Perhaps most known for her installation My Bed at the Tate Gallery in 1999, Tracey Emin uses a wide range of medium to reveal the vulnerabilities and intimacies of life. Her works are ripe with emotion and meaning, typically depicting scenes from her own life which reveal entire themes on sex, life and death. This work is unique in that Emin herself is not the subject. Her sketches are astounding, and the emotional and sexual power Emin can reveal is revealed in so few lines.

Here, the depiction of Kate Moss through Emin's distinctive line creates an elegant portrayal of her subject that conjures the model's essence with remarkable efficiency. Created during a period when both Emin and Moss were at the height of their cultural influence in British society, the work embodies the convergence of fine art and popular culture that epitomised the post-YBA (Young British Artists) period of the early 2000s, a period when both women were prominent figures in British cultural life - Emin as a leading contemporary artist following her Turner Prize nomination and Kate Moss as a defining figure in fashion, described as a "cultural hallucination" and a paradoxical figure who embodies both ethereal beauty and rebellious spirit.