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Tracey Emin's Last Great Adventure: Herself

7 October 2014

Tracey Emin discusses The Last Great Adventure is You

Newsnight's Kirsty Wark speaks to the artist at her exhibition at White Cube, Bermondsey.

The body laid bare

Tracey Emin's latest exhibition, The Last Great Adventure is You, opens this week at London's White Cube Gallery. The collection meditates on time and human ageing through representations of the body - Emin's own, naked body.

The exhibition, which runs from 8 October until 16 November, showcases traditional artistic disciplines of painting and sculpting, along with large-scale embroidered pieces and Emin's trademark neons.

The works - with titles including You Are Here, Wanting, That's How You Think of Me, Mother - show a mature artist exploring her experiences of growing older.

Kirsty Wark joined the artist for a special preview of the exhibition. Emin discusses the creative drive behind the new works, as well as touching on why she has embraced the role of artist over motherhood.

Kirsty Wark interviewed Tracey Emin for Newsnight.

You can see a series of images from the exhibition below.

Tracey Emin Links

Up Straight, 2014

Gouache on paper | 13 15/16 x 9 15/16 in. (35.4 x 25.3 cm) | © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2014 | Photo: Ben Westoby, courtesy White Cube

Good Body, 2014

Acrylic on canvas | 10 x 10 in. (25.4 x 25.4 cm) | © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2014 | Photo: Ben Westoby, courtesy White Cube

Wanting, 2014

Bronze | 3 3/4 x 6 1/8 x 7 1/2 in. (9.5 x 15.5 x 19 cm) | © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2014 | Photo: Ben Westoby, courtesy White Cube

That's How You Think of Me, 2014

Embroidered calico | 109 13/16 x 70 7/8 in. (279 x 180 cm) | © Tracey Emin All rights reserved, DACS 2014 | Photo: Jack Hems, courtesy White Cube

Good Red Love, 2014

Acrylic on canvas | 8 1/4 x 11 5/8 in. (21 x 29.5 cm) | © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2014 | Photo: Ben Westoby, courtesy White Cube

So Pretty, 2014

Acrylic on canvas | 8 1/4 x 11 5/8 in. (21 x 29.5 cm) | © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2014 | Photo: Ben Westoby, courtesy White Cube

You Are Here, 2014

Gouache on board | 11 13/16 x 9 13/16 in. (30 x 25 cm) | 31.2 x 26.2 x 3.2 cm (framed) | © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2014 | Photo: Ben Westoby, courtesy White Cube

Grotto, 2014

Bronze | 19 11/16 x 11 13/16 x 8 1/4 in. (50 x 30 x 21 cm) | © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2014 | Photo: Ben Westoby, courtesy White Cube

Mother, 2014

Bronze | 2 15/16 x 6 7/8 x 3 3/8 in. (7.5 x 17.5 x 8.5 cm) | © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2014 | Photo: Ben Westoby, courtesy White Cube

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