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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 school because i missed so much skill. i stopped going to school when i was about 13 and had to go back a...

Moments of your life in the most important artworks that have had a profound effect on your own creativity and the first one you've chosenis creativity and the first one you've chosen is a painting, one at the tate. you may guess, the rothko painting pink and yellow. {lister tate. you may guess, the rothko painting pink and yellow.- painting pink and yellow. over 22 when i first _ painting pink and yellow. over 22 when i first went _ painting pink and yellow. over 22 when i first went to _ painting pink and yellow. over 22 when i first went to the _ painting pink and yellow. over 22 when i fir...

Rothko? monk, iwas miss monk, i think, you know. 1983— rothko? monk, iwas miss monk, i think, you know. 1983 or _ rothko? monk, iwas miss monk, i| think, you know. 1983 or whatever, for, i was many monk. i wrote my thesis on monk. i emulated him, i made this really big screening with wooden frames around them, you know, i was totally in love with him. i loved emotionally traumatised out. i responded to it. and figurative art as well. that was the main thing. tracey, your next big cultural evidence is musical. you're the monk david barry's whole ethos and how he made things and everything mea...

Do you know what? do i want to no, i don't think so. and i think my willpower kicked in and because i had accepted this it meant that i could with the concentrate on life, that make sense. i'd make something to live for. something very important to therefore. or i could die quite happily, do you see? so because i had accepted that it meant i didn't have to fight to death which meant i could actually concentrate or live.— which meant i could actually concentrate or live. you've recently shown work — concentrate or live. you've recently shown work alongside _ concentrate or live. you've rece...

It vibrate. and i did know anything about rothko, and i didn't pursue anything about rothko afterwards. it was only later when i did find out about rothko and read about rothko i thought, oh, my god. how... and then i realised something very early on that art, to art should resonate. should make you feel. it is not a picture, it is not a thing, it is not an object, it is a true entity. a true thing that has energy that comes from somewhere. that is what makes it art. but comes from somewhere. that is what makes it art-— makes it art. but if you talk to --eole makes it art. but if you talk to...