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Tracey Emin

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I've been slagged off completely by the art world.


— Tracey Emin


#art world #been #completely #i #off

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.


— Tracey Emin


#anything #come #fragile #got #i

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.


— Tracey Emin


#couple #doing #feeling #great #great feeling

It pleases me that people can be interactive.


— Tracey Emin


#me #people #pleases

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.


— Tracey Emin


#destroying #me #much

It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons.


— Tracey Emin


#against #always #budget #committee #conservative

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.


— Tracey Emin


#area #between #gray #gray area #happened

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.


— Tracey Emin


#i #maybe #myself #such #thing

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.


— Tracey Emin


#destroying #even #even now #i #life

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.


— Tracey Emin


#me #one thing #success #taught #thing






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It is divided into three sections "Motherland" "Fatherland" and "Traceyland". Displayed in the same show was a smaller installation work called Self Portrait (2005) which consisted of a tin bath bamboo wire and neon light. Fame
Although these early events caused Emin to be well known in art circles Tracey Emin was largely unknown by the public until Tracey Emin appeared on a Channel 4 television programme in 1997.

In 1999 Emin had her first solo exhibition in the United States at Lehmann Maupin Gallery entitled "Every Part of Me's Bleeding". In May 2011 Emin's largest major solo exhibition in a public space was held at Hayward Gallery London titled Love Is What You Want. In April 2011 Tracey opened the Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate with Jools Holland and between May and September 2012 Tracey Emin is holding her first exhibition there entitled "She Lay Down Deep Beneath The Sea".

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