Male artists such as Damien Hirst less of a force after 40, says Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin: ‘ … as a woman, you carry on coming all your life until you’re old’. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Tracey Emin has said that most male artists including her contemporary Damien Hirst are less of a creative “force” after they reach the age of 40.

Both Emin and Hirst have been Turner prize nominees, with Hirst winning the prestigious award in 1995, with his formaldehyde-preserved cow and calf, called Mother and Child, Divided, the focal piece of his exhibition that year.