Tracey Emin: ‘I’ve done more in my last five years than in the whole rest of my life’

Tate Modern is staging Tracey Emin’s largest retrospective to date, titled “A Second Life,” spanning work from her first solo exhibition at White Cube in 1993 through her most recent paintings. Emin, born in Croydon and raised in Margate, rose to prominence with My Bed (1998) after being nominated for the Turner Prize in 1999, later representing Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and being elected a Royal Academician the same year. She received a CBE in 2012 and a damehood in 2024, and has addressed her 2020 bladder-cancer diagnosis and subsequent surgery in new work, including a documentary that features the stoma bag she lives with. In the interview, Emin said the exhibition title reflects the “before and after” of her life following cancer and claimed she has produced more in the last five years than in the rest of her career.

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