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Tracey Emin Interview _ Radio 4 _ This Cultural Life, by skinnydipper on Oct 31, 2021 11:11:53 GMT 1, This came on last night and I thought it was a really good , interesting interview and reflection on her artistic process
I enjoyed...
the Paul Mc Cartney interview the week before was pretty good too
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011467
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This came on last night and I thought it was a really good , interesting interview and reflection on her artistic process I enjoyed... the Paul Mc Cartney interview the week before was pretty good too www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011467![]() [/img][/url] |
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Tracey Emin Interview _ Radio 4 _ This Cultural Life, by Love Is In The Air on Oct 31, 2021 11:21:22 GMT 1, For anyone who is outside UK and maybe can't listen but might be interested, some of the quotes are below from a BBC media release.
If you are going to listen to the show, prob best not to read as imagine it would spoil it.
But I thought it might be worth posting for non UK Emin fans.......and have spaced this post out so hopefully no one reads too much to ruin it!
Tracey Emin is John Wilson’s guest of This Cultural Life; a series of in-depth conversations with artists and creatives.
In the discussion, Emin discusses her friendship with David Bowie, and reveals Bowie wanted them to record a song together:
TE: “I was sitting in a Lebanese restaurant in Kensington in 1996 with a couple of other people and someone leaned over the table and said “I’m very sorry to interrupt, my name’s David and I just want to say how much I love your work.” And I looked up and David Bowie’s looking at me, and I said “likewise”. And we became friends. It was just amazing that the only person I was ever a massive starstruck fan of, I became friends with.”
TE: “When he played in Ireland and I went with him, I went to see him play and he said “this goes out to my friend Tracey, who’s going to be the most famous artist in the world”. And then he played Fame. Which is pretty brilliant.”
TE: “I never really talk about my thing with David Bowie much because it all sounds a bit unreal really. It was just brilliant. To me, it just made sense that we were friends.”
JW: “Was he a direct influence on your work?”
TE: “No, it was the other way round wasn’t it. With art, he really loved my art and I really loved his music. But he did – this sounds silly, because I can’t sing a word, I can’t sing a note – and he’d say to me “I could get you to sing. We could do a song together. I’ve got the perfect song that you could sing.” I said “I can’t sing” and he said “yes you could”. And I always wish I’d done it now, it would have been brilliant”
Talking about regrets, Emin says she and her mum were asked to be extras on Only Fools and Horses, and she turned down the offer:
TE: “I also regret not being an extra with my mum on Fools and Horses… Me and my mum were in Margate sitting on a bench eating some jellied eels, and the scout person came and asked us if we would be extras.”
JW: “When was this?”
TE: “Twenty years ago or something. I would have loved to have been an extra in Fools and Horses with my mum.”
JW: “Did they know you were Tracey Emin?”
TE: “No, we just looked so cool sitting there eating jellied eels and cockles. It would have been fun.”
JW: “Why did you say no then?”
TE: “I don’t know. I was probably too self - I was going to say I was too up my own backside, that’s what I was going to say – but yeah, definitely. I thought I was too good to be an extra in Fools and Horses. How deranged was I? It would have been too classically brilliant, especially with my mum”.
“I’ve been overlooked” – while discussing her love of painting, Tracey Emin says “I think people didn’t understand the seriousness of my work over the last twenty years”:
JW: “For so many people, you ask somebody in the street about Tracey Emin, they probably still associate you with ‘My Bed’ or the tent, which is called ‘Everyone I Ever Slept With 1963 - 1995’. Do you think the painting has been overlooked?”
TE: “No, I think I’ve been overlooked. I think people didn’t understand the seriousness of my work over the last twenty years. I think they just thought I was some sort of narcissistic deranged screaming banshee.”
Emin says it was love that saved her, following her cancer diagnosis and treatment:
JW: “I think you said – you probably said many times - that art saved your life. Now that science has also your life, has that given new meaning to the art?”
TE: “Science saved my life, definitely, medical science. My surgeon was lovely. A robot actually did all my surgery, which is quite incredible. But I think love saved me. I really think love saved me this time, not art.”
JW: “What do you mean?”
TE: “Love. I fell in love just before I found out I had cancer.”
And she discusses the loneliness of being an artist:
TE: “Being an artist is really lonely. You cannot be an artist hanging out at a giant party, it’s never going to work. There’s a part of you that has to go deep inside, like I say ‘inside the cave’, and if you don’t go inside the cave, you’re never going to make any art. You need to be able to stand and see yourself to be able to make the art.”
For anyone who is outside UK and maybe can't listen but might be interested, some of the quotes are below from a BBC media release.
If you are going to listen to the show, prob best not to read as imagine it would spoil it.
But I thought it might be worth posting for non UK Emin fans.......and have spaced this post out so hopefully no one reads too much to ruin it!
Tracey Emin is John Wilson’s guest of This Cultural Life; a series of in-depth conversations with artists and creatives.
In the discussion, Emin discusses her friendship with David Bowie, and reveals Bowie wanted them to record a song together:
TE: “I was sitting in a Lebanese restaurant in Kensington in 1996 with a couple of other people and someone leaned over the table and said “I’m very sorry to interrupt, my name’s David and I just want to say how much I love your work.” And I looked up and David Bowie’s looking at me, and I said “likewise”. And we became friends. It was just amazing that the only person I was ever a massive starstruck fan of, I became friends with.”
TE: “When he played in Ireland and I went with him, I went to see him play and he said “this goes out to my friend Tracey, who’s going to be the most famous artist in the world”. And then he played Fame. Which is pretty brilliant.”
TE: “I never really talk about my thing with David Bowie much because it all sounds a bit unreal really. It was just brilliant. To me, it just made sense that we were friends.”
JW: “Was he a direct influence on your work?”
TE: “No, it was the other way round wasn’t it. With art, he really loved my art and I really loved his music. But he did – this sounds silly, because I can’t sing a word, I can’t sing a note – and he’d say to me “I could get you to sing. We could do a song together. I’ve got the perfect song that you could sing.” I said “I can’t sing” and he said “yes you could”. And I always wish I’d done it now, it would have been brilliant”
Talking about regrets, Emin says she and her mum were asked to be extras on Only Fools and Horses, and she turned down the offer:
TE: “I also regret not being an extra with my mum on Fools and Horses… Me and my mum were in Margate sitting on a bench eating some jellied eels, and the scout person came and asked us if we would be extras.”
JW: “When was this?”
TE: “Twenty years ago or something. I would have loved to have been an extra in Fools and Horses with my mum.”
JW: “Did they know you were Tracey Emin?”
TE: “No, we just looked so cool sitting there eating jellied eels and cockles. It would have been fun.”
JW: “Why did you say no then?”
TE: “I don’t know. I was probably too self - I was going to say I was too up my own backside, that’s what I was going to say – but yeah, definitely. I thought I was too good to be an extra in Fools and Horses. How deranged was I? It would have been too classically brilliant, especially with my mum”.
“I’ve been overlooked” – while discussing her love of painting, Tracey Emin says “I think people didn’t understand the seriousness of my work over the last twenty years”:
JW: “For so many people, you ask somebody in the street about Tracey Emin, they probably still associate you with ‘My Bed’ or the tent, which is called ‘Everyone I Ever Slept With 1963 - 1995’. Do you think the painting has been overlooked?”
TE: “No, I think I’ve been overlooked. I think people didn’t understand the seriousness of my work over the last twenty years. I think they just thought I was some sort of narcissistic deranged screaming banshee.”
Emin says it was love that saved her, following her cancer diagnosis and treatment:
JW: “I think you said – you probably said many times - that art saved your life. Now that science has also your life, has that given new meaning to the art?”
TE: “Science saved my life, definitely, medical science. My surgeon was lovely. A robot actually did all my surgery, which is quite incredible. But I think love saved me. I really think love saved me this time, not art.”
JW: “What do you mean?”
TE: “Love. I fell in love just before I found out I had cancer.”
And she discusses the loneliness of being an artist:
TE: “Being an artist is really lonely. You cannot be an artist hanging out at a giant party, it’s never going to work. There’s a part of you that has to go deep inside, like I say ‘inside the cave’, and if you don’t go inside the cave, you’re never going to make any art. You need to be able to stand and see yourself to be able to make the art.”
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