Self Centre News Today

hello i am john wilson. welcome to this cultural life, the radio four podcast. my guest is tracey emin, an artist who has always put her own life at the centre of her work in drawings, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations, she tells very personal stories. we met in a radio studio in bbc broadcasting house. tracey, welcome to this cultural life. your life has always run all the way through your are right but when did the art start? yet they make the art then took off at schoo...

Really difficult, very personal issues. what has driven you to have the confidence to be so can verdict? if i had children everything and my children were at school i think i would be censored. i would have to self centre. i havent. my whole childhood, i have no barriers. i could do whatever i wanted. i did not have to go to school. i did not have to brush my teeth. i can do whatever i wanted. and it has been like that throughout my life as an artist. i have done what i wanted to do. i have deci...