Thursday 05 January 2012
Tracey Emin Comes Out From Beneath The Covers For A Hometown Exploration Of Love, Sex & Romanticism
In the lead up to London 2012, the South East will see projects for all of the community to enjoy including the first major exhibition by Tracey Emin in her home town of Margate, She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea.
The show will contain a mixture of new and existing works and explores the themes of love, sex and romanticism.
Emin's colourful life has consistently brought her under the media spotlight and the intensity of her fame can sometimes overshadow her talent:
“It's very difficult anyway but I do have less time and I'm more popular and I'm invited to more parties and I have more friends and all of these wonderful positive things do make it harder for me to make work because I have less time.
“I have to fight for my time. I have to fight for a place to make work. But I am not famous – let's definitely stick to infamous.”
Last year Tracey opened the Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate with Jools Holland, she then went to have her largest major solo exhibition in a public space, at the Hayward Gallery, London, titled Love Is What You Want.
Tracey's chequered past means meaningful relationships don't come easily:
“I know that there's a price to pay for what I've done and what I do. This is possibly why it's very difficult for me to have a relationship.
“But my art has always been my companion. With it I've found some solace and a way in which to live out my future. And I don't regret any work I've made.”
Meanwhile in Brighton local children joined storyteller Jamie Crawford to ring bells at the Jubilee Library and to help London 2012 launch the programme for the London 2012 Festival.
The spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from the UK, opening on Midsummer's Day 21 June and running until 9 September 2012.
Officially launched in London by actor Mark Rylance, choreographer Arlene Philips and artist Martin Creed, the local children rang bells at the Jubilee Library to help unveil plans for one of the festival works by Creed, which will see people ringing bells across the UK at 8.00am on 27 July 2012, to mark the first day of the London 2012 Games.
The festival commission will give people throughout the UK the opportunity to welcome the 205 participating nations to the Games.
by: Mike Cobley
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