However Tracey Emin, who was nominated in 1999, warned the prize was "a bit of a gauntlet".
Tracey Emin, David Hockney and Grayson Perry have given works to the Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee.
Lucian Freud, Anish Kapoor and Tracey Emin are among the artists who have represented the UK in previous years.
The paper puts an original work by Tracey Emin on its front page.
Across Kent, artist Tracey Emin was appointed CBE in the New Year Honours list for services to the arts.
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Tracey Emin is a controversial English artist, one of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists).
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Actors Maxine Peake and Willem Dafoe and artist Tracey Emin have been named on the line-up for this year's Manchester International Festival.
Early works by leading artists, including David Hockney, Chris Ofili and Tracey Emin, have also been found in the collection of the Royal College of Art.
Damien Hirst's sheep in formaldehyde won in 1995, Chris Ofili's cow-dung paintings took the prize in 1998 and Tracey Emin's unmade bed made last year's shortlist.
When author and journalist Natasha Garnett first met artist Tracey Emin, they were on the dance floor of the Walpole Bay Hotel on Emin's 36th birthday.
If your postcode is W1 you share it with Madonna, NW1 is the current hangout of actor Jude Law and controversial artist Tracey Emin has made E1 a trendy address.
Disgust was something many of the YBAs played around with just think of Tracey Emin's unmade bed, Jake and Dinos Chapman's modeled children with their phallic noses or Chris Ofili's use of elephant dung.
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Artists Tracey Emin, John Baldessari and Sarah Lucas will take part in the exhibition do it 20 13 at Manchester Art Gallery, based around artists and visitors carrying out written instructions from other artists.
There was some consensus that in terms of the quality of the art on view, FIAC is overtaking Frieze, its London rival, begun in 2003, which rode the wave of the Young British Artists like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin to prominence.
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" Of his favorite Emin memories, photographer Johnnie Shand Kydd says, "All the best Tracey stories are unprintable and should probably remain so.
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