Editing Tracey Emin (section)

===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>