Tracey Emin commissioned her painting Black Cat (below) to be made into a tapestry. Last weekend it was on show at Craft Council’s Collect 2011 exhibition in London.
Tracey Emin says: “The Black Cat is one of my favourite paintings. It took me over seven years to complete, not because I was hesitant, but because it’s two completely different paintings. It has bold strong shapes as well as subtle washes of colour. I thought this would be perfect for a tapestry, and I am delighted with the work Caron and Philip have done in translating my work to the woven form.” Emin adds: “Black Cat has many layers, emotionally as well as literally. The painting underneath is landscape, and is of a figure crouching down with the words ‘Things I say NO to’. I then turned the painting so it was portrait, and with the inspiration of the Edgar Allan Poe story, The Black Cat, I proceeded to paint what appears to be a rather demonic self-portrait in my long black dress.”
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| Tracey emin & her cat Docket |
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| Docket sketch |
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