Tracey Emin Art

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MY GIANT COLOURING BOOK – Jake & Dinos Chapman & YOUTURN artist’s @ Campbell Works Gallery – 2008 Videography by Jason Gleeson @audiovisualwelding.com

Wolff Olins’ chairman Brian Boylan and creative director Marina Willer feature in this BBC Culture Show special talking about the ground-breaking Tate brand, created in 2000 by Wolff Olins. The programme, dedicated to Tate Modern’s 10th birthday, seeks to understand how the institution has become one of the most successful modern art museums in the world. Brian and Marina, along with Sir Nicholas Serota, and artists Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry and Rachel Whiteread explain to art critic Matt Collings how the organisation set about realising its ambition to revolutionise the way people perceive art.

The Art Car Boot Fair. 19th June 2011. After a lengthy rant by Miriam Elia about Gavin Turk selling signed eggs for £25. Sarah Maple dares Miriam to smash one of the offending eggs. It took some persuading for Miriam to chuck the egg on the floor rather than in Gavin Turk’s face. www.sarahmaple.com www.miriamelia.co.uk

Tinguely… Dali … Emin….Paolozzi…and more…

Short documentary filmed on location in Lagos, Nigeria in Jan 2011. Featuring three internationally acclaimed artists (Alex Nwokolo, Fidelis Odogwu and Abiodun Olaku) representing the top tier (but by no means representative) of Nigeria. A 45 min version is currently in the edit process. Courtesy of Artexchange.com. Music by Kevin MacLeod. Filmed, directed and edited by Berend Rah.

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American artist Rob Pruitt brought his Holiday Flea Market to Tate Modern in the run up to Christmas. First staged in New York in 1999, the event started as a novel way to curate a group exhibition, with artists selling wares such as prints, home-made objects, bric-a-brac and more. This London incarnation brought together many enterprising young artists, as well as bigger names such as Gavin Turk and Tracey Emin. TateShots was accompanied by curator Kathy Noble to see what was on offer.

It’s time I showed a little more of myself here on Yahoo.
I have kept my light under the proverbial bushel for too long – for fear of arousing unquenchable bodily and romantic desires in all who view my likeness. Of course, an actual photograph would still be too dangerous. Who knows what lengths some of the testosterone fuelled young bucks of Y/A might go to if they caught a glimpse of the real me? Who knows how many homes broken; how many tots left weeping and fatherless? No, no, I couldn’t live with the guilt.
However I do believe the community is now ready to take an "artist’s impression". Therefore I’ve decided to comission a portrait.
Now, looming as large and beloved in the art world as I do, I could take my pick of the latest hot talent around. For instance I’ve considered letting Tracy Emin get me into her famous bed, or allowing Damien Hirst to stuff me in an exhibition room at The Tate. However, over a long and colourful life I have always given freely of myself to young, unknown, and preferably up-coming artists. I so enjoy giving them a leg up when they’re struggling.
So anyway, a young friend of mine called Lefty shows a great deal of promise as an artist. In fact I have her on a promise even as we speak. Therefore I have awarded her the comission and now it only remains for me to decide exactly how I want to be portrayed.
The options so far are ‘Classic Nudey’ or ‘Classic Partial-Nudey’.
Which should it be?
Of course I am wide open to all other suggestions!

+++NEW MUSIC+++ On 5th May 2006 I visited the Tate Modern, and by accident bumped into the booksigning session with the famous British artist Tracey Emin. I thought that I should share this with you – there are some interesting close-ups, for example. You can see that in-between she meets an old friend from primary school and hugs him, I thought that this was supersweet. Tracey has a reputation for being eccentric, but on this day she was just a friendly, “normal” person, as you can see. The audio was unusable, so I put two extremely nice tracks under it, enjoy!