Max Pearson

Tracey oli osa ryhmää, jonka nimeltä The Young British Artists, sekä muista taiteilijoista, kuten Damian Hurstista. He olivat tunnettuja rikolle ja vaikuttaneeksi tradiittisiin taiteilijoiden tekniikoihin. Ja Tracyn tapauksessa hän pysähtyi, koska hän tuli erilaisten taiteilijoiden takia.

Coming from a very dysfunctional, broken family, anybody will tell you it's incredibly different. And also if you have come from a state of poverty, through circumstances which unfold, it's really difficult. Tracy grew up in Margate, a seaside town on the southeast coast of England.

When my dad came to England in 1948, and then a lot of his Cypriot friends, the Greek Cypriots, were in Margate. And they said, Enver, come to Margate, it's just like Cyprus, it's just like the Mediterranean. And so my dad come to Margate and opened a hotel, and that's how we ended up in Margate.

Tracy grew up with her twin brother and was raised by a single mum. And at 13 years old, her life changed forever.

She immediately dropped out of school, but a year later she had to go back.

If you don't go to school, the social services will come and get you. So when I went to school, the art teachers just said, let her just sit here at the table making art. It meant that it was drummed into my mind. Tracy moved to London and took her passion for art with her. Because I never thought I could go to university because I didn't have any qualifications. But I got in. I had a full scholarship at the Royal College of Art.

When she graduated in 1989, she started hanging out with the young British artists. We weren't waiting for someone to say, oh, I'll give you a show. We just opened up our own galleries, had our own shows. Me and Sarah Lucas had a shop, for example. Nobody was networking, for example. Everybody was just busy doing. In the mid-90s, she found herself producing autobiographical work, including a tent adorned with the names of all the people she had slept with.

Kaikki ajattelivat, että se oli seksistä, tai jonkinlaista rauhaa siitä, kuinka monta ihmistä olin elänyt. Ja minä sanoin, että kun tein tuon rauhan, jokainen nimi, jonka tein tuon rauhan, oli kuin rauhassa tai rauhassa. Ja neljä vuotta myöhemmin, 1999, hän teki sen, josta hän on suurin piirtein.

Here she is, talking about it, with the Tate Gallery in a series titled Tate Shots in 2015.

1998 minulla oli täysin täydellinen lopputulos. Pidin neljä päivää yöllä. Olin yöllä ja yliopistossa. Kun tulin ulos yöllä, oli vähän vettä, menin takaisin, katsoin yöllä ja en uskonut, mitä voin nähdä. Tämä on ollut täysin rauha ja rauha elämässäni. Sitten näin yöä yöllä tämän pienen pienen yöllä ja näin sen ihan ison valkoisen paikan. Olin huomannut, että minun pitäisi muuttaa yö ja kaikki galleriin.

I mean, people have totally misunderstood this piece of work. For me, this piece of work is about all things to do with living. Like waking up, feeling lonely. And also the bed, you can see it's like a place of maybe some kind of wild sex. Something really passionate has happened there. Something really emotional. And there is my actual bed, there is my actual sheets, there are my actual possessions. I've edited and I've contrived how I think it looks, because for me it had to be aesthetic, it had to look beautiful. And just one month before the winner of the Turner Prize was announced,

Tracy was devastated. And then, to add to it all, she lost out on the much anticipated Turner Prize. She did sell her installation to owner of the Saatchi Art Gallery, Charles Saatchi, for about $200,000 a few months later. And over 25 years later, what are her thoughts on that seminal piece of work? I love it. I love the bed. Still stand by it, still defend it, still love it.

Mielestäni myös nyt se on tullut, että kylmä itse on tullut kansalliseen käsitykseen. Taitoja ovat nyt kustantajat. Se on kuin 90-luvun naisen aikajärjestelmä. Vuonna 2024 Tracey Emin oli valittu damehoodin käsitykseen British Artin King Charles IIIin.

She returned to Margate where she set up an art foundation for students as a way of making art more accessible to people from all backgrounds. I don't want to be remembered as just being a 1990s mediocre artist. I've got to do something. I've got to make things better. And so that's all I've been doing.

Natasja Fernandes kuulee kontroversiaa, jonka jätettiin vuonna 1999 Dame Tracey Eminin taiteen sopimuksessa MyBed. Seuraavaksi menemme sportihistoriaan, ja tähän menemme hyökkäyksiin. Muista, kun tehtiin suimukku, joka oli niin hyvä, että sen piti lopettaa. Se on se, mitä Jason Rance ja tehtävänsä tehtiin Beijingin olympiakirjojen aikana vuonna 2008. Josephine McDermott kertoo meiltä yksittäisiä tasoja, jotka liittyivät kontroversioiden suunnitteluun.

It's all very dramatic.

Se on se, mitä kuulit aiemmin. Promotiivinen uudistus, mediallinen vastaus. Mutta me jatketaan seurauksista, jotka johtivat tästä historiallisesta sportin luomisesta. 20 vuotta sitten kaikki, jotka olivat osallistuneet Speedo Laser Racerin kanssa, yleensä atleteet, olivat syntyneet seurauksiin. Mutta nyt Jason voi osoittaa, mitä he eivät halunneet maailman nähdä. Ja se aloittaa elite-atleteiden keskustelussa Australiassa, jälkeen lyhyen reissun DIY-storin kanssa, jossa ostetaan tapeja ja valkoja.

That was the day the world's fastest swimmer, Michael Phelps, got to wear the world's fastest swimsuit for the first time. We all trundled off to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra and all kind of secret squirrel had all the windows of the 50 meter pool blacked out with black tarpauling so the press couldn't sneak a peek.

Tarkoitan hänet, kun hänet katsoi, kun hänet katsoi, kun hänet katsoi, kun hänet katsoi.

Atlet wearing the swimsuit would shatter 30 world records in the space of three months. But the man behind the global research and development didn't have the experience you might expect. I was probably a bit of a left field candidate because I didn't have a background in swimsuit design. Or, you know, as an athlete, I can swim, but I'm not a serious athlete. But yeah, I was lucky enough to get the job and ended up starting with Speedo in May 2005 up in Nottingham, which is in the East Midlands of the UK.