Tracey Emin "Teacup, Pancake" Cards Available

Artist: Tracey Emin
Title: Teacup, Pancake
Medium: 10 Gift Cards
Size: 15 x 15 cm
Edition: UNSURE
Prices: £7

Tracey Emin, born in Croydon in 1963 and raised in Margate, is Britain’s most celebrated confessional artist, turning trauma into raw, urgent art across neon, paint, film, embroidery, and bronze. After abortive teenage years, she earned an MA from the Royal College of Art, joining the 1990s Young British Artists with works like the appliquéd tent Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 and the notorious Turner-nominated installation My Bed, which displayed stained sheets, vodka bottles, and cigarette butts from a suicidal breakdown, collapsing private despair into public spectacle. Scrawled love-letters in light You Forgot to Kiss My Soul and fragile monoprints of her own body extend the diary-like candor, merging feminist honesty with expressionist line.

Emin represented Britain at the 2007 Venice Biennale, became Royal Academician and Professor of Drawing, and was made a Dame in 2024. Major bronzes now stand outside the Oslo Munch Museum and London’s St Pancras station, transforming intimate gestures into civic monuments. Returning to Margate, she funds TKE Studios for emerging artists, ensuring the cycle of revelation continues.