Initial artist research - Tracey Emin

👋Today I'm going to introduce you to a very interesting and slightly controversial artist from the UK whose art and creativity will help me with my major project. 

Tracey Emin - Was born in London in 1963. She still lives and work in London and France. 

Tracey Emin

Emin's Diploma Work, "Trying to Find You", shows how much she was influenced by expressionist painters Edvard Munch and Egon Schiele even though her work is openly feminist. Emin's emotional honesty in reflecting on significant events from her life results in a feeling of intimacy when seeing her art.

As a member of the group of modern artists known as the YBAs (Young British Artists), Tracey Emin first gained attention . This group of artists, who also included Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, and Angus Fairhurst, frequently cooperated and held joint exhibitions (one of Emin's earliest projects was a store she managed in East London alongside Lucas).

She uses a variety of media in her work, including embroidery, sculpture, photography, drawing, painting, video, and installation.

Madonna said about Emin - “intelligent and wounded and not afraid to expose herself. She is provocative but she has something to say”.

This is one of Emin's installations at Royal Academy of Arts. I feel very attached to her work because it reminds me how depression can looks like. In my case it's a perfectly depicted state when nothing around you interests you, you don't even want to get out of bed. You are a mess and you make a mess around you. In my project it could also help me with how to show and organize feelings, colours and space on canvas.

Tracey Emin 'It was all too Much' (2018)

I also choose this this painting because Emin just like me suffers from insomnia. This painting is a visualization of  pain, frustration and misery.  I will try to reflect my emotions in my project so that they are as clear and understandable as in her paintings and installations.

Reference

Tracey Emin: Artist: Royal Academy of Arts (no date) Tracey Emin | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts. Available at: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/tracey-emin-ra (Accessed: January 31, 2023).

Tracey Emin (no date) Artnet.com. Available at: https://www.artnet.com/artists/tracey-emin/ (Accessed: January 31, 2023).

Tracey Emin Review – brutal portraits of female pain (2019) The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/05/tracey-emin-a-fortnight-of-tears-review-london-white-cube-bermondsey (Accessed: January 31, 2023).

Frankel, E. (2019) Tracey Emin: A fortnight of tears review: Art in London, Time Out London. Time Out. Available at: https://www.timeout.com/london/art/tracey-emin-a-fortnight-of-tears-review (Accessed: January 31, 2023).