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Collection: Tracey Emin

A member of the infamous generation of artists known as the YBAs (Young British artists) she became well known for her multi-disciplinary practice involving film, drawing, neon, embroidery and installation work. 

Emin’s deeply personal work is centred around a unique conceptual mode of artmaking that embraces both tenderness and audacity. Her works have often proved both era-defining and controversial involving a heavily autobiographical and confessional narrative that takes a frank examination of her own life and body. Emin has exhibited internationally and is frequently considered one of the most collectable Blue-chip artists that the UK has produced. 

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. In 2024 Emin was appointed Dame commander of the order of the British empire (DBE). 

 

Tracey Emin