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TRACEY EMIN EXHIBITION

From: Friday 01 August 2008  To: Monday 10 November 2008

TRACEY EMIN
Early August (to be confirmed) - 9 November 2008
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 73 Belford Road, Edinburgh
Admission to be confirmed

Tracey Emin is one of the most celebrated artists of her generation, yet remarkably this will be the first retrospective exhibition of her work to be held in the UK. Born in London in 1963, she grew up in the Kent seaside resort town of Margate and studied Royal College of Art in London from 1987 to 1989. Emin's work draws directly upon her personal experiences, and often refers to traumatic episodes in her early life (being raped at the age of 13, her sexually promiscuous adolescence and a failed suicide attempt). Her first solo exhibition, My Major Retrospective, held at the White Cube Gallery in London in 1993, featured embroidered blankets, letters, mementos and photographs relating to such experiences. Emin's great achievement is to have drawn upon her background - the sort of background that a lot of people share, but which is largely uncharted territory in the world of art - and to have done so in a manner that is neither tragic nor sentimental. The forthcoming retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art will occupy the entire ground floor of the gallery and feature work dating from 1993 to the present day. It will include embroidered textiles, paintings, drawings, early unpublished prints, installations, photographs, sculptures, neon works and much new work, made specifically for the exhibition.

 
 
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