Tracey Emin’s method of working and where she draws her ideas from are incredibly pertinent and important to me.
Her work is very emotive and emotional and draws on her own experiences, they are very expressive, and become a mirror for the viewer to see themselves within her art. She has experienced an incredible amount of trauma, and instead of her work describing those events, it seems to more describe the emotional turmoil caused by these events.
Her work is auto-biographical however it goes beyond that, it is feminist in nature and doesn’t just document her life by the life of many women, and I think that is what makes her resonate with such a wide audience.
Even though I am not a huge fan of her work, personally, I want to continue to research why her work emotes and resonates, and how even though not being direct and literal we still gain the idea and emotion behind the pieces.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/tracey-emin-2590
