Editing Tracey Emin (section)

===''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"/>