Tracey Emin - Tent - Everyone I have ever slept with

Although at times obscured by the artist's celebrity, the art of Tracey Emin is serious and focussed, challenging and at times startlingly beautiful. In this film, she speaks frankly about her career, the craft of her immensely varied work, and the immediate, personal themes with which she engages: autobiography, memory, desire, and identity.

Many of her best-known works, including Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 (1995) and My Bed (1998), are illustrated and discussed, as is a wide selection of drawings, prints, paintings, neons, appliqué blankets and installations.

"I always say if I didn't make art, I'd probably be dead," she reflects. "But let's be more realistic about that. If I didn't make art and I'd done well in life, then I might have gone into retail. I would probably be the person in the shop that would be always organising the displays, and always making the noticeboard look nice in the canteen, stuff like that. I'm a genuinely creative person."

Please note that this video contains explicit images and adult language featured in artworks by Tracey Emin.

theEYE is an excellent introduction to contemporary artists and their works and provides an ideal resource for a wide range of audiences, including galleries, museums and colleges, as well as individual art-lover.

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[TheAndrew633]

First, Art is for the artist, if the viewer engages with it great,  if they do not, so what. Second, Art can be anything( see M Duchamp). Both Manet and Van Gogh were derided in their own lifetimes for not being 'acceptable'. Third, Art is about feelings, what the artist feels about the world about them.

Most comment about contemporary art originates from the tabloid press and half listened to reports. Before you speak go see the work and put it in context. Then have your say.

[Flowmotion1000]

I'm tired of that old chestnut about Van Gogh and Beethoven etc not being understood in their own time.Is this meant to somehow vindicate anyone that is obviously not that good?

[midnightcowgirl7272]

all these fellas she shaged must be blind right, she is a dog,no sorry if i had a dog that looked like her i would have the poor thing put to sleep.

[TheZoobearz]

This is shite. People think this is art.. eminent must be laughing all the way to the bank at you mugs

[TheAndrew633]

Shes just got a new Job..............Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy!!!  Cant be that bad then!

[TheAndrew633]

@kazinscky Sleeping partners...........not sexual partners!!!!

[TheAndrew633]

@aaronfromhastings Small problem.........the urinal was rejected from the exhibition and didnt win anything.............but in its context brilliant!!!

[tadhgmccabe]

@Flowmotion1000 I totally agree with you. As to Manet and Van Gogh, they built on the great traditions of art and extended the boundaries of expression in original and exciting ways. Contemporary art, very specifically, in the person of Duchamp, set out to destroy and eliminate the idea of Art. The idiots that followed, thought he was making a new art and duly took refuge in an 'Art Form' that has no standards and no way to gage whether it is good or bad.

[tadhgmccabe]

@TheAndrew633 If Art is simply for the artist, what is the point of putting it into a public arena and inviting the public to engage with it. You are really confirming the view that contemporary art is totally self indulgent. It insults the public by implying that if they don't like or engage with it, then they are lacking in some way. The hubris and stupidity of that widespread idea within the contemporary (non) Art world is breathtaking.

[bordereye]

@Flowmotion1000 I totally agree. By the way, great painters held Van Gogh in high esteem, and who criticised him never considered him cynical, greedy or talentless. Even Michelangelo was attacked by some of his contemporaries, but nobody ever said he wasn't a serious painter! Please, let's not compare these giants with the likes of Tracy Emin.

[vitaminD11]

@TheAndrew633 these people have lost their idea of beauty, there must be beauty in everything. even in horrific things beauty is an ideal