Tracey Emin uses all aspects of her life in her art, turning intimate autobiography into broader subjects on sex, love, death, freedom and everyday life. Her work has taken the form of drawings so personal to be diaristic, paintings, films, sculptures and written stories - all of which convey a sense of loss, yearning, pain, compassion and wit. Drawing and printmaking have remained key mediums for Emin, and over the past ten years, she has produced a steady output of monotype prints directly from her drawings.

Tracey Emin was born in 1963 in London. She shares her time between the South of France, London and Margate. She has exhibited extensively including solo exhibitions at Château La Coste, Aix-en-Provence, France (2017); Leopold Museum, Vienna (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2013); Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2012); Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2012); Hayward Gallery, London (2011); Kunstmuseum Bern (2009); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2008); Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Malaga, Spain (2008); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2003); and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2002). In 2007 Emin represented Great Britain at the 52nd Venice Biennale and her installation My Bed has been included in ‘In Focus’ displays at Tate Britain with Francis Bacon (2015), Tate Liverpool with William Blake and also at Turner Contemporary, Margate alongside JMW Turner (2017). In 2011, Emin was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and in 2012 was made Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her contributions to the visual arts.