Tracey Emin



Profile:
Full name: Tracey Karima Emin

Area of interest: Reflections on her life

Journals/Organisation: The Independent

Email:

Personal website: http://www.emininternational.com

Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/tracey-emin

Blog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/traceyemin

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Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/tracey_emin not verified!



Biography:
About: http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/academicians/painters/tracey-emin-ra,625,AR.html

Education: Maidstone Art College: Printing; Royal College of Art: Painting (MA)

Career:
 * Tracey-Emin.co: biography

Current position/role: Columnist, 2005/2009


 * also writes/written for:

Other roles/Main role: Artist, Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy

Other activities: Professor of Confessional Art at the European Graduate School

Disclosures:

Viewpoints/Insight:
 * Patrick Barkham: Tracey Emin takes on the censors over 'Orwellian' 18 rating for biopic The Guardian, 22nd October 2004
 * Interview: Wearing her art on her sleeve by Alistair Duncan, Voyager magazine
 * Tracey Emin threatens to quit Britain over top tax rate - Guardian.co.uk, 4th October 2009

Broadcast media:

Video: see IMDb

Controversy/Criticism: Mark Sweney: Plagiarism makes for perfect PR, Comment is free, 4th February 2008

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Books & Debate:

 * Exploration Of The Soul (1994)
 * This is another place (2002) OCLC 53201197
 * Details of Depression (2003)
 * Strangeland (2005)
 * Tracey Emin: Works 1963/2006 (2006) OCLC 77572179

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The Independent:
Column name: My Life In A Column

Remit/Info: Reflections on her life

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Role: Columnist

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Email:

Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/tracey-emin

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Friday

Regularity: Weekly

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Articles:

 * What I liked best about the club was Michael - The Colony Room was a very eccentric place to hang out, quite mad - The Independent, 9th June 2010
 * My favourite artist of all time - Edvard Munch, creator of The Scream, inspired Emin, creator of Everyone I’ve Ever Slept With. Here she explains how - The Times, 8th June 2009
 * Ghosts of my past - It took her a long time to master, but drawing has always been a very personal passion for Tracey Emin. Here she explains why and chooses her six favourite works - The Guardian, 25th May 2009
 * Go to Margate if you want a dirty weekend - The Times, 9th May 2009


 * I've told Art to keep away. We're going to have a trial separation... - 12th March 2009
 * My heart was like a star that had died, but part of me still shone - 5th March 2009
 * You have to watch out for death when you are most happy - 26th February 2009
 * My head and face became a flash, my body strangely sexy - 19th February 2009
 * I felt that, in return for my children's souls, I had been given my success - 29th January 2009
 * Alan Miller was a true ally. He showed me how to be a painter - 22nd January 2009
 * I want to be suspended in time. Don’t let it move too fast - 15th January 2009
 * My friend Gregor and I fell out when I miaowed during his inaugural speech - 8th January 2009
 * There was someone else in the house – or something else... - 18th December 2008
 * Have you ever been consumed from the inside, the host to something utterly vile? - 11th December 2008
 * I have come to Austria to purge my body and rejuvenate my soul - 4th December 2008
 * I've never shown in Spain before, and it feels very strange and alien - 27th November 2008
 * The police kept asking me, how did you get that line on your face? - 20th November 2008
 * Eventually we ripped up the porno magazine into tiny pieces and let it blow away like confetti - 13th November 2008
 * I know there's another world out there. I can't prove it. But I know it - 6th November 2008
 * The art market is on a knife edge – waiting to see what happens - 16th October 2008
 * I'm really, really in love, passionately in love - 'Art with its big ideas and its engulfing arms picked me up and swept me away' - 8th August 2008
 * I've yet again become my hardest critic - 'To be unpacking my bed sheets from 10 years ago, the detritus of my being, was like unpacking a ghost' - 25th July 2008
 * I've had another killer of a week, hectic, frantic and emotionally draining. I really need a cuddle - 18th July 2008
 * I feel I am a million miles away from everything. I have some space, some time and, most of all, clarity - 11th July 2008
 * I'm having a dinner party, but what I should be having is a Roman orgy, with lions standing guard - 4th July 2008
 * Everybody you have ever known, in every way possible, they are still there in your head, somewhere - 27th June 2007
 * Every large-scale decision I make involves Docket. The idea that he is seriously ill is making me afraid - 20th June 2008
 * I saw so many young girls with babies in Folkestone. I thought about making some art for them, and about them - 13th June 2008
 * If any elements in my room at the Royal Academy shock, I'm happy. I want people to start feeling art, not just look at it - 6th June 2008
 * Life is spiritually heavy. Ideas are concocted from a gluttonous, gloopy soup, stirred by a giant spoon - 30th May 2008
 * My world is now truly glamorous: every girl's dream; except that, as a child, I didn't have many dreams - 23rd May 2008
 * Today, I thought I would combust. I imagine Mum coming in and there's just a singed shirt-cuff - 16th May 2008
 * All the love and forgiveness in the world never stops me asking the same five words: Why did you leave us? - 9th May 2008
 * I would seriously like to to stop being Tracey Emin for a while. I'd like to give me a shakedown - 2nd May 2008
 * This week, someone sent me an email asking if happy was a feeling that actually existed in my life - 25th April 2008
 * Margate should be somewhere I rejoice to come back to. But every time I visit I am filled with dread - 18th April 2008
 * Two days ago I decided I wanted to have a baby. It wasn't a broody whim: it was like a decision - 11th April 2008
 * I've only ever read one story by Edgar Allan Poe, and to be honest I'm scared of reading another - 4th April 2008
 * I feel very good tucked up in bed on the 53rd floor. Tiny, insignificant and safe. But I dream that I am a giant - 28th March 2008
 * There were no souls, no ghosts, in that graveyard. The ocean breeze had blown them all away - 21st March 2008
 * I used to think about sex all the time. Quite a contradiction for someone who's monogamous - 14th March 2008
 * I tend to say sorry every 10 minutes. When I've been drunk, I've said some of the cruellest things - 7th March 2008
 * Scotland is very romantic and unspoilt. It's easy to feel spiritually involved, to imagine ghosts and mystic worlds - 29th February 2008
 * Sometimes I think that we are all victims of the evil mystery of where time disappears to - 22nd February 2008
 * The pressure to love and be loved is extraordinary. Maybe some people are put on this planet to be singular units - 15th February 2008
 * Some people really have the ability to hurt. For some reason, they can touch you in a very spiteful way - 8th February 2008
 * I wanted to see something I had never seen before. What I saw was my own ignorance and naivety - 1st February 2008
 * In a place where nobody knows who I am, or what I do, stands my library - 25th January 2008
 * I am the only guest here. A strange predicament, to be alone in paradise. But that's exactly how I wanted it - 18th January 2008
 * My whole notion of truth has shifted. It keeps moving and I can't tie it down and this frightens me - 11th January 2008
 * On New Year's Day I watch the local dhow race. A few hundred miles away, the scene is death and destruction - 4th January 2008



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 * Wikipedia bio
 * Saatchi-gallery