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{{Short description|English artist (born 1963)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name             = Tracey Emin
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DBE|RA}}
| image            = Tracey Emin 1-cropped.jpg
| caption          = Emin at Lighthouse Gala auction in aid of [[Terrence Higgins Trust]], 2007
| birth_name       = Tracey Karima Emin
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|df=y|1963|07|03}}
| birth_place      = [[Croydon]], England
| death_date       = 
| death_place      = 
| education        = {{Indented plainlist|
* {{ubl|item_style={{longitem}}|Medway College of Design (1980–82)}}
* {{ubl|item_style={{longitem}}|[[Maidstone College of Art]] (1983–86)  ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] [[Printmaking]])}}
* {{ubl|item_style={{longitem}}|[[Royal College of Art]] (1987–89) ([[Master of Arts|MA]] Painting)}}
* {{ubl|item_style={{longitem}}|[[Birkbeck University of London]]}}
}}
| style            = {{ubl|item_style={{longitem}}|[[Readymade]]|[[Installation art]]|}}
| movement         = {{ubl|item_style={{longitem}}|[[Young British Artists]]|}}
| works            = {{ubl|item_style={{longitem}}|''[[Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995]]'' (1995)|''[[My Bed]]'' (1998)|}}
| website          = {{URL|traceyeminfoundation.com}}
| module           = {{listen|embed=yes|filename=Tracey Emin BBC Radio4 Front Row 22 April 2013.flac|title=Tracey Emin's voice|type=speech|description=from the BBC programme [[Front Row (radio programme)|Front Row]], 22 April 2013<ref name="BBC-b01s09kr">(22 April 2013). [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s09kr Cultural exchange with Tracey Emin]. ''Front Row'' (BBC Radio 4). Retrieved 15 April 2020.</ref>}}
| honorific_prefix = [[Dame]]
}}

'''Dame Tracey Karima Emin''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DBE|RA}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɛ|m|ɪ|n}}; born 3 July 1963)<ref>{{Cite news|last=Januszczak|first=Waldemar|title=Tracey Emin on life after cancer: 'I desire to be part of this world'|newspaper=[[The Times]]|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/tracey-emin-on-life-after-cancer-i-desire-to-be-part-of-this-world-txt35t5j2|access-date=2022-01-05|issn=0140-0460}}</ref><ref>(n.d.). Tracey Emin. [https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-the-perfect-place-to-grow-t11791 ''The Perfect Place to Grow'', (2001)]. Tate website. Retrieved 15 April 2020.</ref> is an English artist known for autobiographical and confessional artwork. She produces work in a variety of media including [[drawing]], [[painting]], [[sculpture]], [[film]], [[photography]], [[Neon lighting|neon text]] and sewn [[appliqué]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_HPMMDszdFQC|title=ThirdWay|last=Ltd|first=Hymns Ancient & Modern|date=1 December 2006|publisher=Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd|language=en}}</ref> Once the "[[wikt:enfant terrible#English|enfant terrible]]" of the [[Young British Artists]] in the 1980s, Tracey Emin is now a [[Royal Academy of Arts|Royal Academician]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk|title=Tracey Emin is made Royal Academician|last=Geneviève|first=Roberts|access-date=10 May 2016}}</ref>

In 1997, her work ''[[Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995]]'', a tent appliquéd with the names of everyone the artist had ever slept with, was shown at [[Charles Saatchi]]'s ''[[Sensation (exhibition)|Sensation]]'' exhibition held at the [[Royal Academy of Arts|Royal Academy]] in London.<ref>(12 September 1997). [https://www.artdesigncafe.com/sensation-royal-academy-of-arts-london-1997 Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London] (press release mentioning Emin). ''artdesigncafe''. Retrieved 15 April 2020.</ref> In the same year, she gained considerable media exposure when she swore repeatedly when drunk on a live British TV discussion programme called ''The Death of Painting''.<ref name=tracey>(18 March 2005). [https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A3784782 Tracey Emin – Artist]. ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (website). Retrieved 15 April 2020.</ref>

In 1999, Emin had her first solo exhibition in the United States at [[Lehmann Maupin|Lehmann Maupin Gallery]], entitled ''Every Part of Me's Bleeding''. Later that year, she was a [[Turner Prize]] nominee and exhibited ''[[My Bed]]''&nbsp;– a readymade installation, consisting of her own unmade dirty bed, in which she had spent several weeks drinking, smoking, eating, sleeping and having sexual intercourse while undergoing a period of severe emotional flux. The artwork featured used condoms and blood-stained underwear.<ref>Jones, Jonathan. (16 September 2016). [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/16/tracey-emin-artist-1998-installation-my-bed-tate-liverpool-merseyside Tracey Emin makes her own crumpled bed and lies in it, on Merseyside]. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 15 April 2020.</ref>

Emin is also a panellist and speaker: she has lectured at the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] in London,<ref name="london">{{cite web|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/courses/lectures_talks_tours/friday_talks/index.html|title=Tracey Emin. Evening Talks|publisher=[[Victoria and Albert Museum]]|author=Victoria and Albert Museum|access-date=25 November 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528131837/http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/courses/lectures_talks_tours/friday_talks/index.html|archive-date=28 May 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref> the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney (2010),<ref name="sydney">{{cite web|url=http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/calendar/tracey-emin-conversation|title=Tracey Emin in conversation|publisher=Art Gallery of [[New South Wales]], Sydney, Australia|date=6 November 2010|author=Art Gallery of [[New South Wales]]|access-date=25 November 2010|archive-date=22 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200522144100/http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/calendar/tracey-emin-conversation/|url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[Royal Academy of Arts]] (2008),<ref name="royal">{{cite web|url=http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/events/lectures/tracey-emin-ra-in-conversation,471,EV.html|title=Tracey Emin RA in Conversation with Matthew Collings|publisher=Geological Society Lecture Theatre, Piccadilly|author=Royal Academy of Arts|access-date=25 November 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100912172344/http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/events/lectures/tracey-emin-ra-in-conversation,471,EV.html|archive-date=12 September 2010|df=dmy-all|author-link=Royal Academy of Arts}}</ref> and the [[Tate Britain]] in London (2005)<ref name="tate">{{cite web|url=http://lecturelist.org/content/view_lecture/1342|title=Art, Memory and Autobiography: Tracey Emin, Christopher Bollas and Gillian Slovo|publisher=[[Tate Britain]]|date=27 January 2005|author=Tate Britain| access-date=25 November 2010}}</ref> about the links between creativity and autobiography, and the role of subjectivity and personal histories in constructing art. In December 2011, she was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy; with [[Fiona Rae]], she is one of the first two female professors since the Academy was founded in 1768.<ref>
(14 December 2011). [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16175033 Tracey Emin to become Professor of Drawing at RA]. ''BBC News''. Retrieved 26 April 2020.</ref><ref>(14 December 2011). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8955811/Tracey-Emin-appointed-as-RAs-Professor-of-Drawing.html Tracey Emin appointed as RA's Professor of Drawing]. ''Daily Telegraph''. Retrieved 26 April 2020.</ref> Emin lived in [[Spitalfields]], East London,<ref>{{cite web|title=Crossrail Bill petition|date=2006–2007|publisher=[[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]]|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmbills/002/ap322.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Stop 5: Christ Church & Fournier Street|url=http://www.worldwrite.org.uk/londonbehindthescenes/bricklane/christchurch.html|publisher=worldwrite.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Hugo Glendinning, photographer|date=1 March 2010|url=http://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/03/01/hugo-glendinning-photographer|publisher=SpitalfieldsLife.com}}</ref> before returning to [[Margate]], where she funds the ''TKE Studios'' with workspace for aspiring artists.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tracey Emin to auction work to fund Margate studios for emerging artists|newspaper=The Guardian |date=22 September 2022 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/sep/22/tracey-emin-to-auction-work-to-fund-margate-studios-for-emerging-artists |last1=Sherwood |first1=Harriet |last2=Arts |first2=Harriet Sherwood }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Tracey Emin to launch 'revolutionary' art school in Margate|newspaper=The Guardian |date=6 January 2022 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jan/06/tracey-emin-to-launch-revolutionary-art-school-in-margate |last1=Khomami |first1=Nadia |last2=Arts |first2=Nadia Khomami }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.traceyeminfoundation.com/tke-studios-|title=TKE STUDIOS|website=Tracey Emin Foundation|access-date=10 April 2023|archive-date=15 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715155806/https://www.traceyeminfoundation.com/tke-studios-|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==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>

==Artistic work==

===Monoprints===
{{BLP sources section|date=May 2016}}
Emin's [[monoprints]] are a well-documented part of her creative output. These unique drawings have a diaristic aspect and frequently depict events from the past, for example, ''Poor Love'' (1999), ''From The Week of Hell '94'' (1995), and ''Ripped Up'' (1995), which relate to traumatic experiences; or other personal events as seen in ''Fuck You Eddy'' (1995) and ''Sad Shower in New York'' (1995), both of which are part of the Tate's collection of Emin's art.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/tracey-emin-2590|title=Tracey Emin |work=Tate Etc.}}</ref>

The monoprints often incorporate text as well as image, although some bear only text and others only image. The text appears as the artist's stream of consciousness voice. Some critics have compared Emin's text-only monoprints to ransom notes. The rapid, one-off technique involved in making monoprints is perfectly suited to (apparently) immediate expression, as is Emin's scratchy and informal drawing style. Emin frequently misspells words, deliberately or due to the speed at which she does each drawing. In a 2002 interview with [[Lynn Barber]], Emin said: "It's not cute affectation. If I could spell, then I would spell correctly, but I never bothered to learn. So, rather than be inhibited and say I can't write because I can't spell, I just write and get on with it."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parkettart.com/qwr/set_library.php3?directory=63|title=PARKETT Books|publisher=parkettart.com|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref>

Emin created a key series of monoprints in 1997 with the text ''Something's Wrong''<ref>Terrebly Wrong (1997)</ref> or ''There Must Be Something Terebley Wrong With Me''<ref>''Something'' (1997)</ref> {{sic}} written with spelling mistakes intact in large capital letters alongside "forlorn figures surrounded by space, their outlines fragile on the page. Some are complete bodies, others only female torsos, legs splayed and with odd, spidery flows gushing from their vaginas. They are all accompanied by the legend ''There's Something Wrong''."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue1/something.htm|title=Articles|website=Tate Etc.|access-date=6 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111227144507/http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue1/something.htm|archive-date=27 December 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Other key monoprints include a series from 1994 and 1995 known as the ''Illustrations from Memory'' series which document Emin's childhood memories of sexual awakening and other experiences growing up in [[Margate]] such as ''Fucking Down An Ally 16/5/95'' (1995) and ''Illustrations from Memory, the year 1974. In The Livingroom'' (1994). Emin further produced a set of monoprints detailing her memories of [[Margate]]'s iconic buildings such as ''Margate Harbour 16/5/95'' (1995), ''The Lido 16/5/95'' (1995), and ''Light House 15/5/95'' (1995). Other drawings from 1994 include the ''Family Suite'' series, part of the [[Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art]] collection, consisting of 20 monoprints with "archetypal themes in Emin's art: sex, her family, her abortions, and Margate".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artfund.org/artwork/9639/family-suite|title=Family Suite by Tracey Emin|publisher=artfund.org|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> This series of monoprints was displayed for the first time from August 2008 at the Edinburgh gallery as part of her first major retrospective, which has been called the ''Summer Blockbuster'' exhibition.<ref>[http://www.nationalgalleries.org/supportus/page/3:205 Support us]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219002745/http://www.nationalgalleries.org/supportus/page/3%3A205 |date=19 February 2012 }}, nationalgalleries.org. Retrieved 6 May 2016.</ref> A further ''Family Suite II'' set was exhibited in Los Angeles in November 2007 as part of Emin's solo show at the Gagosian gallery.<ref name="autogenerated4">[http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/beverly-hills-2007-11-tracey-emin Gagosian Gallery – Exhibition – Tracey Emin] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111030055035/http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/beverly-hills-2007-11-tracey-emin |date=30 October 2011 }}, gagosian.com. Retrieved 6 May 2016.</ref>

Emin's monoprints are rarely displayed alone in exhibitions as they are particularly effective as collective fragments of intense emotional confrontation. Emin has made several works documenting painful moments of sadness and loneliness experienced when travelling to foreign cities for various exhibitions such as ''Thinking of You'' (2005) and ''Bath White I'' (2005)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/artists/tracey-emin|title=Lehmann Maupin|publisher=lehmannmaupin.com}}</ref> which were from a series of monoprints drawn directly onto the USA Mondrian hotel stationery.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whitecube.com/artists/artist/tracey_emin|title=Artists – White Cube|author=White Cube}}</ref> Emin has said, "Being an artist isn't just about making nice things, or people patting you on the back; it's some kind of communication, a message."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-sad-shower-in-new-york-p11567|title='Sad Shower in New York', Tracey Emin |work=Tate Etc.|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref>

In 2009, along with book publisher [[RCS MediaGroup|Rizzoli]], released a book titled ''One Thousand Drawings''. As the title suggests, the book contains 1000 drawings from
Emin's career since 1988. The book was released to coincide with Emin's show ''Those who suffer love'' at White Cube which was mainly a drawings show.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whitecube.com/exhibitions/exhibition/tracey_emin_masons_yard_2009|title=Exhibitions – White Cube|publisher=whitecube.com|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> Emin said in an interview that "We actually looked at about 2000 drawings and then chose 1000 drawings [for the book]... I'd probably done, over that period of time about 4000 drawings".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/arts_entertainment/art/interview+tracey+emin/3173067|title=Latest UK & World News – Videos – Special Reports|publisher=Channel 4|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref>

Monoprint drawings of mothers and children that Emin drew during a pregnancy in 1990 were included in a 2010 joint exhibition with [[Paula Rego]] and [[Mat Collishaw]] at the [[Foundling Museum]].<ref name="Alex Healey">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2010/jan/27/foundling-museum-tracy-emin|title=Video: Tracey Emin, Paula Rego and Mat Collishaw at the Foundling Museum|author=Alex Healey|date=27 January 2010|website=The Guardian|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref>

Rarely exhibited examples of monoprints gifted to friends and family of Emin form a niche but revealing body of work. These may show Emin's work in the most raw and uncensored from. Emin has gifted monoprints to individuals including her brother Paul Emin<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/|title=Home|website=Radio Times}}</ref> and the singer [[Cat Stevens]] (Yusuf Islam) with whom she shares Cypriot heritage.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9IPGbwAACAAJ | title=English People of Cypriot Descent: Cat Stevens, George Michael, Tracey Emin, Robert Newman, Sarbel, Colin Kazim-Richards | isbn=978-1-155-84339-1 | last1=Wikipedia | first1=Source | date=September 2010 | publisher=General Books LLC }}</ref>

===Painting===
Emin displayed six small watercolours<ref>List of Works in the Turner Prize 1999 brochure, Tate Publishing</ref> in her [[Turner Prize]] exhibition in 1999, and also in her New York show ''Every Part of Me's Bleeding'' held that same year, known as the ''Berlin Watercolour'' series (1998). These delicate, washed out but colourful watercolours include four portraits of Emin's face and were all painted by Emin in Berlin during 1998, adapted from Polaroids of the artist taking a bath.<ref name="autogenerated1">[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5040978.html 'Artist's abortion tape and unmade bed lead Turner Prize shortlist'] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914090122/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5040978.html |date=14 September 2013 }}</ref> Each unique painting from this series share the same title, ''Berlin The Last Week in April 1998''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exception/info|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222105807/http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/past/?object_id=32|url-status=dead|title=Lehmann Maupin|archivedate=22 February 2012|website=www.lehmannmaupin.com}}</ref> Simon Wilson, spokesperson for the Tate, commented that Emin included the set of tiny Berlin watercolours "as a riposte to the accusation that there are no paintings"<ref name="autogenerated1"/> in the Turner Prize exhibitions.  The bath theme seen in these watercolours was later revisited by Emin in her photographic work ''Sometimes I Feel Beautiful'' (2000) and in monoprints such as the ''Bath White'' (2005) series. With all these works, Emin explores a [[Mary Cassatt]] quality of the "woman in a private moment".{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}

Emin's focus on painting has developed over the past few years, starting with the ''Purple Virgin'' (2004) acrylic watercolour series of purple brush strokes depicting her naked open legs, and leading to paintings such as ''Asleep Alone With Legs Open'' (2005), the ''Reincarnation'' (2005) series and ''Masturbating'' (2006), among others.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}

In May 2005, London's ''[[Evening Standard]]'' newspaper highlighted Emin's return to painting in their preview of her ''When I Think About Sex'' exhibition at White Cube. Other works were nude self-portrait drawings. Emin was quoted as saying, "For this show I wanted to show that I can really draw, and I think they are really sexy drawings."<ref>[http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-18897358-details/The+bare+truth+about+Tracey/article.do The bare truth about Tracey] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210191730/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-18897358-details/The+bare+truth+about+Tracey/article.do |date=10 December 2008 }}, ThisisLondon.co.uk. Retrieved 10 May 2016.</ref>

Work for her 2007 show at the [[Venice Biennale]] included large-scale canvases of her legs and vagina. A watercolour series called ''The Purple Virgins'' were displayed. There are ten ''Purple Virgin'' works in total, six of which were shown at the Biennale. These were accompanied by two canvases of a similar style called ''How I Think I Feel 1 and 2''.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}} The Venice Biennale was also the first time Emin's ''Abortion Watercolour'' series, painted in 1990, had ever been shown in public.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/gallery/2007/jun/07/emin|title=Tracey Emin at the 2007 Venice Biennale|last=Levene|first=David|date=2007-06-07|website=The Guardian|access-date=2017-03-11}}</ref>

Jay Jopling presented a new Emin painting, ''Rose Virgin'' (2007), as part of White Cube's stand at the Frieze Art Fair in London's Regent's Park on 10 October 2007. More new paintings are expected to be shown in Emin's ''You Left Me Breathing'' exhibition in Los Angeles' Gagosian gallery from 2 November 2007, described in a recent interview as an 'exhibition of sculpture and painting'.<ref name="autogenerated6"/> A number of new paintings were on display including ''Get Ready for the Fuck of Your Life'' (2007).<ref name="autogenerated4"/>

An article by the art critic [[Alastair Sooke]], published in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', in October 2014, discussed Emin's change of direction from conceptual pieces to painting and sculpture. Sooke claimed that although Emin was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy in 2011, she has been taking drawing lessons privately for some years in New York, and that she had also been taking sculpture lessons for at least three years. Neither Emin or Jay Jopling have commented on the article.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/11145045/Tracy-Emin-The-Last-Great-Adventure-Is-You-review-Emin-goes-back-to-school-and-lays-bare-her-homework.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007144433/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/11145045/Tracy-Emin-The-Last-Great-Adventure-Is-You-review-Emin-goes-back-to-school-and-lays-bare-her-homework.html |archive-date=2014-10-07 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Tracey Emin, The Last Great Adventure Is You, review: 'Emin goes back to school'|author=Alastair Sooke|date=6 October 2014|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=10 May 2016}}</ref>

===Photography===
Emin has produced many photographic works throughout her career, including ''Monument Valley (Grand Scale)'' (1995–97)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-monument-valley-grand-scale-t11888|title='Monument Valley (Grand Scale)', Tracey Emin |work=Tate Etc.}}</ref> and ''Outside Myself (Monument Valley, reading "Exploration of the Soul")'' (1995)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.simmonscontemporary.com/browse/?a=Tracey+Emin&t=&m=&l=|title=Browse|work=SimmonsContemporary}}</ref> which resulted "from a trip Emin made to the United States in 1994. She and her then boyfriend, writer, curator and gallery owner [[Carl Freedman]], drove from San Francisco to New York, stopping off along the way to give readings from her 1994 book, ''Exploration of the Soul''. The photograph shows the artist sitting in an upholstered chair in [[Monument Valley]], a spectacular location on the southern border of Utah with northern Arizona, holding her book. Although it is open, it is not clear whether she is looking at the viewer or at the text in front of her. Emin gave her readings sitting in the chair, which she had inherited from her grandmother, which also became part of Emin's art, ''There's A Lot of Money in Chairs'' (1994)."<ref name="MV">[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-monument-valley-grand-scale-t11888 "Monument Valley"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615131656/http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-monument-valley-grand-scale-t11888 |date=15 June 2016 }}, Tate.org.uk. Retrieved 25 November 2014.</ref>

Other photographic works include a series of nine images comprising the work ''Naked Photos – Life Model Goes Mad'' (1996) documenting a painting performance Emin made in a room specially built in Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm. Another photographic series, ''Trying on Clothes From My Friends (She Took The Shirt Off His Back)'' (1997), shows the artist trying on her friends' clothes offering up questions of identity.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}

Other works such as ''I've Got It All'' (2000) show Emin with her "legs splayed on a red floor, clutching banknotes and coins to her crotch. Made at a time of public and financial success, the image connects the artist's desire for money and success and her sexual desire (her role as consumer) with her use of her body and her emotional life to produce her art (the object of consumption)",<ref name="MV"/> while ''Sometimes I Feel Beautiful'' (2000) pictures Emin lying alone in a bath. Both these works are examples of her using "large-scale photographs of herself to record and express moments of emotional significance in her life, frequently making reference to her career as an artist. The photographs have a staged quality, as though the artist is enacting a private ritual."<ref name="MV"/>

Emin's two self-portraits taken inside her beach hut, ''The Last Thing I Said To You Is Don't Leave Me Here I'' (2000) and ''The Last Thing I Said To You Is Don't Leave Me Here II'' (2000) are a diptych although they are often exhibited and sold separately. They depict a naked Emin on her knees inside her beach hut which she and friend [[Sarah Lucas]] had bought in Whitstable, Kent in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-the-last-thing-i-said-to-you-was-dont-leave-me-here-ii-p11921|title='The Last Thing I Said to You was Don't Leave Me Here II', Tracey Emin, 2000|last=Tate|website=Tate|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-03-02}}</ref>

The hut itself later became the sculpture ''The Last Thing I Said To You Is Don't Leave Me Here (The Hut)'' (1999). They are part of museum collections including [[Tate Modern]], the [[Saatchi Gallery]] and the [[National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom)|National Portrait Gallery]] and have been mass produced as postcards sold in museum shops around the world.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}

===Neon===
Emin has also worked with [[neon light]]s. One such piece is ''You Forgot To Kiss My Soul'' (2001)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/youforgottokissmysoul/5|title=White Cube – You forgot to kiss my soul|publisher=Whitecube.com|date=26 May 2001|access-date=11 July 2010}}</ref> which consists of those words in blue neon inside a neon heart-shape. Another neon piece is made from the words ''Is Anal Sex Legal'' (1998).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-is-anal-sex-legal-t11890|title=Is Anal Sex Legal by Tracey Emin|work=Tate Etc.|access-date=25 November 2014}}</ref> to complement another ''Is Legal Sex Anal'' (1998)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-is-legal-sex-anal-t11889|title=Is Legal Sex Anal by Tracey Emin|work=Tate Etc.|access-date=11 July 2010}}</ref>

For the Venice Biennale, she produced a series of new purple neon works, for example, ''Legs I'' (2007).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishcouncil-venice.org|title=The British Pavilion for the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia|access-date=6 May 2016|publisher=britishcouncil-venice.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317124346/http://britishcouncil-venice.org/|archive-date=17 March 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> This 2007 series of ''Legs'' neon works were directly inspired by the ''Purple Virgin'' (2004) watercolour series. For example, ''Legs IV'' (2007)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425153950/424046260/tracey-emin-legs-iv.html|title=Art Galleries on artnet}}</ref> directly follows the watercolour lines of the ''Purple Virgin 9'' (2004). For a joint 2010 exhibition with Paula Rego and Mat Collishaw, she decorated the front of the Foundling Museum with the neon words "Foundlings and fledglings are angels of this earth".<ref name="Alex Healey"/>

Emin has donated neon work to auction for charity and in 2007, her neon ''Keep Me Safe'' reached the highest price ever made for one of her neon works of over £60,000.<ref name=autogenerated8>{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artmarketwatch/artmarketwatch6-22-07.asp|title=Art Market Watch – artnet Magazine|date=30 May 2007|publisher=artnet.com}}</ref> A brand new neon piece called ''With You I Want To Live'' was shown as part of Emin's ''You Left Me Breathing'' exhibition in 2007 at the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles.<ref>[http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/beverly-hills-2007-11-tracey-emin/ The image of the neon is being used in publicity surrounding the forthcoming exhibition of new Emin work] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111030055035/http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/beverly-hills-2007-11-tracey-emin/ |date=30 October 2011 }}, gagosian.com, November 2007. Retrieved 6 May 2016.</ref>

In 2018, Emin's largest neon work was displayed at London [[St Pancras railway station|St Pancras Station]], the work called ''I Want My Time With You'' hangs below the large central clock in the station.<ref>{{Cite web |last=St Pancras |title=2018: I WANT MY TIME WITH YOU |url=https://stpancras.com/news-events/2018-i-want-my-time-with-you}}</ref> In an interview with ''[[The Guardian]]'', Emin stated that the work was a message to the rest of europe during the [[Brexit crisis|Brexit Crisis]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=The Guardian |title=Tracey Emin sends a message of love to rest of Europe via St Pancras |newspaper=The Guardian |date=10 April 2018 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/apr/10/tracey-emin-sends-a-message-of-love-to-europe-via-st-pancras}}</ref> Passengers disembarking [[Eurostar|Eurostar trains]] from Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam arrive at the station every day underneath the work.

===Fabric===
Emin frequently works with fabric in the form of appliqués – material (often cut out into lettering) sewn onto other material. She collects fabric from curtains, bed sheets and linen and has done so for most of her life. She keeps such material that holds emotional significance for later use in her work. Many of her large-scale appliqués are made on hotel linens, for example, ''It Always Hurts'' (2005), ''Sometimes I Feel So Fucking Lost'' (2005), ''Volcano Closed'' (2001) and ''Helter Fucking Skelter'' (2001). ''Hate And Power Can Be A Terrible Thing'' (2004), part of the Tate's collection of Emin's work, is a large-scale blanket inspired in part by [[Margaret Thatcher]] due to her involvement in "an attack on 800 boys and men in the Argentinian navy" and other women for example women who steals their friends' boyfriends, Emin says of this work "about the kind of women I hate, the kind of women I have no respect for, women who betray and destroy the hearts of other women".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.tate.org.uk/btseries/bb/traceyemin|title=BT Series – Tracey Emin|website=Tate Etc.|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref>

Emin's use of fabric is diverse, one of her most famous works came from sewing letters onto her grandmother's armchair in ''There's A Lot of Money in Chairs'' (1994). The chair was very detailed, "including her and her twin brother's names, the year of her grandmother's birth (1901) and the year of her death (1963) on either side of the words '''another world''', referring to the passing of time. An exchange between the artist and her grandmother using the nicknames they had for each other: {{'}}''Ok Puddin, Thanks Plum''{{'}}, covers the bottom front of the chair and a saying of Emin's grandmother's, "There's a lot of money in chairs", is appliquéd in pink along the top and front of its back. Behind the chair back, the first page of ''Exploration of the Soul'', handwritten onto fabric, is appliquéd together with other dictums such as, "It's not what you inherit. It's what you do with your inheritance".<ref name="MV"/>

Emin used the chair on a trip Emin made to the United States in 1994. Driving from San Francisco to New York stopping off along the way to give readings from her book, ''Exploration of the Soul'' (1994). Emin gave her readings sitting in the upholstered chair and "as she crossed the United States, the artist sewed the names of the places she visited – San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Monument Valley, Detroit, Pittsburgh, New York – onto the front of the chair".<ref name="MV"/> Emin also posed in the chair for two of her photographic works (see Photography) while in Monument Valley, in the Arizona Desert. It is currently on public display at Pallant House Gallery until 6 March 2011 as part of the exhibition, 'Contemporary Eye: Crossovers', pallant.org.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2016.

Emin has made a large number of smaller-scale works, often including hand sewn words and images, such as ''Falling Stars'' (2001), ''It Could Have Been Something'' (2001), ''Always Sorry'' (2005) and ''As Always'' (2005).<ref>Lehmann Maupin Gallery, [http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/2005-11-05_i-can-feel-your-smile/press/337/exhibition_work/1 I Can Feel Your Smile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730014055/http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/2005-11-05_i-can-feel-your-smile/press/337/exhibition_work/1 |date=30 July 2018 }}. Retrieved 17 February 2017.</ref>

On 13 April 2007, Emin launched a specially designed flag made out of fabric with the message ''One Secret Is To Save Everything'' written in orange-red letters across the banner made up of hand-sewn swimming sperm. Tracey Emin's flag, at 21 feet by 14 feet, flew above the Jubilee Gardens in the British capital until 31 July 2007, with the parliament building and the London Eye as backdrops. Emin called the artwork "a flag made from wishful thinking".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6553327.stm|work=BBC News|title=Artist Emin unveils cryptic flag|date=13 April 2007|access-date=25 May 2010}}</ref> The flag was commissioned by the South Bank Centre in London's Waterloo.

In June 2007, on returning from the [[Venice Biennale]], Emin donated a piece of artwork, a handsewn blanket called ''Star Trek Voyager'' to be auctioned at [[Elton John]]'s annual glamorous White Tie & Tiara Ball to raise money for The Elton John AIDS Foundation. The piece of artwork sold for £800,000.<ref name="white">Alexander, Hilary. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2007/06/29/efwhite129.xml "White tie and tiara ball"]   {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011164114/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=%2Ffashion%2F2007%2F06%2F29%2Fefwhite129.xml |date=11 October 2007 }}. telegraph.co.uk, June 2006. Retrieved 25 February 2008.</ref>

Emin's works on fabric has been related to other artists such as [[Louise Bourgeois]], who Emin actually mentions in a sewn work called ''The Older Woman'' (2005) with the phrase (monoprint on fabric), "I think my Dad should have gone out with someone older like Louise, Louise Bourgeois".<ref name="autogenerated3">[http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/traceyemin Tracey Emin profile] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612013833/http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/traceyemin |date=12 June 2008 }}, lehmannmaupin.com. Retrieved 6 May 2016.</ref> She was interviewed by [[Alan Yentob]] during the BBC's ''Imagine'' documentary ''Spiderwoman'' about Louise Bourgeois, aired in the UK on 13 November 2007.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/imagine/article/louise_bourgeois.shtml "Episode Guide: Louise Bourgeois, Spiderwoman"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914072256/http://www.bbc.co.uk/imagine/article/louise_bourgeois.shtml |date=14 September 2013 }}, BBC, November 2007. Retrieved 25 February 2008.</ref>

===Found objects===
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Emin has often made use of [[found object]]s in her work from the early use of a cigarette box found in a car crash in which her uncle died. The most well known example is ''[[My Bed]]'', where she displayed her bed. Another instance is the removal of her beach hut from [[Whitstable]] to be displayed in a gallery. This work was titled ''The Last Thing I Said To You Is Don't Leave Me Here (The Hut)'' (1999).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.saatchigallery.com/aipe/tracey_emin.htm|title=Tracey Emin|last=Gallery|first=Saatchi|website=www.saatchigallery.com|language=en|access-date=2018-09-18}}</ref> She revisited the theme of the bed in 2002, with the mixed media installation, ''To Meet My Past'' (2002),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/tracey_emin_meet_my_past2.htm|title=Saatchi Gallery|author=Saatchi Gallery}}</ref> another installation with a [[four poster bed]] with embroidered text such as ''Weird Sex'' and ''To Meet My Past'' hanging down alongside the mattress.<ref name="autogenerated3" />

She incorporated stones and rocks which had been thrown through her window in a mixed media piece in her 2005 show. The work consists of a [[monoprint]] of herself sitting on a chair with the stones lined up below the drawing in a vitrine. ''The Leg'' (2004) included a plaster cast inside a vitrine, kept by the artist after she broke her leg, exhibited alongside a C-print photograph of the artist wearing the cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/whenithinkaboutsex/7/|title=Exhibitions|publisher=WhiteCube.com|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref>

''May Dodge, My Nan (1993)'' is also an installation piece that displays relics of personal items significant to Emin. It was exhibited at the [[White Cube]] in Emin's first solo show ''My Major Retrospective.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-may-dodge-my-nan-t11886|title='May Dodge, My Nan', Tracey Emin, 1963-93|last=Tate|website=Tate|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-12-11}}</ref> ''May Dodge, My Nan'' encompasses five condiments separately framed and mounted to the wall in the exhibition. It consists of a handwritten page of manuscript, two relics and lastly two photographs.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|title='May Dodge, My Nan', Tracey Emin, 1963–93|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-may-dodge-my-nan-t11886|last=Tate|website=Tate|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-26}}</ref> From left to right, it views: pasted onto a small paper doily is a magazine cut-out of three kittens along with the caption too &nbsp;'Timmy, Leo and Squashie posing beautifully for the camera', as well as a small piece of card stuck onto a piece of blue wool, which dangles making the shape of a handle below. A coloured photo from the past of Emin holding a kitten standing next to her grandmother May Dodge sitting at a table in a kitchen. A black and white photo of both Emin as a little girl and May Dodge standing in a garden in the 1960s. A handmade scented pomander that resembles a doll that Emin's grandmother made. The relic made up of sections of soft knitted white cotton fabrics and lace gathered together over its scented stuffing and topped with a plastic doll's head. And, lastly, the hand written note by Emin herself in blue ink.<ref name="auto"/>

===Sculpture===
In February 2005, Emin's first public artwork, ''The Roman Standard '', a bronze sculpture, went on display outside the Oratory, adjacent to [[Liverpool Cathedral]]. It consists of a small bird perched on a tall bronze pole, and is designed so that the bird seems to disappear when viewed from the front. It was commissioned by the [[BBC]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4293245.stm|title=Emin unveils 'sparrow' sculpture|work=BBC News|date=24 February 2005|access-date=27 March 2007}}</ref> "Emin's work stands outside The Oratory, in Upper Duke Street just outside the Cathedral. The Roman Standard – which features a small bird on top of a four-metre high bronze pole – is a tribute to the city's famous symbol the Liver Bird. The sculpture was commissioned by the BBC as part of their contribution to the art05 festival and Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture in 2008.  Emin says the sculpture represents strength and femininity."<ref name="autogenerated2">[http://www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk/content/musicandevents/whatson/detail/Installation_by_Tracey_Emin_1_month/171.aspx Installation by Tracey Emin (1 month)]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, LiverpoolCathedral.org.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2016.</ref>

In September 2008, she unveiled a neon work that was "installed in the well of the cathedral"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2007/12/06/sir-paul-mccartney-and-tracey-emin-are-culture-stars-100252-20209788|title=Sir Paul McCartney and Tracey Emin are Culture stars|author=Catherine Jones|date=6 December 2007|work=liverpoolecho}}</ref> Emin herself says of her continuing relationship of making public sculptures in the town, "When Liverpool is Capital of Culture in 2008, I'll be making a large work for the Anglican Cathedral, which I'm really looking forward to."<ref name="autogenerated2"/>

Other sculptures have included ''Death Mask'' (2002) which is a bronze cast of her own head. Emin loaned this work to the [[National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom)|National Portrait Gallery]] in 2005,{{blockquote|The death mask, which enjoyed a popular revival in the nineteenth century, was a method for preserving the final expression and physiognomy of the famous or infamous, largely based on the belief that facial features and proportion could explain personal attributes such as genius or criminality. These likenesses were often produced and distributed in multiples as plaster casts could be taken from a bronze original.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}

Death Masks were most usually made of male subjects. The red appliqué fabric on which Emin's bronze head is placed refers to the frequent use of quilting and embroidery in her work, associated with the [[Separate spheres|domestic sphere]] of women, which challenges masculine frameworks of history and art history. Emin, whose work is often based on images of herself, once commented "It is like they have seen my art by seeing me". In this work she offers herself in perpetuity as an enclosed specimen or museum display, literally transforming herself into an object for the scrutiny of generations to come.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050415213443/http://www.npg.org.uk/live/wotraceyemin.asp What's on?: Death Mask by Tracey Emin, npg.org.uk; accessed 10 May 2016.]</ref>}}

At Emin's 2007 ''Venice Biennale'' exhibition, as well as the central exhibition's ''Tower'' sculptures, tall wooden towers consisting of small pieces of timber piled together, a new small bronze-cast sculpture work of a child's pink sock was revealed ''Sock'' (2007) on display on the steps of the British Pavilion.<ref>[http://www.britishcouncil-venice.org/images/200.jpg ''Sock'' (image)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223205050/http://www.britishcouncil-venice.org/images/200.jpg |date=23 February 2012 }}, britishcouncil-venice.org. Retrieved 10 May 2016.</ref> Her exhibition again attracted widespread UK media coverage, both positive and negative.<ref name="Kino"/>

In September 2007, Emin announced she would be exhibiting new sculpture work in the inaugural [[Folkestone]] Triennial, which took place in the Kent town from June until September 2008. In June 2008, Emin discussed the [[Folkestone]] sculptures, stating the "high percentage" of teenage pregnancies in the Kent town had inspired this latest work.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2108165/Teenage-mothers-inspire-Tracey-Emin-artwork.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2108165/Teenage-mothers-inspire-Tracey-Emin-artwork.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London, UK|title=Teenage mothers inspire Tracey Emin artwork|date=11 June 2008|access-date=25 May 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Emin said her contribution would be different pieces placed around the town, "I'm going to be making very tiny bronze-cast items of baby clothing. It's baby clothes that I have found in the street, like a mitten or a sock."<ref>(25 September 2007). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7012916.stm Emin joins major new art festival]. ''BBC News''. Retrieved 12 May 2020.</ref>

Emin's 2007 solo show at [[Gagosian Gallery]] in Los Angeles' Beverly Hills<ref name="autogenerated4"/> included brand new sculpture works described by Emin as, "some very strange little sculptures. They are nearly all of animals, apart from one, which is a pineapple. They rest on mini-plinths made in a really brilliant LA, beach, California, Fifties surfer kind of style. Different woods put together in cute pattern formations. In some places the wood is 18th-century floorboards, some bits of cabin from tall ships or things which could have been found on the seashore – driftwood."<ref>[http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists/tracey_emin/article2831924.ece Comment taken from Tracey Emin's column for the ''Independent'' newspaper] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019042658/http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists/tracey_emin/article2831924.ece |date=19 October 2007 }}, 3 August 2007.</ref> ''The New York Times'' included Emin in a piece about artists who are "Originals", with a new photograph with two sculptures, one of a small bird on a thin stand and a large seagull, both sculptures placed on wooden plinths.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Originals|url=https://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2007/12/02/style/t/index.html#totalPages=7&pagewanted=5&pageName=02originals&|work=The New York Times|access-date=25 May 2010|first=Christine|last=Muhlke}}</ref> Gagosian further described the many different sculptures from the show as, "a group of delicate wood and jesmonite sculptures, which expand on the spirals, rollercoasters, and bridges of recent years. Others incorporate cast bronze figures – seagulls, songbirds, and frogs – or objects combining cement and glass, which are placed on tables or bundled bases made from found timbers."<ref>"[http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/beverly-hills-2007-11-tracey-emin/ Tracey Emin"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111030055035/http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/beverly-hills-2007-11-tracey-emin/ |date=30 October 2011 }}, Gagosian.com. Retrieved 6 May 2016.</ref>

In late November 2007, it was announced that Emin was one of six artists to have been shortlisted to propose a sculpture for the fourth plinth in London's [[Trafalgar Square]]. The other shortlisted artists were [[Jeremy Deller]], [[Antony Gormley]], [[Anish Kapoor]], [[Yinka Shonibare]], and [[Bob and Roberta Smith]] – the professional name of [[Patrick Brill]].{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}

The contenders were commissioned to produce a scale model of their idea. On 6 January 2008, it was revealed Emin's proposal was a lifesize model of a group of four [[meerkat]]s, the desert mammal.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2236093,00.html|work=The Guardian|location=London, UK|title=Emin gives meerkats a brush with stardom|first=Vanessa|last=Thorpe|date=6 January 2008|access-date=25 May 2010}}</ref> Entitled ''Something for the Future''<ref>Brown, Mark. [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2237242,00.html "Artists vie for Trafalgar plinth commission"]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006043824/http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0%2C%2C2237242%2C00.html |date=6 October 2008 }}, ''The Guardian''.</ref> it consisted of a sculpture of four meerkats "as a symbol of unity and safety" as "whenever Britain is in crisis or, as a nation, is experiencing sadness and loss (for example, after [[Princess Diana]]'s funeral), the next programme on television is 'Meerkats United.'"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.london.gov.uk/fourthplinth/plinth/emin.jsp|title=The Fourth Plinth - Tracey Emin|date=12 January 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112150127/http://www.london.gov.uk/fourthplinth/plinth/emin.jsp|archive-date=12 January 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The successful proposal were announced in 2008 as Gormley, whose project ''[[One & Other]]'' occupied the plinth in summer 2009 and Shonibare, and whose work ''Nelson's Ship in a Bottle'' was unveiled in 2010.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

Emin's latest project, commissioned by Oslo Municipality Art Programme, is a 7-metre-tall bronze sculpture, ''The Mother'', to be unveiled on Museum Island, outside the new Munch Museum, when it opens in 2020. (http://www.themuseumisland.com/). From the jury's assessment: 'With its immediate and visceral artistic approach it appears both intimate and majestic, vulnerable and grandiose. The title ''The Mother'' refers to a mature protector and the sculpture brings to mind the ubiquitous motifs of women and the nude in Munch's work. As a non‐idealised depiction of a woman made by a woman it can also be seen as a feminist statement.'

===Film===
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* ''Quiet Lives'' (1982), featuring Emin and boyfriend [[Billy Childish]]<ref>''Quiet Lives'' (1982), 11 mins, 16&nbsp;mm, written and directed by Eugene Doyen.</ref>{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}—once available with ''Cheated'' and ''Room for Rent'' in ''A Hangman Triple Bill'' (also known as ''The Hangman Trilogy'').<ref>[[Hangman Books|Hangman Films]].</ref>{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}<ref>''Quiet Lives'' is discussed in an article on Childish's films in ''No Focus: Punk on Film'' (Headpress, 2006).{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}</ref>{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* ''[[Why I Never Became a Dancer]]'' (1995) is a single-screen projection with sound, shot on Super 8. Duration: 6 minutes, 40 seconds.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Art of Tracey Emin|publisher=Thames and Hudson|year=2002|isbn=0-500-28385-0|location=London|page=219}}</ref> It was made in an edition of 10<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-why-i-never-became-a-dancer-t07314/text-summary|title='Why I Never Became a Dancer', Tracey Emin|website=Tate Etc.|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> and an edited transcript has been published by Tate.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Tracey Emin|publisher=Tate Publishing|year=2006|isbn=1-85437-542-3|location=London|page=78}}</ref> The film portrays the artist's early adolescence in Margate, where she grew up. The film begins with the title written across a wall, and then features a montage of views which are significant to Emin's past, including her school, the seaside and shops. The artist's voice narrates her story, opening with, "I never liked school / I was always late / In fact I hated it / So at thirteen I left." The video's final scenes show Emin's involvement in a local disco-dancing competition, in an attempt to escape to London to take part in the British Disco Dance Championship 1978. The last two minutes of the film consist of Emin dancing exuberantly around an empty studio with the song ''[[You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)|You Make Me Feel]]'', by [[Sylvester (singer)|Sylvester]] along with a voice overed narration of her saying 'Shane, Eddy, Tony, Doug, Richard  this one's for you'.<ref>{{Cite web|title='Why I Never Became a Dancer', Tracey Emin, 1995|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-why-i-never-became-a-dancer-t07314|last=Tate|website=Tate|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/79687251|title=Tracey Emin: Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995|publisher=Vimeo.com|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> {{clarify|date=January 2016}}{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

In the film, Emin describes leaving school at age 13 and spending her time on Margate's Golden Mile, dreaming and having sex. Sex "was something you could just do and it was for free". She was "13, 14" and having sex with men of "19, 20, 25, 26". In the film, the narration states: "It could be good, really something. I remember the first time someone asked me to grab their balls, I remember the power it gave me. But it wasn't always like that; sometimes they'd just cum, and then they'd leave me there, wherever I was, half naked."<ref name=":0" /> In the final scenes, the artist performs at a local dance competition and people begin to clap. A gang of men, "most of whom [the artist] had sex with at one time or another"<ref name=":0"/> began to chant "slag, slag, slag".<ref name=":0"/>

In an interview with [[Melvyn Bragg]], Emin commented on the incident: "I don't see why I was such a slag. All I did was sleep with a few people. It's not a crime, I didn't kill anyone."<ref>{{Citation|title=Tracey Emin on The South Bank Show|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxaoAy9oNtY|access-date=10 September 2016}}</ref>
* ''How It Feels'' (1996)
* ''Tracey Emin's CV Cunt Vernacular'' (1997), an autobiographical work in which Emin narrates her story from childhood in Margate, through her student years, abortions and destruction of her early work.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* ''Homage to Edvard Munch and all My Dead Children'' (1998)
* ''Sometimes the Dress Is Worth More Money Than the Money'' (2001). ICA.{{clarify|date=January 2016}}{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* ''[[Top Spot]]'' (2004), a feature-length non-fiction production mixing DV footage and Super 8 film into a montage. The title, ''Top Spot'', refers to a youth centre/disco in Margate, as well as being an explicit sexual reference.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Romney |first=Jonathan |date=2005-01-01 |title=JONATHAN ROMNEY ON TRACEY EMIN'S TOP SPOT |url=https://www.artforum.com/columns/jonathan-romney-on-tracey-emins-top-spot-170526/ |access-date=2024-03-04 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}</ref>

Emin has described ''Top Spot'' as being "about the moment of... understanding that you are walking into an adult world which means sex, which means often violence, which means that you may suddenly have some perspective on your own life that you never had before."<ref name="JSTOR"/> ''Top Spot'' was given an 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification, much to Emin's dismay, as she intended the film for a teenage audience.<ref name="JSTOR"/><ref>In the film, the natural beauty of the sea and the sunsets is connected to Margate's manmade pleasures. The film is scored with a selection of 1970s songs that were the soundtrack to the artist's own adolescence. It was shot during the summertime in Margate and London in England, as well as in Egypt.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}</ref>

Emin withdrew the film from general distribution in cinemas after it was rated with an 18 certificate.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4018433.stm|title=Emin withdraws film from cinemas|publisher=BBC|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> It was broadcast on BBC3 television in the UK in December 2004,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4040215.stm|title=Emin film gets debut in home town|work=BBC News |access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> and a DVD of the film was released in 2004.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

===Installations===
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Emin has created a number of installation art pieces including ''Poor Thing (Sarah and Tracey)'' (2001) which was made up of two hanging frames, hospital gowns, a water bottle and wire. A similar installation called ''Feeling Pregnant III'' (2005) made up of fabric hung off wooden and metal coat hangers and stands was a later creation for Emin. Both these installations touch further on Emin's relationship with pregnancy and abortion and can be related to [[Louise Bourgeois]]' sculptures such as ''Untitled'' (1996), a mobile of hanging clothes, and ''Untitled'' (2007), a series of standing bronze sculptures.

''The Perfect Place to Grow'' (2001) was a video installation with a set consisting of a wooden birdhouse, a DVD (shot on Super 8), monitor, trestle, plants, wooden ladder. This installation has been exhibited at the Tate Britain in 2004 in their room dedicated to Emin's work and also White Cube in 2001. It was dedicated to her father, creating the bird house as "a tiny home for my dad", and Emin thought of the works' title from the idea of "nature and nurture".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/btseries/bb/traceyemin/explore/shed_home.html|title=BT Series – Tracey Emin|website=Tate Etc.|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref>

''Knowing My Enemy'' (2002) was a large-scale installation created by Emin for her [[Modern Art Oxford]] solo show of that year. Consisting of reclaimed wood and steel, Emin created a wooden "look-out" house upon a long, broken, wooden pier. ''It's Not the Way I Want to Die'' (2005) was another large-scale installation, part of Emin's 2005 solo show at White Cube. Emin created a large rollercoaster track with reclaimed timber and metal. Displayed in the same show was a smaller installation work called ''Self Portrait'' (2005) which consisted of a tin bath, bamboo, wire and neon light.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whitecube.com/exhibitions/exhibition/tracey_emin_hoxton_square_2005|title=Exhibitions – White Cube|publisher=whitecube.com|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> Another related installation ''Sleeping With You'' (2005) consisted of painted reclaimed timber and a thin neon light across a dark wall.<ref name="autogenerated3"/>

==Selected publications==
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The following books or book chapters have been authored by Emin:
* ''Exploration of the Soul'' (1994).{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}} Limited edition, 200 copies, signed inside, with two original colour photographs,{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} provided in a hand-sewn white cloth bag with the two coloured cloth letters "TE" hand sewn in various colours.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

An autobiographical short story covering Emin's conception through her life at age 13. Re-released in 2003, in an edition of 1000 by Counter Editions, though without the photographs and cloth bag.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* —, Brown, Neal; Kent, Sarah & Collings, Matthew (1998). ''Tracey Emin'' (London: Jay Jopling/White Cube, 1998); {{ISBN|0-9522690-2-3}}.
* ''Tracey Emin'' (2002), Booth-Clibborn.{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* ''The Is Another Place'' (2002). Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Limited edition, 2002; {{ISBN|1-901352-15-3}}.
* ''Details of Depression'' (2003). Counter Editions, Cyprus/London,{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}} with author appearing as Tracey Karima Emin, limited edition, stamped on back cover.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} Brought together an ancient Arabic poem and a series of photographs taken around the northern part of Cyprus.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* ''Strangeland'' (2005). London: Scepter5. {{ISBN|0-340-76944-0}}. Emin's memoir, divided into three sections ("Motherland", "Fatherland" and "Traceyland"), written in the first person, and conveying her life from childhood.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} [[Jeanette Winterson]] wrote: "Her latest writings are painfully honest, and certainly some of it should have been edited out by someone who loves her."<ref name=winterson>[http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=357 "The Times: Books: Tracey Emin"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112145014/http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=357 |date=12 January 2008 }}, jeanettewinterson.com. Retrieved 28 March 2006.</ref> Emin's editor for Strangeland was the British novelist [[Nicholas Blincoe]].{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} This book also attracted considerable media coverage, and Billy Childish publicly questioned some of its accounts in newspaper articles.<ref name="Kino"/>
* ''I Can Feel Your Smile'' (2005). New York: Lehmann Maupin.{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* ''Tracey Emin: Works 1963 – 2006'' (2006). London: Rizzoli. {{ISBN|0-8478-2877-8}}.
* ''Borrowed Light: the British Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2007'' (2007). London: British Council. {{ISBN|0-86355-589-6}}.
* ''You Left Me Breathing'' (2008), Gagosian.{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* ''One Thousand Drawings'' (2009), Rizzoli.{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* ''Monoprint Diaries'' (2009), White Cube.{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* ''Those Who Suffer Love'' (2009).{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}} A selection of Tracey Emin's ''[[GQ]]'' poems, with accompanying drawings.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* ''Love Is What You Want'' (2011).{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}} A survey of work from Emin's major show at the [[Hayward Gallery]] in London.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* ''My Life in a Column'' (2011). {{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}

==Miscellanea==
A poster she photocopied and put up around her home when her cat Docket went missing became an object collected by people, but was excluded by Emin from her canon.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/1898461.stm "Emin's cat posters taken by collectors"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040620015152/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/1898461.stm |date=20 June 2004 }}, BBC, 28 March 2002. Retrieved 25 February 2008.</ref>

In 2000, Emin was commissioned, as part of a scheme throughout London titled ''Art in Sacred Spaces'',<ref name="autogenerated7">{{cite news|url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1180915,00.html|work=The Guardian|location=London, UK|title=A£35,000 Tracey Emin quilt – but worthless if school tries to sell it|first=Lucy|last=Ward|date=30 March 2004|access-date=25 May 2010}}</ref> to collaborate with children on an artwork at Ecclesbourne Primary School in [[Islington]], north London. Pupils made the piece with her in Emin's style of sewing cut out letters onto a large piece of material. In 2004, the school enquired if Emin would sign the work so that the school could sell it as an original to raise funds. They planned to auction the piece for £35,000 for an arts unit,<ref>"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3584273.stm Emin wants school quilt returned"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060330235832/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3584273.stm |date=30 March 2006 }}, BBC, 30 March 2004. Retrieved 25 February 2008.</ref> as it could not afford to display the large work. Emin and her gallery White Cube refused, saying that it was not a piece of her art, therefore reducing its value, and requested it be returned.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/newspapers/sunday_times/style/article428901.ece|title=The Times – UK News, World News and Opinion}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> But Emin quickly came to an agreement with the school, where she paid £4,000 to create a perspex display box for the patchwork quilt to be showcased. Taking as her theme the title "Tell me something beautiful", Emin invited eight-year-olds to nominate their ideas of beauty and then to sew the keywords in felt letters on bright fabric squares. The resulting bold patchwork featured words such as "tree", "sunrise", "dolphin" and "nan".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3603787.stm|title=Emin pays to show school's quilt|publisher=BBC|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref>

Art critic John Slyce, who has worked on school collaborations with artists, supported Emin and White Cube's decision saying, "This is a horrific precedent for the school to try to set. They were lucky to have an artist of that stature spending that amount of time with them ... the artwork should remain in context with the kids. Children's primary experience of art should not be as a commodity."<ref name="autogenerated7"/>

==Emin and feminism==
Tracey Emin is one of just two women professors to be appointed at London's Royal Academy of Arts since the Academy was founded in 1768.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk|title=Tracey Emin is made Royal Academician|date=29 March 2007|access-date=11 May 2016|website=The Independent|publisher=The Independent (UK)|last=Roberts|first=Geneviève}}</ref> In February 2013, she was named as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3J92brPmK0hskzhpTV3CrZ0/the-power-list-2013|title=The Power List 2013|access-date=10 May 2016|publisher=Woman's Hour}}</ref>

In response to the question "[D]oes society sufficiently value women artists?", Emin answered, "No. Of course not. But it's changing slowly. We probably just need another 200 years."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.redonline.co.uk/red-women/interviews/tracey-emin-interview|title=Tracey Emin: I'm Not Flaky And I Don't Compromise|date=15 October 2015|access-date=24 October 2015|publisher=RedOnline.co.uk|last=Groskop|first=Viv}}</ref>

Emin does not overtly appear as a feminist artist, nor does she believe so herself. In an interview with Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Emin stated that she is a feminist, but not a feminist artist.<ref>{{Citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg5ad44knPA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Kg5ad44knPA| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=INTIMATE WITH TRACEY EMIN – MY BED, 2012|date=28 November 2012 |access-date=7 December 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Emin discusses sexism from the viewpoint of the being a female victim. Though Emin's subversion of feminine stereotypes, Sophie Lloyd in her article describes her work as, "…[embodying] a change in perception of female sexuality that was in line with third-wave feminism, with women defining beauty and sexuality on their own terms."<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=WHAT TRACEY EMIN'S BED DID FOR FEMINISM|date=23 June 2015|url=http://untitled-magazine.com/what-tracey-emins-bed-did-for-feminism/|publisher=untitled-magazine.com|access-date=7 December 2015}}</ref> By narrating such harrowed and tortured memories, Emin uses vulnerability to tell not only her own struggles, but the struggles that many women may face while finding themselves.<ref name=":0"/>

Emin openly discusses her 1998 installation ''[[My Bed]]'' for audiences and interviewers alike. She has been as saying that, "By realizing how separate I was from it, I separated myself from the bed. I wasn't there any more."<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Two Beds and the Burdens of Feminism|url=http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/two-beds-and-the-burdens-of-feminism|magazine=The New Yorker|date=6 April 2015|access-date=7 December 2015}}</ref> This notion of a female using the domestic space and then removing herself from the environment, thus confronting stereotypes and taboos in a confessional work was a controversial event. Feminists critics have described Emin as using the historical notion of the bedroom and its importance for female experiences, as a site for crude intervention.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|title=Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas & Rachael Whiteread: Did feminism feature as a part of Young British Art?|url=https://chalkjournal.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/emin-lucas-whiteread|website=chalkjournal.wordpress.com|date=19 April 2012|access-date=7 December 2015}}</ref>

John Molyneux explains in his article ''Emin Matters'', that her work revolves around class, sex and art itself. He writes that, "What she does do is present herself as culturally working class…She makes no attempt to engage in 'intellectual art speak' but sticks to unaffected everyday language," employing a strategy that doesn't place her in authority over her viewers or peers.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|title=Emin matters – International Socialism|date=6 April 2005|url=http://isj.org.uk/emin-matters|publisher=isj.org.uk|access-date=7 December 2015}}</ref> However, her class background contradicts this tactic of equal understanding. Emin's mother until age seven owned a hotel in Margate, but bankruptcy and poverty ensued only when she broke up with Emin's father.<ref name=":2"/> While she may use street language, swear words, grammatical errors and misspellings to convey a primarily middle-class female experience, Emin now functions as a boss of her own art business and exists within the elite upper class.<ref name=":2"/> Her relationship with sex is a major theme and aspect of her work. Feminist writers have reviewed Emin's pieces as containing, "…no element of eroticism or titillation…unlike in Botticelli, Renoir or Klimt. Nor is it sexual fantasy or dreams, as we might find in surrealism, or the sex of the brothel featured so heavily in late 19th-century French art. It is real, everyday sex—as experienced by her, of course, but also by millions of other people".<ref name=":2"/>

==Confessional nature of Emin's work==
While studying painting at the Royal College of Art Emin became disenchanted with the art of painting, "the idea of being a bourgeois artist, making paintings that just got hung in rich people's houses was a really redundant, old fashioned idea that made no sense for the times that we were living in."<ref name="Tracey Emin - The South Bank Show">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxaoAy9oNtY|title=Tracey Emin – The South Bank Show|access-date=10 May 2016|publisher=YouTube}}</ref> She felt there was no point in making art that someone had made decades or centuries before her, "I had to create something totally new or not at all". When asked by a reporter, when she decided that her life 'as Tracey Emin' was going to be her art, she replied '"I realised that I was much better than anything I'd ever made".<ref name="Tracey Emin - The South Bank Show"/>

Roberta Smith of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' says the following about Emin's work: "In her art she tells all, all the truths, both awful and wonderful, but mostly awful, about her life. Physical and psychic pain in the form of rejection, incest, rape, abortion and sex with strangers figure in this tale, as do love, passion and joy."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/1999-05-01_tracey-emin/press/162|title=Tracey Emin – Every Part of Me's Bleeding|date=1 May 1999|access-date=10 May 2016|publisher=lehmannmaupin.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506015614/http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/1999-05-01_tracey-emin/press/162|archive-date=6 May 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Music==
In 1998, Emin duetted with pop singer [[Boy George]] on a song called "Burning Up", released on an 18 track audio CD that accompanied the book ''We love you''.<ref>''We Love You'' (London: Booth-Clibborn Editions/Candy Records, 1998)</ref>

In 2005, Emin compiled a CD of her favourite music called ''Music To Cry To'', which was released and sold by the UK household furnishings retailer and brand [[Habitat (retailer)|Habitat]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Tracey-Emin-Music-To-Cry-To/release/2098920|title=Tracey Emin – Music To Cry To|publisher=discogs|access-date=10 May 2016}}</ref>

In 2009, Emin designed the album artwork for a release by singer/songwriter [[Harper Simon]], son of [[Paul Simon]]. The front cover depicts an aeroplane, drawn in Emin's scratchy monoprint style.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/incoming/article7099558.ece|title=UK News, World News and Opinion|work=[[The Times]]|access-date=10 May 2016}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

==Health==
In spring 2020, Emin was diagnosed with squamous-cell [[bladder cancer]].<ref name="BBC">{{cite news |title=Tracey Emin reveals she has had cancer operation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54717609 |access-date=3 December 2020 |work=BBC News |date=28 October 2020}}</ref> She underwent an operation to remove her bladder and several adjacent organs ([[radical cystectomy]] and full [[hysterectomy]]<ref name=":6" />) that summer 2020, and this left her in [[Remission (medicine)|remission]], but with a [[stoma (medicine)|stoma]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Tracey Emin opens up about cancer diagnosis |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/tracey-emin-cancer-diagnosis-surgery-details-of-love-me-too-b1403284.html |website=The Independent |access-date=3 December 2020 |language=en |date=28 October 2020}}</ref>

In December 2023, Emin was travelling from Australia to Thailand on the way back to the United Kingdom, when she experienced complications from an operation on her [[small intestine]], which she said "nearly exploded". She was subsequently hospitalised in [[Phuket]], Thailand.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/18/tracey-emin-recovering-in-thailand-after-her-intestine-nearly-exploded|title = Tracey Emin recovering in Thailand after her 'intestine nearly exploded'|last = Cain|first = Sian|date = 18 December 2023|accessdate = 19 December 2023|newspaper = [[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

==Charity work==

Emin is well known for her charity work; she has raised over a million pounds for children's charities such as the [[NSPCC]] and for HIV/AIDS charities including the [[Terrence Higgins Trust]]. She frequently donates original artworks for charity auctions, and has often adopted the role of auctioneer on the charity night to help increase the highest bid.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}

In June 2007, on returning from the [[Venice Biennale]], Emin donated a piece of artwork, a handsewn blanket called ''Star Trek Voyager'' to be auctioned at [[Elton John]]'s annual glamorous White Tie & Tiara Ball to raise money for The Elton John AIDS Foundation. The piece of artwork sold for £800,000.<ref name="white"/> Also in June 2007, Emin's neon work ''Keep Me Safe'' reached the highest price ever (at that time) made for one of her neon works of over £60,000.<ref name=autogenerated8/>

Emin has participated in ''[[The Independent]]'' newspaper's ''Christmas Appeal'' for many years, where she has offered for auction bespoke artworks and also drawing lessons with the artist. In December 2006, her lot raised £14,000 for a one-on-one drawing lesson, over champagne and cake, with the artist.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/appeals/2006-indy-appeal/independent-appeal-emins-art-lessons-go-for-16314000-in-record-bid-429566.html|title=Emin's art lessons in record bid|work=The Independent|location=London, UK|first=Louise|last=Jury|date=22 December 2006}}</ref> The following year, in December 2007, her lot raised £25,150 for their appeal offering a special unique drawing of the highest bidder's pet embroidered onto a cushion in Emin's trademark style.<ref>Dugan, Emily (21 December 2007), [https://archive.today/20120803203002/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/appeals/indy-appeal/emin-artwork-goes-for-25150-as-auction-raises-more-than-100000-766422.html "Emin artwork goes for 25,150 as auction raises more than 100,000"], ''The Independent''. Retrieved 17 January 2010.</ref>

In January 2008, Emin went to Uganda where she had set up the brand new "Tracey Emin Library"  at the rural Forest High School. She explained in her newspaper column, "Schools here don't have libraries. In fact, rural areas have very little. Most have no doctor, no clinic, no hospital; schools are few and far between. Education cannot afford to be a priority, but it should be... I think this library may be just the beginning."<ref>Emin, Tracey (25 January 2008), [https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/tracey-emin/tracey-emin-my-life-in-a-column-773709.html "Tracey Emin: My Life In A Column"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080904214249/http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/tracey-emin/tracey-emin-my-life-in-a-column-773709.html |date=4 September 2008 }}, ''The Independent''. Retrieved 16 January 2010.</ref>

On [[Valentine's Day]] 2008, Emin donated a red, heart-shaped neon artwork called ''I Promise To Love You'' (2007) for a charity auction to raise money for [[The Global Fund]], which helps women and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa. The auction was called ''(Auction) RED''. The work sold for a record price $220,000,<ref>Gleadall, Colin (19 February 2008), [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/19/basales119.xml "Art sales: Bono breaks the mould"]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309110847/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2008%2F02%2F19%2Fbasales119.xml |date=9 March 2008 }}, ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved 17 January 2010.</ref> which was much higher than the guide estimates of between $60,000 and $80,000.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}

In 2023, Tracey Emin opened TKE Studios in Margate housing affordable spaces for professional artists to work (TKE Studio Members), as well as the ‘Tracey Emin Artist Residency’ (TEAR) programme.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-06-02 |title=Tracey Emin: 'I'm a much better artist after cancer' |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65783981 |access-date=2023-12-05}}</ref> TKE Studio Members include [[Studio Lenca]], [[Vanessa Raw]] and [[Lindsey Mendick]]. Graduates of TEAR include [[Bianca Raffaella]], Helen Teede and Emmie Nume.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About 1 |url=https://www.traceyeminfoundation.com/studio-lenca |access-date=2023-12-05 |website=Tracey Emin Foundation |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Political activities==
[[File:Boris & Tracey Emin.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Tracey Emin with [[Boris Johnson]] in 2010. Both are prominent [[British Turks|Britons of Turkish heritage]].]]
Emin has been a critic of [[Taxation in the United Kingdom|Britain's income tax regime]], stating "I'm simply not willing to pay tax at 50%", she is "very seriously considering leaving Britain", and suggests she will live in France. "The French have lower tax rates and they appreciate arts and culture."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/oct/04/tracey-emin-tax-protest-france|work=The Guardian|date=4 October 2009|title=Tracey Emin threatens to quit Britain over top tax rate|author=Sam Jones|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Brooks, Richard|date=4 October 2009|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6860232.ece|title=Tracey Emin: Stuff your 50% tax, I'm taking my tent to France|work=[[The Times]]|location=London}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Emin has since denied that she intends to leave the country, stating that a journalist she spoke to previously exaggerated her comments, and that London is her home, and is the context in which she belongs.<ref>''Mark Lawson Talks to Tracey Emin'', BBC 4, 14 March 2010.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/tracey-emin-lady-liberty-1827497.html|title=Tracey Emin: She's not about to leave Britain as a tax exile|date=26 November 2009|work=The Independent|author=David Usborne|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icorrect.com/search/node/tracey%20emin%20tax|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130624175301/https://www.icorrect.com/search/node/tracey%20emin%20tax|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 June 2013|title=ICorrect – The Universal Website for Corrections|access-date=18 November 2016}}</ref>

''[[The Independent]]'' newspaper reported in August 2010 that Emin is thought of as a supporter of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/artists-flinch-at-honour-of-hanging-in-tory-offices-2065546.html|title=Artists flinch at 'honour' of hanging in Tory offices – Culture minister Ed Vaizey says he ruffled feathers after selecting contemporary artworks to adorn Westminster|author=Arifa Akbar|date=30 August 2010|work=The Independent on Sunday|access-date=5 September 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref>

In an interview with ''[[New Statesman]]'', she revealed that she voted for the Conservatives at the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]], adding, "We've got the best government at the moment that we've ever had."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/10/voting-tory-emin-melvyn|title=Preview: NS Interview with Tracey Emin|first=Sophie | last=Elmhirst|author-link=Sophie Elmhirst|date=8 October 2010|work=The Independent on Sunday |access-date=28 March 2011}}</ref> She has stated that she is an 'outsider' in the art world, as a result of voting Conservative. She is a [[Monarchism|royalist]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/8980125/Tracey-Emin-Im-abused-by-other-artists-for-voting-Tory.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/8980125/Tracey-Emin-Im-abused-by-other-artists-for-voting-Tory.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Tracey Emin: I'm abused by other artists for voting Tory|date=28 December 2011 |access-date=11 September 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In April 2014, Emin, who has a home and studio in Spitalfields, publicly called to save an East London newsagent who faced eviction from [[Old Spitalfields Market]], after 22 years in business. She started a petition to save newsagent Ashok Patel's business, which was signed by 1,000 people.<ref>Anny Shaw (25 April 2014), [http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Tracey-Emin-steps-in-to-save-Spitalfields-newsagent/32399 "Tracey Emin steps in to save Spitalfields newsagent"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140720091630/http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Tracey-Emin-steps-in-to-save-Spitalfields-newsagent/32399 |date=20 July 2014 }}, ''[[The Art Newspaper]]''.</ref>

In August 2014, Emin was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ''[[The Guardian]]'' expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's [[2014 Scottish independence referendum|referendum on that issue]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/07/celebrities-open-letter-scotland-independence-full-text |title=Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and list of signatories |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=7 August 2014 |access-date=26 August 2014}}</ref>

==Awards and honours==
In 2007, London's Royal Academy of Arts elected Tracey Emin as a Royal Academician and four years later, the Academy appointed Emin a Professor of Drawing. The University of Kent also awarded Emin an honorary doctorate in 2007.<ref name=":5"/>

Emin was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[2013 New Year Honours]] for services to the arts.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60367 |date=29 December 2012|page=7 |supp=y}}</ref><ref name="CBE">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20860327|title=New Year Honours 2013: At a glance|work=BBC News|date=29 December 2012|access-date=29 December 2012}}</ref> In February 2013, she was named one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by ''[[Woman's Hour]]'' on [[BBC Radio 4]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qlvb/features/power-list-100|title=BBC Radio 4 – Woman's Hour – The Power List 2013|publisher=BBC|access-date=10 May 2016}}</ref>

Emin was made an honorary freewoman of Margate in 2022.<ref name="WhatDoTheyKnow">{{Whatdotheyknow.com|https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/904194/response/2136416/attach/2/Honours%20Board%202.JPG.jpg|Photograph of honours board|904194|Charter Trustees of the Town of Margate|30 September 2022}}</ref>

Emin was appointed [[Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (DBE) in the [[2024 Birthday Honours]] for services to art.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The King's Birthday Honours list 2024 in full - Manchester Evening News |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/kings-birthday-honours-list-2024-29356299 |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk|date=14 June 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6669879843c77d8616f76033/Birthday_Honours_List_2024.pdf |title=Awards for Birthday Honours List 2024}}</ref>

In December 2024, Tracy Emin was included on the [[BBC]]'s ''[[100 Women (BBC)|100 Women]]'' list.<ref name=bbc>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/resources/idt-4f79d09b-655a-42f8-82b4-9b2ecebab611|title=BBC 100 Women 2024: Who is on the list this year?|publisher=BBC|date=3 December 2024|accessdate=3 December 2024 |language=}}</ref>

==Art market==
Emin's primary galleries are White Cube in London (since 1993), Lorcan O'Neill in Rome and [[Xavier Hufkens]] in Brussels.<ref name="blouinartinfo.com">Colin Gleadell (20 January 2013), [http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/857213/artist-dossier-how-tracey-emin-lured-buyers-from-kate-moss-to "Tracey Emin Lured Buyers From Kate Moss to Charles Saatchi"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529230151/http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/857213/artist-dossier-how-tracey-emin-lured-buyers-from-kate-moss-to |date=29 May 2016 }}, ''[[ARTINFO]]''. Retrieved 10 May 2016.</ref> In 2017, Emin and Lehmann Maupin ended their working relationship.<ref>Georgina Adam (6 May 2017), [http://theartnewspaper.com/reports/frny17/tracey-emin-and-lehmann-maupin-no-longer-in-bed/ Tracey Emin and Lehmann Maupin no longer in bed] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506095545/http://theartnewspaper.com/reports/frny17/tracey-emin-and-lehmann-maupin-no-longer-in-bed/ |date=6 May 2017 }} ''[[The Art Newspaper]]''.</ref>

[[Charles Saatchi]], who was best known as the most high-profile, high-spending collector of contemporary British art, bought ''My Bed'' (1998) for £150,000 ($248,000) from Lehmann Maupin's "Every Part of Me's Bleeding," the exhibition that won the artist a nomination for the 1999 [[Turner Prize]].<ref name="blouinartinfo.com"/><ref name=TTeeman>Teeman, Tim. "Get into Bed with Tracey Emin for $2 Million: The Sale of a British Art Icon." ''The Daily Beast'' 28 May 2014 ProQuest. 3 March 2017</ref> In 2013, on the occasion of a [[Christie's]] London sale that raised a total of 3.1&nbsp;million pounds ($5&nbsp;million) in aid of the [[Saatchi Gallery]]'s policy of free entry, ''To Meet My Past'' (2002) sold for $778,900, establishing a new record for the artist.<ref>Scott Reyburn (18 October 2013), [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-17/tracey-emin-s-bed-sells-for-record-778-900-in-london.html "Tracey Emin's Bed Sells for Record $778,900 in London"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113174706/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-17/tracey-emin-s-bed-sells-for-record-778-900-in-london.html |date=13 November 2013 }}, ''[[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]]''.</ref> At another Christie's auction in 2014, ''My Bed'' was sold to White Cube founding director [[Jay Jopling]]<ref>Anny Shaw (3 July 2014), [http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/London-contemporary-sales-put-their-best-faces-forward/33100 "London contemporary sales put their best faces forward"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912091513/http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/London-contemporary-sales-put-their-best-faces-forward/33100 |date=12 September 2014 }}, ''The Art''.</ref> for 2.5&nbsp;million pounds, including buyer's commission, once again to benefit the Saatchi Gallery's foundation.<ref>Katya Kazakina (2 July 2014), [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-01/emin-s-messy-bed-fetches-4-3-million-in-artist-s-record.html "Emin's Record Messy Bed Boosts Christie's London Auction"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218230346/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-01/emin-s-messy-bed-fetches-4-3-million-in-artist-s-record.html |date=18 December 2014 }}, ''[[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]]''. Retrieved 10 May 2016.</ref> It was estimated that the price of ''My Bed'' would sell between 800,000 and 1.2 million pounds.<ref name=TTeeman/><ref name=CMilliard>Milliard, Coline. "Christie's Rides Tracey Emin's ''Bed'' to £99 Million Night." artnetnews 1 July 2014. 3 March 2017</ref> Before the sale, Emin said that "what I would really love is that someone did buy it and they donated it to the Tate."<ref name=CMilliard/>

Her most commonly auctioned sculptural works are phrases in her own handwriting set in neon, usually issued in editions of three, with two artist's proofs.<ref name="blouinartinfo.com"/>
In 2011, British Prime Minister [[David Cameron]] added an artwork with 'more passion' in neon by Emin in his private apartment at [[10 Downing Street]].<ref>"Passion, please", ''[[The Spectator]]'', 4 April 2015, p. 5.</ref> In January 2022, Emin requested that the artwork be removed in response to the [[Westminster lockdown parties controversy]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Tracey Emin requests No 10 take down her neon artwork |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60066844 |website=BBC News |access-date=20 January 2022 |date=20 January 2022}}</ref>

In April 2014, Emin participated at The Other Art Fair for unrepresented artists.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tracey Emin Creates 'Affordable' Work for The Other Art Fair|url=http://www.designcurial.com/news/tracey-emin-creates-affordable-work-for-the-other-art-fair-4219541/|newspaper=Design Curial|access-date=23 April 2014}}</ref>

''I’ve Got It All'' (2000) sold at £74,500.<ref name="collectordaily/christies-london">{{cite web |title=Auction Results: Post War & Contemporary Art Evening and Day Auctions, October 16 and 17, 2015 @Christie's London |url=https://collectordaily.com/auction-results-post-war-contemporary-art-evening-and-day-auctions-october-16-and-17-2015-christies-london/ |website=Collector Daily |access-date=23 November 2024 |language=en |date=21 October 2015}}</ref><!-- https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/object/2001.721  https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6101431  https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/collection/17884-tracey-emin-i've-got-it-all   -->

''Like A Cloud of Blood'' (2022), among the first paintings Emin made following her six-month recovery from cancer treatment, was sold by the artist in October 2022 at Christie's, to benefit the Tracey Emin Foundation, in support the work of TKE Studios, a subsidised professional artist's studios with an additional twenty residencies including a free arts educational program. The deeply personal large-scale canvas sold for £2,322,000 — a new record price for a painting by the artist.<ref>{{cite web |title=David Hockney, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Beauford Delaney lead Christie's 20th/21st Century Frieze Week season in London |url=https://www.christies.com/features/20th-21st-century-london-frieze-week-wrap-report-12475-3.aspx |website=Christie's |access-date=17 January 2023 |date=14 October 2022}}</ref>

==See also==
*''[[What Do Artists Do All Day?]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*Elliot, Patrick and Schnabel, Julian. ''Tracey Emin: Twenty Years'' (National Galleries of Scotland, 2008); {{ISBN|978-1-906270-08-7}}.
*Brown, Neal. ''Tracey Emin (Tate's Modern Artists Series)'' (London: Tate, 2006); {{ISBN|1-85437-542-3}}.
*Doyle, Jennifer. ''Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire'' (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006); {{ISBN|0-8166-4526-4}}.
*{{cite book|title=Art Now|editor-first1=Uta|editor-last1=Grosenick|editor-first2=Burkhard|editor-last2=Riemschneider|publisher=Taschen|location=Köln|edition=25th anniversary|year=2005|pages=100–103|isbn=9783822840931|oclc=191239335}}
*Merck, Mandy and Townsend, Chris (eds). ''The Art of Tracey Emin'' (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002); {{ISBN|0-500-28385-0}}
*Remes, Outi. "After Bad Taste: Tracey Emin's Work on Abortion and Other Confessions" in Harris, Jonathan (ed.), ''Inside the Death Drive Excess and Apocalypse in the World of the Chapman Brothers'' (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press and Tate Liverpool, 2010), pp.&nbsp;119–43; {{ISBN|978-1-84631-192-5}}.
*Remes, Outi. "Replaying the Old Stereotypes into an Artistic Role: the case of Tracey Emin" in ''[[Women's History Review]]'' (Vol. 18, No. 4, September 2009), pp.&nbsp;561–77.<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed -->

==External links==
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*{{Art UK bio}}
*[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2010/jan/27/foundling-museum-tracy-emin Film about joint 2010 exhibition with Paula Rego and Mat Collishaw at the Foundling Museum – The Guardian]
*[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/dec/03/art Interview on ''The Guardian'' website] on her debut film ''Top Spot''
*[https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2003/may/25/unitedkingdom.observerescapesection Interview in ''The Observer''] about Margate
*[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2004/may/27/art.britartfire Tracey Emin interviewed in ''The Guardian''] about Momart Fire
*[http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A3784782 h2g2 article on Tracey Emin]
*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mad-Tracey-Emin-From-Margate/dp/B00X1NPEXG "Mad Tracey From Margate" dvd]
*[http://www.whenwherewh.at/blog/9-affective-rooms Tracey Emin I Egon Schiele "Where I Want to Go" Exhibition at Leopold Museum Vienna]. Interview with exhibition co-curator Diethard Leopold

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