7. Tracey Emin
In 1993, the artist opened a shop Sarah Lucas, called The Shop at 103 Bethnal Green Road in Bethnal Green. This sold works by the two of them, including T-shirts and ashtrays with Damien Hirst’s picture stuck to the bottom. Lucas paid Emin a wage to mind the shop and Emin also made extra money by writing letters to people asking them to invest £20 in her as an artist, one being Jay Jopling, who became her dealer. Collector Charles Saatchi bought My Bed (1998) for £150,000 from Lehmann Maupin’s “Every Part of Me’s Bleeding,” the exhibition that won the artist a nomination for the 1999 Turner Prize. At a Christie’s auction in 2014, My Bed was sold to Jay Jopling for £2.5 million.