Editing Tracey Emin (section)

===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"/>