A British artist known for her conceptual sculpture, especially works that reveal intimate details of her personal life,Tracey Emin became Great Britain's representative at the 52nd International Venice Biennale, 2007. She was raised in Margate, a town in Kent, England where her father, an ethnic Turkish Cypriot, owned the Hotel International. When it failed, the family suffered a drastic change in circumstances, complicated by the fact that the father had two families and was not married to her mother.

She studied fashion at Medway College of Design (1980-1982), and there met Billy Childish, an expelled student, and the two had a relationship for several years. She later said that one of the best exper...