film, neon works such as ''Fuck off and die, you slag'',<ref name=searle>Searle, Adrian, [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2002/nov/12/art.artsfeatures "Ouch"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114190805/http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2002/nov/12/art.artsfeatures |date=14 November 2012 }}, ''[[The Guardian]]'', 12 November 2002. Retrieved 3 February 2009.</ref> and sculptures including a large-scale wooden pier, called ''Knowing My Enemy'',<ref name=searle/> with a wooden shack on top made from reclaimed timber.<ref name=anotherplace/>

Emin commented that she decided to exhibit in Oxford as museum director [[Andrew Nairne]] had always been "a big supporter of my work".<ref name=anotherplace/> An exhibition catalogue included 50 illustrations: "a compilation of images and writings reflecting her life, her sexual experiences and her desires and fears."<ref name=books>[http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/Exhibitions/Publications/ Emin, Tracey "This Is Another Place"] {{ISBN|1-901352-15-3}} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219013219/http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/Exhibitions/Publications |date=19 February 2010 }}, Modern Art Oxford, 2002. Retrieved 3 February 2009.</ref>

===Momart fire (2004)===
On 24 May 2004, a fire in a [[Momart]] storage warehouse in East London destroyed many works from the [[Saatchi Gallery|Saatchi collection]], including Emin's famous tent with appliquéd letters, ''[[Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995]]'' ("The Tent") (1995) and ''The Last Thing I Said To You Is Don't Leave Me Here'' ("The Hut") (1999), Emin's blue wooden beach hut that she bought with fellow artist [[Sarah Lucas]] and shared with her boyfriend of the time, the gallerist [[Carl Freedman]]. Emin spoke out angrily against what she perceived as a general public lack of sympathy, and even amusement, at the loss of the artworks in the fire.<ref name="Kino" /> She commented, "I'm also upset about those people whose wedding got bombed last week [in Iraq], and people being dug out from under 400ft of mud in the Dominican Republic."<ref>[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1227746,00.html "They said what?"]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001153808/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0%2C%2C1227746%2C00.html |date=1 October 2012 }} ''The Guardian'', 30 May 2004. Retrieved 25 February 2008.</ref>

===Venice Biennale (2007)===
In August 2006, the [[British Council]] announced that they had chosen Emin to produce a show of new and past works for the British Pavilion at the 52nd [[Venice Biennale]] in 2007. Emin was the second woman to produce a solo show for the UK at the Biennale, following [[Rachel Whiteread]] in 1997. Andrea Rose, the commissioner for the British Pavilion, stated that the exhibition would allow Emin's work to be viewed "in an international context and at a distance from the [[Young British Artists|YBA]] generation with which she came to prominence.".<ref>"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5285970.stm Emin art show planned for Venice] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005153042/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5285970.stm |date=5 October 2007 }}", BBC, 25 August 2006.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Seven Days in the Art World|author=Sarah Thornton|isbn=9780393337129|location=New York|oclc=489232834|author-link=Sarah Thornton|date=2 November 2009}}</ref>

Emin picked the title ''Borrowed Light''<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.artimage.org.uk/20933/tracey-emin/borrowed-light--2007--venice-biennale |title= Borrowed Light |last= Emin |first= Tracey |date= 2007 |website= Venice Biennale |publisher= Artimage }}</ref> for the exhibition. She produced new work especially for the British Pavilion, using a wide variety of media – from needlework, photography and video to drawing, painting, sculpture and neon. A promotional British Council flyer included an image of a previously unseen monoprint for the exhibition called ''Fat Minge'' (1994) that was included in the show, while the ''Telegraph'' newspaper<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3675158/52-International-Biennale-Venice.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101024200220/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3675158/52-International-Biennale-Venice.html |archive-date=2010-10-24 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London, UK|title=52 International Biennale, Venice|access-date=25 May 2010|date=8 December 2008}}</ref> featured a photo of a new purple neon ''Legs I'' (2007) that was on display (directly inspired by Emin's 2004 purple watercolour ''Purple Virgin'' series). Emin summed up her Biennale exhibition work as "Pretty and hard-core".<ref>Taken from the British Council flyer to promote the 52nd International Art Exhibition in Venice Biennale</ref>

Emin was interviewed about the Venice Biennale by the BBC's [[Kirsty Wark]] in November 2006. Emin showed Wark some work-in-progress, which included large-scale canvases with paintings of Emin's legs and vagina. Starting with the ''Purple Virgin'' (2004) acrylic watercolour series with their strong purple brush strokes depicting Emin's naked open legs, leading to Emin's paintings in 2005-6 such as ''Asleep Alone With Legs Open'' (2005), the ''Reincarnation'' (2005) series and ''Masturbating'' (2006) amongst others, these works were a significant new development in her artistic output.

Andrea Rose, the British Pavilion commissioner, added to this commenting on the art Emin has produced, "It's remarkably ladylike. There is no ladette work – no toilet with a poo in it – and actually it is very mature I think, quite lovely. She is much more interested in formal values than people might expect, and it shows in this exhibition. It's been revelatory working with her. Tracey's reputation for doing shows and hanging them is not good, but she's been a dream to work with. What it shows is that she's moved a long way away from the YBAs. She's quite a lady actually!"<ref>Barber, Lynn, [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2093995,00.html "From party girl to Biennale queen"]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705181424/http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0%2C%2C2093995%2C00.html |date=5 July 2008 }}, ''The Guardian'', 3 June 2007.</ref>

===Royal Academician (2007)===
On 29 March 2007, Tracey Emin was made a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts. In becoming a member of the Royal Academy Emin joined an elite group of artists that includes [[David Hockney]], Peter Blake, Anthony Caro and Alison Wilding. Her Academician status entitles Emin to exhibit up to six works in the annual summer exhibition.<ref>Roberts, Geneviève. "[http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2401711.ece Tracey Emin is made Royal Academician] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012082653/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2401711.ece |date=12 October 2007 }}", independent.co.uk, 29 March 2007.</ref>

Emin had previously been invited to include works at the R.A. Summer Exhibitions of 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2001. For 2004's Summer Exhibition, Emin was chosen by fellow artist David Hockney to submit two monoprints, one called ''And I'd Love To Be The One'' (1997) and another on the topic of Emin's abortion called ''Ripped Up'' (1995), as that year's theme celebrated the art of drawing as part of the creative process, while 2007 saw Emin exhibit a neon work called ''Angel'' (2005). Her art was first exhibited at the Royal Academy as part of the ''Sensation'' exhibition in 1997.

For the June 2008 Summer Exhibition, Emin was invited to curate a gallery.<ref>[http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/summer-exhibition/ Summer Exhibition 2008 – Exhibitions] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080808114045/http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/summer-exhibition |date=8 August 2008 }}, royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 10 May 2016.</ref> Emin also gave a public talk in June 2008 interviewed by art critic and broadcaster [[Matthew Collings]], contemplating her role within the Royal Academy, the Academy's relationship to the contemporary art world, and her perspective, as an artist, on hanging and curating a gallery in the Summer Exhibition.<ref name="autogenerated5">[http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/events/lectures/tracey-emin-ra-in-conversation,471,EV.html Tracey Emin RA in Conversation with Matthew Collings – Evening lectures – Exhibitions & events]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130916192750/http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/events/lectures/tracey-emin-ra-in-conversation%2C471%2CEV.html |date=16 September 2013 }}, royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 10 May 2016.</ref> She exhibited her famous "Space Monkey – We Have Lift Off" print at the 2009 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.<ref name="autogenerated">[http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/summer-exhibition/room-guide/large-weston-room,934,AR.html Tracey Emin "Space Monkey – We Have Lift Off"  Summer Exhibition 2009 – Exhibitions & events]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130916185742/http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/summer-exhibition/room-guide/large-weston-room%2C934%2CAR.html |date=16 September 2013 }}, royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 10 May 2016.</ref>

===''Twenty Years'' retrospective (2008)===
The first major retrospective of Emin's work was held in [[Edinburgh]] between August and November 2008<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibition/5:368/5118/5426|title=National Galleries of Scotland − What's On − Tracey Emin|publisher=Nationalgalleries.org|date=9 November 2008|access-date=11 July 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519083457/http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibition/5:368/5118/5426|archive-date=19 May 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> attracting over 40,000 visitors, breaking the [[Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art]]'s record for an exhibition of work by a living artist.<ref name="theherald.co.uk">{{cite web|author=Phil Miller|url=http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2465953.0.emin_gives_75_000_sculpture_as_thankyou_for_scots_show.php|title=Emin gives £75,000 sculpture as thank-you for Scots show|work=The Herald|location=Glasgow|date=6 November 2008|access-date=11 July 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210065415/http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2465953.0.Emin_gives_75_000_sculpture_as_thankyou_for_Scots_show.php|archive-date=10 December 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

The large-scale exhibition included the full range of Emin's art from the rarely seen early work to the iconic ''My Bed'' (1998) and the room-sized installation ''Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made'' (1996). The show displayed her unique appliquéd blankets, paintings, sculptures, films, neons, drawings and monoprints. The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art was the only UK venue for the show which then went to the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in [[Málaga]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whitecube.com/news|title=News – White Cube|author=White Cube}}</ref> Spain and then to the Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland from 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch/index.cfm?nav=1245,1397,1442&SID=2&DID=9&aID=227|title=Kunstmuseum Bern &#124; Schweiz – Upcoming|publisher=Kunstmuseumbern.ch|access-date=11 July 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716062457/http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch/index.cfm?nav=1245,1397,1442&SID=2&DID=9&aID=227|archive-date=16 July 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

It was reported on 6 November 2008 that Emin gifted a major sculpture to the [[Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art]] as a "thank you"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationalgalleries.org/aboutus/press/1:172|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412030007/http://www.nationalgalleries.org/aboutus/press/1%3A172|url-status=dead|title=Press release dated 5 November 2008 'Tracey Emin Gifts Major Sculpture as Visitors Have a Last Chance to See Record Breaking Exhibition'|archivedate=12 April 2012}}</ref> to both the gallery and the city of Edinburgh. The work called ''Roman Standard'' (2005) comprises a {{convert|13|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} bronze pole, surmounted by a little bird, cast in bronze. The work has an estimated value of at least £75,000.<ref name="theherald.co.uk"/>

===''Love Is What You Want'' retrospective (2011)===
In May–August 2011, a major survey exhibition at London's [[Hayward Gallery]] consisted of work from all aspects of Emin's art practice,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/may/22/tracey-emin-love-hayward-review|title=Tracey Emin: Love is what you want – review|author=Laura Cumming|work=The Guardian|date=21 May 2011}}</ref> revealing facets of the artist and her work that are frequently overlooked.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loveiswhatyouwant.com/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924162848/http://www.loveiswhatyouwant.com/|url-status=dead|title=Love IS What You Want &#124; Dating Blog|archivedate=24 September 2015|website=love is what you want}}</ref> The exhibition included painting, drawing, photography, textiles, video and sculpture, with rarely before seen early works alongside more recent large-scale installations. Emin made a new series of outdoor sculptures especially for this solo show.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/8517013/Tracey-Emin-Love-Is-What-You-Want-Hayward-Gallery-review.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518145026/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/8517013/Tracey-Emin-Love-Is-What-You-Want-Hayward-Gallery-review.html |archive-date=2011-05-18 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want, Hayward Gallery, review|date=16 May 2011|work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref>

===''The Vanishing Lake – Frieze Fair (2011)''===
On 6 October 2011, Emin opened a site-specific exhibition at a Georgian house on [[Fitzroy Square]].<ref name=NGarnett>Garnett, Natasha. "Reformed Bad-Girl Artist Tracey Emin." ''WSJ: The Magazine from the Wall Street Journal'' 03 2012 ProQuest. 3 March 2017</ref> The title is taken from her novel which has served as a catalyst for a series of works, created for a neoclassical house designed by Robert Adam in 1794. The exhibition also featured a series of embroidered texts and hand-woven tapestries which continued Emin's interest in domestic and handcrafted traditions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tracey Emin goes back to her Margate roots but her art goes in an interesting new direction |url=https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/tracey-emin-she-lay-down-deep-beneath-the-sea |access-date=2024-03-04 |website=www.itsnicethat.com |language=en}}</ref> Emin herself has said that, "I called it that because I saw part of myself as drying and not there anymore and I wanted to question the whole idea of love and passion, whether love exists anymore...Why? Because I'm nearly 50, I'm single, because I don't have children."<ref name=NGarnett/>

===London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games===
Emin was a mentor on the ''BA Great Britons Programme''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ba.com/greatbritons|title=British Airways}}</ref> She also produced a poster and limited edition print for the [[London 2012]] Olympic and Paralympic Games, one of only 12 British artists selected.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13842219|title=Tracey Emin to design 2012 Olympic posters|work=BBC News}}</ref> On 19 July 2012, Emin carried the Olympic torch through her hometown of Margate.<ref>{{cite news|title=Turner Prize-nominated artist Tracey Emin calls Olympic torch run a surreal experience|url=http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56641|access-date=31 July 2012|newspaper=Art Daily|date=20 July 2012}}</ref>

=== Joint exhibit with Edvard Munch ===
In December 2020, Emin had a gallery exhibition containing works by [[Edvard Munch]], entitled ''The Loneliness of the Soul'', at the Royal Academy of Arts. Emin selected 19 pieces of Munch's work to be displayed alongside 25 pieces of her own.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch {{!}} Exhibition {{!}} Royal Academy of Arts|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/tracey-emin-edvard-munch|access-date=2020-12-13|website=www.royalacademy.org.uk}}</ref> Simultaneously, she had a show at London's [[White Cube]] gallery which included a short [[Super-8]] film in tribute to Munch.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Nick Glass|title=After fighting cancer, Tracey Emin returns to the art world with raw, emotional works|url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/tracey-emin-interview/index.html|access-date=2020-12-15|website=CNN|date=12 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

The exhibition was re-shown at the newly opened [[Munch Museum]] in Oslo, with Emin being the first artist to show alongside the Norwegian painter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.munchmuseet.no/en/exhibitions/archive/2021/tracey-emin-edvard-munch-the-loneliness-of-the-soul/|title = Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch - the Loneliness of the Soul}}</ref> Works included recent paintings, as well as her seminal work ''[[My Bed]]''. Emin had suffered from cancer in the year before the exhibit, and was unsure whether she would be able to see it herself.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/may/13/tracey-emin-on-beating-cancer-you-can-curl-up-and-die-or-you-can-get-on-with-it|title=Tracey Emin on her cancer self-portraits: 'This is mine. I own it'|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=13 May 2021}}</ref> The exhibition travelled to the [[Royal Academy of Arts]] in London in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/tracey-emin-edvard-munch |website=Royal Academy of Arts}}</ref> Reviewing the exhibition for ''Londonist'', Tabish Khan said: “It captures that sense of loneliness I've struggled to put into words, and left me emotionally spent".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Khan |first1=Tabish |title=Tracey Emin And Edvard Munch Capture The Loneliness We All Felt During Lockdown |url=https://londonist.com/london/tracey-emin |website=Londonist|date=8 December 2020 }}</ref> It was also reviewed favourably in [[The Guardian]] with Tim Adams writing "This exhibition is not comprehensive enough to be billed as a retrospective, but even so, everything that Emin has made and felt and suffered in the past is brought to full expression in it".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Adams |first=Tim |date=2020-12-06 |title=Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul review – a meeting of primal screamers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/dec/06/tracey-emin-edvard-munch-the-loneliness-of-the-soul-royal-academy-london-review |access-date=2025-01-08 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref>

=== ''By The Time You See Me There Will Be Nothing Left'' (2024) ===
An exhibition of Emin's work produced post-cancer diagnosis ran from 24 May 2024 until 27 July. The show included ''You Keep Fucking Me'' and was held in the [[Xavier Hufkens]] gallery in Brussels. She told ''The Guardian'': "It's the best show I have ever done."<ref name=":6">{{Cite news |last=Hattenstone |first=Simon |date=2024-05-29 |title=The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: 'I didn't want to die as some mediocre YBA' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/29/the-radical-ravishing-rebirth-of-tracey-emin-i-didnt-want-to-die-as-some-mediocre-yba |access-date=2024-05-29 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>