Tracey Emin

born 1963

The End of Love 2024
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Artworks

Unmade bed with rumpled white linens and pillows, surrounded on a blue rug by scattered items including bottles, newspapers, a stuffed toy dog and a black belt, a battered suitcase nearby on bare wooden floor

My Bed

On display at Tate Modern part of Tracey Emin: A Second Life

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Smudged blue handwritten text reading 'I'LL KILL YOU BUT IM NOT GOING TO CRACK', with scrawled lines beneath: 'BUT IF YOU HAVE LIED TO ME I WILL DESTROY YOU... MABE IN THE NEXT WORLD'

Going to Crack

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Scratchy blue monoprint on cream paper: the mirror-written words 'SOMETHINGS WRONG' scrawled above a naked lower body with splayed legs, drawn in wavering line with a smaller line of reversed handwriting above

Terribly Wrong

On display at Tate Modern part of Tracey Emin: A Second Life

80%-20% Canada

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Sparse black line monoprint of a naked woman standing beneath a shower, head bowed and one hand lifted to her hair, on a mostly empty cream sheet with a scrawled inscription dated 'May 95' at the lower left

Sad Shower in New York

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From the Week of Hell ‘94

On display at Tate Modern part of Tracey Emin: A Second Life

Scratchy handwritten monoprint, much of it in mirror writing, with the legible words 'NALAND ROCK AND FUKED ME' above small doodles of a building, cigarettes and banknotes

Fuck You Eddy

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Artist as subject

A naked woman crouches on dark floorboards facing the corner of a rough whitewashed wooden hut, seen from behind, her hair falling forward and a small tattoo on her left shoulder blade

The Last Thing I Said to You was Don’t Leave Me Here II

Nine pages of dense handwritten notes in pale blue ink arranged in a three-by-three grid, each sheet listing short dated autobiographical entries, one line scribbled out in darker blue

Tracey Emin C.V.

On display at Tate Modern part of Tracey Emin: A Second Life

Tracey Emin C.V. Cunt Vernacular

Five pale wood frames on a pink wall hold family mementoes: two snapshots of an elderly woman, an old photograph stitched to a lace doily, a handwritten memory text, and a small boxed doll in a white lace gown

May Dodge, My Nan

Two long rows of small white frames holding handwritten pages on pale turquoise paper, hung against a white wall with two colour photographs of a young child at the centre

Exploration of the Soul

On display at Tate Modern part of Tracey Emin: A Second Life

A woman sits reading in a letter-covered armchair set alone in red desert scrub, holding open a book titled 'Exploration of the Soul', with a flat-topped mesa on the horizon under a blue sky

Monument Valley (Grand Scale)

Albert, Bert and Andy (I couldn’t stop it)

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Stories

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Walks of art: Grace Dent on the YBAs and Shoreditch

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Tracey Emin in Conversation

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Tracey Emin in conversation with Peter Blake

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Tracey Emin, 'My Bed'

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