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Tracey Emin

British · b. 1963

Contemporary Art

A leading figure of the Young British Artists generation, Emin transforms autobiography into art through neon text, embroidered blankets, drawing, and film. My Bed, shown at the Turner Prize in 1999, brought her wide notoriety. Her work interrogates desire, grief, and the female body with a directness that has become her signature.

Public sculptures and installations

I Want My Time With You

Photo: APK / CC BY 4.0

I Want My Time With You

2018 · St Pancras International, London

A large pink neon inscription in Emin's handwriting sweeps beneath the great Victorian clock at St Pancras International. A permanent commission for one of London's most romantic public spaces.

I Never Stopped Loving You

Photo: Amanda Slater / CC BY-SA 2.0

I Never Stopped Loving You

2010 · Droit House, Stone Pier, Margate

Pink neon text in Emin's own handwriting glows from the facade of Droit House on Margate's Stone Pier each evening at dusk. A love letter to the seaside town where she spent her childhood.

For You

Photo: Phil Nash / CC BY-SA 4.0

For You

2008 · Liverpool Cathedral, Liverpool

Pink neon text reading 'I felt you and I knew you loved me' is permanently installed above the west doors of Liverpool Cathedral. Emin's first major ecclesiastical commission.

On now and coming soon exhibitions

Tracey Emin: A Second Life

Tracey Emin: A Second Life

Until Aug 31

40-year Tracey Emin retrospective: 90+ works including My Bed and new paintings

"Walking into Tate Modern's huge Tracey Emin retrospective is like walking in on her crying, naked, sobbing and snotty, as if you have stumbled into something painfully private. Don't come here looking for a good time – you won't find it. But come looking for pure, unapologetic, undiluted, full-frontal love, grief, heartache and sadness, and you will end up feeling more feelings than you've probably felt for years."

— The Guardian

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