and everyone i ve ever slept with. i was told that there was a good possibility that i would only have six months to live. four years ago, she was diagnosed with an aggressive bladder cancer, which she openly documented on her instagram. once portrayed as an enfant terrible of british art, she s now been made a dame by king charles for services to art. tracey, congratulations. or should i say dame tracey? congratulations. how are you feeling about it? well, i m smiling for lots of reasons. but dame tracey, i mean, it has a ring about it. it s really cool. i don t think there s ever been one before, and it s good. ifeel like it s a new generation of dames, really. what does it mean to you? there s nothing like a dame. no. don t get me singing. 0h, go on. no, i think for me, really seriously, what it means is that. it s the recognition from the king and from the establishment for what i ve achieved in my lifetime as an artist, which is kind of a man s world, really, and always
no. don t get me singing. 0h, go on. no, i think for me, really seriously, what it means is that. it s the recognition from the king and from the establishment for what i ve achieved in my lifetime as an artist, which is kind of a man s world, really, and always has been. and. i don t know, ifeel like i ve. it just feels really cool. and the best thing is, i only found out about it recently because i hadn t received the letter. so what happened? how did you find out about it? well, i went to buckingham palace for the garden party, and i was in a line up with five people out of 3,000, to shake the hand of the king and queen. and i was thinking, this is a bit weird. well, i m kind of up the top here. wonder why? and then on my way home, i got a message saying, from my old studio, that there was a letter for me, marked urgent from the cabinet office. so i thought, oh, i better go and see what it is. and there it was, asking me if i d accept a damehood. so do you think they
The Frozen actress and her husband believe there are no such things as taboo subjects to talk about to their daughters, 9-year-old Lincoln and 8-year-old Delta.
be able to show some of the words and images, because over the years, and people remember you for it, in the 70s, 80s, you focused a lot on taboo subjects. you know, i m thinking of the human body all of it, all of the orifices, all of the bodily fluids, of the faeces, the urine, the genitalia all in different ways were taboos that you put front and centre in your artwork. have you stopped doing that? no, i think all those pictures still exist. they travel the world. we have a show on in frankfurt at the moment with pictures from a retrospective. we only want to de shock, not to shock. sorry, you wanted to what? to de shock. what do you mean by.? to take the shock element out of it, to make it a normality that we can live with. not that anyone has to throw up the arms in fear and. just to get normal about things, yes. the germans would say, why do you want to be provocative? we never wanted
an anglican church at the other end, the opium den that oscar wilde went to was on brick lane, thejewish all on brick lane. extraordinary world. i want to come back to what you said, gilbert, about the journey. and you always place yourselves in the centre of this journey you ve made, in the course of 50 years of creativity. if we were looking at some of your earlier works, on bbc television, we wouldn t be able to show some of the words and images, because over the years, and people remember you for it, in the 70s, 80s, you focused a lot on taboo subjects. you know, i m thinking of the human body all of it, all of the orifices, all of the bodily fluids, of the faeces, the urine, the genitalia all in different ways were taboos that you put front and centre in your artwork. have you stopped doing that? no, i think all those