Tracey Emin, YBA Artist, born on July 3, 1963, in Croydon, London, has been given a Damehood in the King's Birthday Honour list 2024. Other art-related honours include the sculptor, jewellery designer and performance artist Andrew Logan, who was awarded an MBE for his...
Forty-five portraits that "represent every woman" cover the three doors that now form the entrance to the National Portrait Gallery. Hand drawn by Tracey Emin and cast in bronze, The Doors (2023) counterbalance the sculpted roundels carved into the Gallery's façade,...
The YBA artist Tracey Emin has requested that her neon sculpture 'More Passion' be removed from the private quarters at 10 Downing Street as a protest to 'Party-Gate' as well as the present Government's handling of the COVID crisis. In a statement on Instagram, Ms...
The Whitechapel Gallery has announced that Tracey Emin (b. 1963, UK) will be the ninth artist to receive the prestigious annual Art Icon award. On Monday 22 March 2022. The award will be presented at a celebration in the gallery. Emin's work is known for its portrayal...
She’s been a major figure in contemporary art for over 25 years; Now In an extensive interview with BBC's Newsnight, Tracey Emin, 57, has spoken candidly about her three-month all clear cancer milestone. I'm not painting because I'm using my willpower to stay alive -...
Tracey Emin is one of the two major survivors from the so-called YBA (Young British Artists) Group that made such a lot of noise in the 1990s. Damien Hirst is the other - the rest have largely faded away. She didn’t win the Turner Prize, then in its palmy days, as...
Just as the new lockdown was being announced, the Sunday Times (UK) was unusually full of stuff about contemporary art. The main colour supplement led with a piece about Tracey Emin, with a cover image of the artist. This had obviously been commissioned as publicity...
Tracey Emin, the YBA artist, best known for her Turner Prize-nominated 'Unmade Bed' has revealed that she has been suffering from bladder cancer. Last summer, a cancerous tumour was found after undergoing severe pain in her abdomen. She said. Yesterday, I was crying...
The Royal Academy of Arts plans to go ahead with an exhibition bringing together for the first time the work of the British artist Tracey Emin RA (b.1963) and the Norwegian Expressionist Edvard Munch (1863-1944), two artists born 100 years apart. Long fascinated and...