Tracey Emin Art

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I mean an artist like Tracey Emin or Damien Hurst are richer and some are more famous than a fine artist who use traditional media. All contemporary artists do is recycle found things, alter them or install them as they are and then call it art while painters, printmakers, sculptors and artist who do drawings spend a lot of money on art materials to produce their work which is the kind of art regular people would like to buy. No one would want to buy an installation seen in gallery exhibitions for their home or work place – we want to buy a painting, a hand made print, a drawing, a sculpture don’t we?

Crane.tv Presents Martin Creed on Mothers. Turner Prize-winning Glaswegian artist Martin Creed gives Crane.tv a preview of his latest work ‘Mothers’ at Hauser & Wirth’s new Savile Row gallery. Here, he tells us why he prefers the city to the country and how he’s been inspired by Ernest Hemingway. To embed visit www.Crane.tv

www.winkball.com Art much like beauty is often said to be in the eye of the beholder. It has almost unlimited interpretational value and whether it appeals to the viewers particular taste or not it is almost certain that an individual investigation into the truth behind the piece will transpire. That truth however lies with the creator and is woven into the experiences that shape their life and the love that conceived and consequently brought it into the world. Life and love are central themes in Tracey Emin‘s: Love Is What You Want exhibition at Hayward Gallery. Tracey is one of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary artists. Born in Croydon, London she is well known for being a part of the collective known as Britartists or YBA‘s (Young British Artists). The exhibition concentrates on every major period of her career and delves into intimate and revealing moments in her life. ‘The more you give the more you get’ is the phrase that springs to mind as Emin exposes herself through painting, drawing, photography, textiles, video and sculpture. The fly on the wall perspective that one is granted walks the fine line between privileged and perverse as we accompany her through moments of romance, desperation, anger, comedy and longing. The combination of the sexual and the political can be disarming, but there is just enough use of her trademark wit to balance the scales. The Hayward Gallery exhibition space suited this collection and made the whole experience very accessible …

Presenter Matt Finish asks “Is Art Standing Still”. Aragorn Lionheart & Arfur Dali help him decide. Includes exclusive footage of Jake & Dinosauras (the dopey dipsticks) and Damien (my name is) Emin, plus lots of surprise guests.

A fabulous day of art, fun and frivolity- the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair returned for its seventh year on 19th June 2011! Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk, Sir Peter Blake and Polly Morgan (to name but a few!) sold pieces of their own art from a variety of brilliant Vauxhall vehicles.

Turner Contemporary Gallery has opened its doors to public in Margate, Kent. 80000 people visited it in a month. The well-known British artist Tracey Emin, who opened the gallery, describes her emotions for the opening of the Gallery in Margate where she grew up. Turner Contemporary was built on the spot where famous seacape and landscape painter JM William Turner used to live.

Britart’s former enfant terrible takes her place firmly centre stage her first major retrospective at the South Bank’s Hayward Gallery.

Alexander Devenport talks about Matthew Collings 1999 show ‘This is modern art’, a show that made it a lot easier for art students to understand contemporary art. However, the show popularized and grounded contemporary art itself.