Tracey Emin - a moving article.

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www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tracey-emin-on-her-secret-cancer-battle-to-get-past-christmas-would-be-good-r00rsb5h8

Hope this is a share token. This is a really moving story about Tracey written by Decca Aitkinhead. I have really understood her work more and more as I've got older and whatever anyone else thinks of it, she's definitely broken new ground for women in art.

I thought she was worth a support thread here.

Thanks for sharing. She’s amazing and that was so sad to read.

I also wish her well. Saw a documentary about her a few years ago and she was way less of a party animal than I assumed and much more thoughtful.

What a brilliant interview with a brilliant woman.

I'm sorry about your vagina, Tracey.

That is very very sad and moving.
I have loved her art since the 90s too.
I remember when she was getting slated in the press for the tent and she had to explain that everyone she'd ever slept with included childhood friends and things. It wasn't actually all about sex.
Also all the huffing and puffing about the bed. 'You call that art' etc etc. But it spoke to me very vividly about pain and messiness in life.
Her drawings are beautiful too and go to show she could always draw if she has chosen to. She's right as well that it was all about conceptual stuff like Damien Hurst and his half a shark in the 90s.
The only stuff of hers I never really 'got' was the neon signs.
I hope she beats this and makes art about it too.

I saw a documentary about her and her art a few years ago which was brilliant and I've had so much respect for her and her work ever since.

I love her drawings and paintings, so raw and powerful.

This is a devastating story, poor woman. I had no idea about her previous bladder issues, but her cancer and surgery have clearly been totally brutal.

I really hope she makes it past Christmas, and a long way beyond.

Wow. Similarities with Frida Kahlo. Shocking though what she has already had to deal with. Strong woman.

I read this yesterday and I haven’t stopped thinking about it. She is an amazing artist and has come up against such misogyny in her professional life.
I hope she finds that person to love her the way she deserves.

I’ve also been thinking a lot about this article since I read it yesterday. It’s an absolute belter of a piece, and having read it, I’m lost in admiration for Emin. Her drawings and paintings are absolutely sublime, I hadn’t appreciated how talented she is until recently. And the way she’s lived her life...

I really hope her health improves as much as it can. She’s an absolute legend, and I think misogyny has played a big role in how her work has been received.

Thanks for sharing.

What a moving interview. She's fantastic, and so strong. What a brave woman.

Oh Christ I had no idea. She is an amazing talent I have always loved her work, particularly her drawings, since seeing the tent. Back then I had no idea how misogynistic the art world was/is. She is particularly amazing to have got through with the acclaim she has given that. Wishing her the very very best.

I've always been a huge fan. Discovered her art on a school trip to the Sensation exhibition in 1997? 1998? I wasn't enamoured with Damiam Hirst, it was Tracey all the way for me, aged 16. What immediately struck me was how she took ownership of her life, her trauma, her female experience, and refused to bow to societal shame. Big influence.

Needless to say I'm in tears reading that article. I really hope life turns around for her and she goes on making art for many more decades.

She took ownership of her life, her trauma, her female experience, and refused to bow to societal shame

Yes! Plus she was doing that when lad culture peaked during the 90s and everyone pretended that because women got pissed too that sexism was over. Britpop culture was loud, brash and shallow, in retrospect her work was anything but shallow.

Lots of love to you Tracey x

It's a really moving interview. Agree about how Emin was creating art about uniquely female topics long before Caitlin Moran was talking about them.

But it's also illustrative, once again, of how female biology affects every woman alive. Emin has never had children but treating her cancer meant removing her ovaries and her uterus.

Brilliant interview - thank you to Decca Aitkenhead, who has been through her own personal trauma.

To you Tracey you are one hell of a woman.

Ive always loved her. Her attitude and zest more than anything else. Such a refreshingly honest but sad article.

That's heartbreaking.