Though she did not win, Emin received significant acclaim for her installation titled My Bed, which featured the artist’s unmade bed surrounded by personal items (from slippers to empty liquor bottles, cigarette butts, and condoms), exploring the allegorical qualities of … Her Turkish father lived with them for half of the week, spending the other half with his wife and other children. The bed was exhibited exactly as it had been when she had slept in it for several days feeling suicidal due to relationship problems. In 1999, Emin became a nominee for the prestigious Turner Prize for contemporary art for her 1998 work My Bed - an installation commemorating an emotional crisis which featured her own unmade dirty bed complete with used condoms and blood-stained underwear. Although nominated, she did not win the Turner prize in 1999, but she received significant praise for her installation, My Bed, which featured Emin’s unmade bed surrounded by an array of personal items. To create it, Emin appliqued the names of everyone she had ever shared a bed with onto a small tent. The work opens to the public on 17 September. My Bed is probably the most notorious work in the oeuvre of British artist Tracey Emin (°1963). Tracey Emin was inspired by the difficult depressive phase she’s been through while just lying in bed without eating and just drinking alcohol. Emin reveals her hopes, humiliations, failures and successes in candid and, at times, excoriating work that is frequently both tragic and humorous. Tracey Emin & the Turner Prize. Mattress, linens, pillows and objects, 31 x 83 x 92 1/8 in (79 x 211 x 234 cm) Tracey Emin – My Bed.

She lived with her mother in a successful seaside hotel, where she claims she was treated "like a princess." Her Turkish father lived with them for half of the week, spending the other half with his wife and other children. Tracey Emin was born in Surrey, in England. This piece first brought Tracey Emin to wider fame, both in the art world and among the general public. Tracey Emin was born in Surrey, in England. The tent was presented with its door open, lit from within and containing a mattress. Tracey Emin, CBE, RA (/ˈɛmɪn/; born 3 July 1963) is an English contemporary artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. In July 2014, Charles Saatchi sold Emin’s Turner Prize-nominated installation “My Bed” (1998)­ for a whopping £2.5 million, landing it on a list of the ten most expensive works by living female artists. Tracey Emin presents her remade 1998 installation My Bed at Tate Liverpool. Tracey Emin’s art is one of disclosure, using her life events as inspiration for works ranging from painting, drawing, video and installation, to photography, needlework and sculpture. 15 years after its debut Tracey Emin’s iconic installation ‘My Bed’ has returned to the Tate Britian, complete with the empty vodka bottles, used condoms and blood-stained underwear that made it legendary.A testament to the breakdown of a relationship, ‘My Bed’, like the former Young British Artist’s other early works, makes some people uncomfortable with its raw emotion.

C IS FOR CHARLES SAATCHI. She grew up in Margate, on the coast of Kent, with her twin brother Paul. Tracey Emin – My Bed, 1998. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn appliqué. First shown in 1998 at the Toyko’s Sagacho Exhibition Space, and in New York’s Lehmann Maupin gallery the subsequent year, My Bed became best know through an exhibition at Tate Modern in 1999 as one of the shortlisted works for the Turner Prize. She lived with her mother in a successful seaside hotel, where she claims she was treated "like a princess." Photograph: Jonathan Jones/The Guardian She grew up in Margate, on the coast of Kent, with her twin brother Paul.