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Tracey Emin CBE is known for her frank, confessional style and for transforming her inner world into intimate works of art. She has become one of the most celebrated artists in the world, a household name, and part of the Art establishment.

Her practice includes painting, drawing, film, photography, sewn applique, sculpture, and neon, but in recent years she has focused on painting. Inspired by artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch, her paintings are provocative, confrontational, and vulnerable. They are at once deeply personal and universal, and it's for this reason her work is revered around the world, and she has become an international icon.

The book features more than 300 images of Emin's gestural and expressive figurative paintings, from the 1990s to today, as well as a conversation with close friend David Dawson and an essay by Australian writer Jennifer Higgie.

Made in close collaboration with the artist, this special book is the first publication dedicated to Emin's emotive paintings and showcases her soulful work like never before.

Details

ISBN13: 9781838668617
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 352
Edition:
Publication Date: 14 Jan 2025
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 290(H)x250(L)x33(W)
Weight (gm):

Author Biography

David Dawson is a London-based painter and Director of the Lucian Freud Archive. He studied at the Royal College of Art from 1987 to 1989, where he was a contemporary of Tracey Emin.

Jennifer Higgie is an Australian, London-based writer and the former editor of frieze magazine. Her latest book is The Other Side: A Story of Women, Art and the Spirit World.

Tracey Emin is a Royal Academician and was elected the Royal Academy's Professor of Drawing in 2011. She has represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and in 2023 established the Tracey Emin Foundation and TKE Studios.

Reviews

‘A beautiful tome…Emin’s paintings are at once challenging, confrontational, and raw.’ – Galerie

‘Emin’s perspective is captured in all its glory in Paintings.’ – Vanity Fair

‘The first in-depth exploration of the punk painter’s oeuvre.’ – V Magazine

‘An immersive and powerful tribute to one of the most important artists of our time.’ –  InsideHook