Britart

To coincide with her Hong Kong exhibition, a magazine commissioned her ex-boyfriend Mat Collishaw to photograph her, but then turned down the results as they didn’t look like the “Mad Tracey from Margate” of the Britart years.

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By the late 1980s, while her contemporaries at Goldsmiths were fomenting a Britart revolution, Ray had established herself at a gallery in Drury Lane doing copies of Renoir, Monet, Caravaggio, Stubbs, Gauguin and Modigliani.

They include Sarah Lucas, the former bad girl of Britart who is now, perhaps of all her peers, most frequently named by younger artists as an influence.

Photograph: Ben Westoby Tracey Emin's first big show in her old home Margate must surely feel like a milestone for Britart's original bad girl.