Tracey Emin, Tracey Emin: I Lay Here For You (Hand signed and dated book), 2022

Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin: I Lay Here For You (Hand signed and dated book), 2022

Hardback monograph (hand signed and dated by Tracey Emin) on Munken Lynx Smooth Natural White 170 gsm with endpapers of Colorplan Candy Pink 135 gsm; matt laminate printed cover with black head and tail bands

Hand signed and dated by Tracey Emin on the title page.

9 × 6 3/4 × 2/5 inches

Hardback monograph with illustrated boards and no dust jacket as issued, hand signed by Tracey Emin.

A beautifully designed publication I Lay Here For You, sumptuously illustrated and with a fascinating essay by Katy Hessell, author of The History of Art without Men.

About the project:
Tracey Emin’s first Scottish show since 2008, I Lay Here For You (28 May – 2 October) will offer an intimate encounter with love and hope set against the domestic architecture and informal woodland of Jupiter Artland. Imbued with connotations of both warmth and vulnerability, resonating with Tracey Emin’s belief of the ‘personal as political’ the exhibition will feature brand new work by the artist reflecting on the possibility of love after hardship.

Tracey Emin’s participation in Jupiter Artland’s 2022 season begins with the unveiling I Lay Here For You, a six metre bronze sited personally by the artist in an old-growth beech grove. Larger than life, powerful and at ease, the sculpture presents a radically different view of woman’s place in nature, as well as creating a dialogue with the new work presented by the artist across Jupiter’s indoor gallery spaces.

Tracey Emin, CBE, RA is a British artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin represented Great Britain at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 and was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2011. She was awarded the honour of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her contributions to the visual arts in 2012. Tracey Emin’s art is one of disclosure, using her life events as inspiration for works ranging from painting, drawing, video and installation, to photography, needlework and sculpture.

Emin reveals her hopes, humiliations, failures and successes in candid and, at times, excoriating work that is frequently both tragic and humorous. In 2020, a major solo exhibition entitled The Loneliness of the Soul, opened at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. The exhibition then toured to the new Munch Museum, Oslo in Summer 2021 to critical acclaim. This summer, Emin will unveil her largest artwork to date, The Mother, a permanent public commission for Oslo’s Museum Island. I Lay Here for You at Jupiter Artland will be Tracey Emin’s first solo exhibition in Scotland since her 2008 major retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.

Specs:
Tracey Emin: I Lay Here For You

Edited by Eleanor Edmondson

Texts by Katy Hessel, Nicky Wilson and Claire Feeley

Photography by Keith Hunter and Allan Pollok-Morris

Published by Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, 2022

Designed by James Brook

Hardback 165 x 220 mm 96 pages Printed and bound by Gomer Press Ltd, Llandysul, Wales, on Munken Lynx Smooth Natural White 170 gsm with endpapers of Colorplan Candy Pink 135 gsm; matt laminate printed cover with black head and tail bands

Produced as part of Jupiter Artland’s Artist Commission series, I Lay Here For You documents Tracey Emin’s exhibition – including her monumental bronze permanent sculpture – at Jupiter Artland in Summer 2022. Alongside photography by Keith Hunter and Allan Pollok-Morris, the book includes texts by Nicky Wilson and Claire Feeley as well as an essay by Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art without Men.