Psyco Slut

Tracey Emin’s Psyco Slut is a blanket overflowing with appliquéd words, phrases and patches of handwritten texts that draw on the most intimate details of the artist’s personal history, not least her abortion, and early adolescent and childhood abuse. Psyco Slut was made in 1999; Emin’s first blanket dates from 1993. Each one is collaged from what the artist describes as ‘sacred fabrics’, including her own and her parents’ clothes and scraps of household furnishings. Psyco Slut featured in Emin’s 2011 retrospective at the Hayward Gallery.