Hay-on-Wye on 28 May - 5.30pm
Tracey Emins art is one of disclosure, using her life events as inspiration for works ranging from painting, drawing, video and installation, to photography, needlework and sculpture. Emin reveals her hopes, humiliations, failures and successes in candid and, at times, excoriating work that is frequently both tragic and humorous. Emins work has an immediacy and often sexually provocative attitude that firmly locates her oeuvre within the tradition of feminist discourse. By re-appropriating conventional handicraft techniques or womens work for radical intentions, Emins work resonates with the feminist tenets of the personal as political. In Everyone Ive Ever Slept With, Emin used the process of appliqu to inscribe the names of lovers, friends and family within a small tent, into which the viewer had to crawl, becoming both voyeur and confidante. Her interest in the work of Edvard Munch and Egon Schiele particularly inform Emins paintings, monoprints and drawings, which explore complex personal states and ideas of self-representation through manifestly expressionist styles and themes.
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Address : Hay Literary Festival
Tata Tent
Hay-on-Wye
HR3 5PJ
Telephone : 01497 822 629
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