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Life’s rich tapestry: the unsung wonders of textile art

Fibre art has long been a subversive medium. A new show at the Barbican unravels its power to reflect on everything from giving birth to racial oppression

The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024

OPINION - Tracey Emin: When I was 14, I used to have sex every Friday night in the back of someone’s van — they were 22

The saddest book I ever read was The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. What made it incredibly sad is the friend that gave me the book had been having an affair with my boyfriend.

Evening Standard · Jan 26, 2024

OPINION - Tracey Emin: It's not death I fear, it's the torture on the way – so this act of kindness cheered me

This week I felt a bit sorry for myself. As a rule I hate being pitiful, it’s pathetic because it never makes the situation any better, but this week I couldn’t help it.

Evening Standard · Jan 12, 2024

NGV Triennial 2023 review: plenty of showstoppers – and cheek – in another blockbuster show

With more than 120 artists including Tracey Emin, Yoko Ono and David Shrigley, there’s something for everyone at Melbourne’s major art event. Just don’t try to see it all at once

The Guardian - AU · Dec 2, 2023

From There’s Something in the Barn to Peter Gabriel: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Evil elves ruin a perfectly pleasant Norwegian B&B, while the former Genesis frontman finally shows his working-out

The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2023

OPINION - Tracey Emin: I wonder if the person who raped me when I was 13 ever thinks about it?

It’s very hard for me to write when I don’t feel well, especially when I have jet-lag and feel brain-dead, but I’ve felt like this for weeks now. Like I’ve been hit round the head with a giant rubber club. I have tinnitus 24 hours a day, excruciating eye pain,…

Evening Standard · Dec 1, 2023

From Tracey Emin to Kiki Smith: National Gallery of Australia puts art by women in the spotlight

A new exhibition in Canberra charts how women artists of the 20th century have been consumed with the body – and changed the way it has been depicted

The Guardian - AU · Nov 28, 2023

Art of the body and heart exposed at National Gallery

An exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia looks at representations of the figure by female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

AAP · Nov 24, 2023

OPINION - Tracey Emin: I've suffered through E.coli hell to see the work of the great Louise Bourgeois

It’s 6am in the morning, I’m in Sydney, Australia. I’ve been here for about 30 hours now and to be honest I’ve spent most of the time asleep, dreaming. Strange dreams mainly to do with death and journeys and art and fear. In fact, all to do with fear.

Evening Standard · Nov 24, 2023

OPINION - Tracey Emin: I feel I smell like a public loo at a Fifties train station, but I'm loved

I came back from New York determined not to get the PEBs — for anyone not in the art world and unfamiliar with the term, PEB stands for Post Exhibition Blues.

Evening Standard · Nov 17, 2023