Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want

18 May – 29 August 2011, Hayward Gallery

Installation view: Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want, Hayward Gallery, 2011 (2011) by Tracey EminHayward Gallery

Since the early 1990s, Tracey Emin has used her own life as the starting point for her art, exposing the intimate details of her personal history.

Installation view: Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want, Hayward Gallery, 2011. Photo: David Levene (2011) by Tracey EminHayward Gallery

Disarmingly frank and yet often profoundly private, much of Emin’s art is animated by her playful and ironic wit.

Installation view: Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want, Hayward Gallery, 2011. Photo: David Levene (2011) by Tracey EminHayward Gallery

This major retrospective exhibition featured painting, drawing, photography, textiles, video and sculpture, in works by turns tough, romantic, desperate, angry, funny and full of longing.

Installation view: Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want, Hayward Gallery, 2011. Photo: David Levene (2011) by Tracey EminHayward Gallery

Seldom seen early works and recent large-scale installations were shown together with a new series of outdoor sculptures created especially for Hayward Gallery.

Catalogue for Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want, Hayward Gallery, 2011 (2011) by Hayward GalleryHayward Gallery

The exhibition was accompanied by a comprehensive monograph featuring texts by art historian Michael Corris, writer and academic Jennifer Doyle, Hayward Gallery curator Cliff Lauson, as well as a text by award-winning novelist Ali Smith.

Private View Invitation for Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want, Hayward Gallery, 2011 (2011) by Hayward GalleryHayward Gallery

Private view invitation to Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want.

Exhibition Guide for Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want, Hayward Gallery, 2011 Exhibition Guide for Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want, Hayward Gallery, 2011 (2011) by Hayward GalleryHayward Gallery

Exhibition guide for Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want.

Press release for Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want, Hayward Gallery, 2011 Press release for Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want, Hayward Gallery, 2011 by Hayward GalleryHayward Gallery

Press release for Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want.

Marketing Leaflet for Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want, Hayward Gallery, 2011 (2011) by Hayward GalleryHayward Gallery

Marketing leaflet outlining the public programme that took place alongside the exhibition. Events including a talk by Ali Smith on the work of Tracey Emin and a panel discussion on 'Sexuality in British Art'.

Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want (2011)Hayward Gallery

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