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Tracey Emin
Shortlisted: 1999
Tracey Emin makes paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture, as well as working in performance and
installation, film, video, embroidery-collage, neon and written text.
Critics have noted the wistfulness, poetry, humour and honesty that underpin the harrowing frankness and unreserved sexual revelation of her obsessively confessional works.
My Bed, the work shown at the Turner Prize exhibition in 1999, graphically illustrates themes of loss, sickness, fertility, copulation, conception and death - almost the whole
human life-cycle in the place where most of us spend our most significant moments.
My Bed 1998 (installation view)
Mattress, bed, linens, pillows, suitcase, ephemera, 79 x 211 x 234
The Saatchi Collection, London
© Courtesy the artist and Jay Jopling/White Cube (London)
Photo: Tate Photography
Tracey Emin was born in London, England in 1963.
Between 1983 and 1989 she studied at Maidstone College of Art and then attended the Royal College of Art.
In 1999 Emin was shortlisted for her works exhibited at Lehmann Maupin and Sagacho Exhibition Space, which showed her 'vibrancy and flair for self-expression' that revealed
a 'frank and brutal honesty.'
This information has been taken from The Turner Prize: Twenty Years,
by Virginia Button, Tate Publishing, 2003.
 View Tracey Emin in the Tate Collection
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