In the Gallery: Martin Gayford on Tracey Emin | White Cube

[@star_wars_miniatures]

Always got a lot of time for Martin Gayford! I still think it’s absolutely amazing he was immortalised in a portrait and sat for Lucian Freud

[@CharlesPerrett-q3x]

Took me a long time to come round to Tracey's work. I still problems with the large lumpen sculptures but the smaller bird sculptures are good. I thought her drawing in the RA Summer show had something Special and deserves the award it won. Above all she has proved herself to be gutsy brave and determined... overcoming personal difficulties which would have floored many of us She has always put herself and her work out there.. I have cast my doubts aside and accept her as a strong Individualist artist.

[@barrymcnamara]

Loved it I visited Bermondsey love Tracy Emin always have. Great coffee at Fuckoffee too! 😀

[@stconstable]

Saw Emin's first show 30 years ago.

[@AngusForsythe-fb5mz]

Emin reveals herself in a way that is extremely challenging and unsettling. The exhibition reminds you of the fragility of life, but afterwards I was a bit worried about her.

[@AliaNasreen-b8e]

I love her vision of work, she is super intelligent.

[@claramenteful]

So good!

[@KeithBrighouse-r3k]

If painting is an intellectual engagement, why doesn't Tracy Emin engage her intellect? The narrator is contradicting himself because moments before he said Tracy Emin paints intuitively. Which is it? I'm not against daubs on canvas and I roll my eyes at art world prices where they sell junk for millions. I think these canvases are a valid artistic expression but that is it, they are Tracy Emin's artistic expression and it is her persona that gets them noticed, not the intrinsic quality of her daubs. That said, art is and always has been a con-trick, "art" being the first three letters of "artificial", you have to make the viewer believe!

[@annaalbury2216]

Well said!