The YCBA’s display of Tracey Emin’s works marks the first time her paintings have been showcased in a major North American museum.

But Tracey Emin has never been interested in perfection ... The smell of the oil paints and the turps made me feel physically sick, and even after my termination, I couldn't paint.

Tracey Emin is working like a demon ... “I think we all change every seven years, and I feel in a new stage and am loving it: living each day like the last, grabbing life,” she says.