Recently, Garnett visited Emin's newly renovated studio to reflect on the 48-year-old's "bad girl" years.
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.
Lately emin has been spending a lot of time exploring notions of love and the limits of desire.
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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).
Now, at 48, Emin finally seems to have sidelined her own personal distractions.
Recently, Emin was appointed professor of drawing at the Royal Academy of Art.
In 2006 his son, Emin, married the daughter of Azerbaijan's president, Ilkham Aliyev.
The show, supported by Help the Aged, aims to uncover a Tracey Emin or Damien Hirst of the older generation.
Yet the conversation kept turning to Emin's cat, Docket, "whom she says is the love of her life, " says Garnett.
"I said to my mother the other day, 'You know what, Mum, I could never have kids, ' " Emin continues.
Hockney gifted an image of the monarch's initials created on a iPad, while Emin submitted a monoprint portrait, HRH Royal Britannia.
On the top floor, Emin has her own private studio, with a kitchen, a well-stocked wine rack, a bedroom and bathroom.
"I'm not sure about that, " says Emin, as she takes a seat at the kitchen table in her East London home.
Its partner in northern Iraq, Genel Enerji, is a division of Turkey's powerful Cukurova Group conglomerate, controlled by Chairman Mehmet Emin Karamehmet.
Actors Maxine Peake and Willem Dafoe and artist Tracey Emin have been named on the line-up for this year's Manchester International Festival.
But Emin Sulimani reduced the deficit on 73 and Thiago Schumacher equalized with a header from his cross with three minutes left.
" Of his favorite Emin memories, photographer Johnnie Shand Kydd says, "All the best Tracey stories are unprintable and should probably remain so.
As I leave and make my way out into the cold, I struggle to connect Emin's past with the woman she is now.
While some critics have hailed Emin as an outstanding artist who speaks with unique intensity, she has also been disparaged as an untalented self-publicist.
As Emin stands before the impressive four-story building and searches for her keys, it's impossible not to notice how far the artist has come.
Swimming has always been one of Emin's great passions, along with "drinking, dancing, sleeping, making art and reading, though not in that order, " she says.
"You know, what I thought was love maybe wasn't, " Emin says.
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.
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