Tracey Emin Paintings

David Dawson is a London-based painter and Director of the Lucian Freud Archive. He studied at the Royal College of Art from 1987 to 1989, where he was a contemporary of Tracey Emin. Jennifer Higgie is an Australian, London-based writer and the former editor of frieze magazine. Her latest book is The Other Side: A Story of Women, Art and the Spirit World. Dame Tracey Emin DBE RA was born in London in 1963, and studied at Maidstone College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. She represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and was elected a Royal Academician in the same year. In 2011, Emin became the Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and in 2024 King Charles III appointed her Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her contributions to the visual arts.

‘A beautiful tome…Emin’s paintings are at once challenging, confrontational, and raw.’ – Galerie‘Emin’s perspective is captured in all its glory in Paintings.’ – Vanity Fair‘The first in-depth exploration of the punk painter’s oeuvre.’ – V Magazine‘An immersive and powerful tribute to one of the most important artists of our time.’ –  InsideHook