Tracey Emin was born in London in 1963 and studied  at Maidstone College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. She represented Great Britain at the  Venice Biennale in 2007 and was elected a Royal Academician in the same year. In 2011, Emin became  the Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy of  Arts, London. In June 2024, King Charles III appointed her Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her contributions to the  visual arts.  

Tracey Emin’s art is one of disclosure, using her life events as inspiration for works ranging from painting, neon, drawing, video and installation to photography, needlework and sculpture. Emin reveals her hopes, humiliations, failures and successes in candid and, at times, excoriating work. Emin’s art has an immediacy and often sexually provocative attitude that firmly locates her oeuvre within the tradition of feminist discourse. Her paintings, monoprints and drawings explore complex personal states and ideas of self-representation through manifestly expressionist styles and themes.  

Dame Tracey Emin DBE RA has generously donated this original artwork from her personal archive.

Donated by: Tracey Emin DBE RA
@traceyeminstudio