Tracey Emin Inspired Work

This piece was for a Ref Def Dif Project at university, the idea was we had to choose an artist and recreate their work in our medium. I chose Tracey Emin, focusing on her embroidered blankets and monoprinting. It was the traditional qualities of the embroidered blankets that inspired me to recreate them in another traditional art form, stained glass. Paints and enamels were used on various pieces of coloured glass to create the patterns typical of Emins blankets, some fusing was also used. The 'pieces' were then leaded in the traditional manner, as in the way Emin stitches them together.

The idea behind the piece was that it could have been used as the window to the Tracey Emin Museum, a shop in Waterloo Road Emin used from 1995 - 98. Due to the nature of the work it could be expanded exponentially to any size by adding new pieces.