Turner Prize: My Bed

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/history/1999.shtm

‘If there’s no genuine feeling it comes across as if they’ve just chosen a subject and done a small project on it. What I’m doing is a life-long project.’

– Tracey Emin as quoted in The Big Issue, October 1999

‘It makes me so angry to see these so-called artists glorifying a messy bedroom. What is the world coming to when a major art exhibition sends out this message?’

– Mother interviewed in The Sun, October 1999

‘Many modern artists take the view that art should address the more unpleasant realities of life and should not necessarily be conventionally beautiful … Tracey Emin, while controversial, is a well respected contemporary artist of the younger generation and already has an international reputation – My Bed was shown in exhibitions in New York and Tokyo earlier this year.’

– Standard Tate reply letter in response to Tracey Emin complaints

More Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PLjefed9jE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5CZEHd4XCs&feature=PlayList&p=5B10907FC32B9885&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grwM0cgMYLY

tracey emin comment's on another's artwork

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DfVt8RgHEs

Emin and feminism (if it's not already obvious)

http://www.mookychick.co.uk/icon/tracey_emin.php

http://johnmolyneux.blogspot.com/2006/08/emin-phenomenon-or-phenomenal-emin.html

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/Tracey_Emin.php

http://thedailyhavis.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/tracy-emin-feministartist/

http://modern-art.suite101.com/article.cfm/women_artists_tracey_emin

Someone who loves Tracey just as much as I have learned to.

http://artwelove.com/artist/-id/110b4f03

Quotes by Tracey

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/tracey_emin.html

I especially liked...

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

Charities Tracey Supports

http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/560-tracey-emin

Articles on Tracey and her work.

http://jezebel.com/5272588/former-enfant-terrible-tracey-emin-opens-new-show-reveals-even-more

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-05/has-tracey-emin-gone-soft/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/6578782/We-should-worry-that-Tracey-Emin-Hugh-Osmond-and-Michael-Caine-are-fleeing-the-50p-tax-rate.html

http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/tracey-emins-painfully-good-humor/Content?oid=1383096

http://flavorwire.com/53975/tracey-emin-sews-up-exhibitionism

http://badatsports.com/2008/tracy-emins-stupid-project/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6860232.ece

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/tracey-emin-lady-liberty-1827497.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1278012/Tracey-Emin-shows-latest-work-art--black-eye.html

Tracey and Food.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/18/tracey-emin-life-on-a-plate

She has a strange intimate relationship with food and she's not afraid to admit to it. She's not ashamed of her body and her weight.

http://www.tracey-emin.co.uk/emin-articles/tracey-emin-st-johns.html

Columns

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

This has a bunch of things she's written for the Independent.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/tracey-emin/tracey-emin-ive-told-art-to-keep-away-were-going-to-have-a-trial-separation-1642911.html

20 years exhibition.

http://kirstyhall.co.uk/blog/2008/08/tracey-emin-20-years/

Artwork

I Promise to Love You

Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made, detail, 1996

Walking Around My Room (1998)

The Whole Room (1999)

Hellter Fucking Skelter

Sleep(1996)

Tracey: How she Marketed herself.

What a person looks like and acts like says a lot about themselves and in the case of an artist, about their art. Tracey has come off as risky, honest, and crazy. She doesn't really care what people think about her. This shows in her image. To a huge extent I think it's helped her. When I google searched her name, I thought I'd get a lot of images of her artwork like you do when you type in Max Ernst or Cezanne or Warhol. Instead, more of the images were of Tracey herself. She has created and marketed this image of herself that has made her as a person just as popular as her work.

White Cube Exhibition

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6374059.ece

Tracey showing us around her White Cube exhibition.

Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15jVnBlt6e0

It's great that at first this piece comes off as cocky or funny or disgusting, but she talks about how in the end after someone has climbed in and out of the tent they are thinking about who they've slept with. They realize the intimacy and humility displayed in the piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPNp4a1HMPk&feature=fvw

one of her exhibitions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bW6iS7g9ww&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKNr2LOkXYE&feature=related

Tracey super drunk. She doesn't deny her drinking issues either. I wonder why her finger is broken.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YwVrWJlIRY&feature=related

a bunch of her work in a slideshow format

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuxZdrtcIfc&feature=related

she doesn't deny that she has issues. She frequently talks about how she is mentally incapable to take care of herself let alone another human being. She's also very dramatic. I think the way people act says a lot about their perspective on their own art.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhm8FdwrIPY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2aSJ65ejf8&feature=fvw

Her ability to let lose makes me like her even more. This is definitely, actually, her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi2z-zpA6gg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu8nWxNoMnI

"The work speaks to you directly." It's amazing when people speak about her as vulnerable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CyKmO90Mtg&feature=related

Her art is about herself, but how that relates to the public. I also enjoyed how the narrator in this video talks about her line-work as scratchy and she references it as barbed wire. I myself have a hard time making confident and direct lines; she makes that okay. It's okay to be sketchy.

"There is nothing girl about me anymore."

Her official website and how she sells itemized work

print

notebook

print

mug

http://shop.emininternational.com/

It's kind of funny how she has made her work into household objects. I can only begin to express how this references feminist idealology.

More of the Same

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/emin_tracey.html

This site has some of the galleries she has shown work in, in addition to some sites she has once been on.

Honesty

She is so brutally honest. Her work is so visually abrupt and the words only add to it. We very frequently talk about how in drawings with words, the words take away from it. In Emin's work the words seem to make the piece, with the visuals of women's spread legs being minor and secondary to the message displayed with verbiage.

http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/artists/tracey-emin/

I especially like the piece Just Like Nothing, 2009.

" Emin reveals her hopes, humiliations, failures and successes in candid and, at times, excoriating work that is frequently both tragic and humorous."

http://www.whitecube.com/artists/emin/

How true.

Dedication Site

In this piece, Everyone I ever slept with, Emin not just includes all of her boyfriends and sexual partners, but also her childhood relative that she SLEPT with and her 2 aborted children. It becomes kind of scary, but at the same time the way she is playing with how we use the word "Slept" is beyond intriguing. I wonder if she included the man who raped her...

http://www.tracey-emin.co.uk/tracey-emin-home.html

This site has a lot of really great information, including a biography, descriptions of many of her pieces, some of her written work, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_British_Artists

It's interesting that Emin was in a group called the YBAs (Young British Artists) that was all about conceptual art and yet her boyfriend, Billy Childish, was all about avoiding conceptual art.

Also great to know she worked with Damien Hirst.

Work at the Saatchi Gallery

(Untitled, 2000)

My Bed (1998)

I've Got it All (2000)

http://www.saatchigallery.co.uk/artists/tracey_emin.htm/artpages/tracey_emin_i_got_all.htm

I've got It All (2000) and Untitled (2000) are probably my favorite pieces on this site. I love how completely comfortable, open, and honest Emin is. It makes me want to lock myself in a gallery naked with only painting supplies.

Wikipedia

Now, I know we don't always trust Wikipedia as a credible source but the information I found on this page is extremely extensive and helpful. I especially liked looking at the attached links on her former boyfriend Billy Childish and his movement "Stuckism," which Tracey helped to name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracey_Emin