BRIGHT IDEAS
Tracey Emin’s work on bone china range
THE National Portrait Gallery shop has created an exclusive bone china range in collaboration with Tracey Emin.
It celebrates the artist’s National Portrait Gallery commission, The Doors, and features six of Emin’s preparatory acrylics on paper drawings.
The range, Untitled, 2023 by Tracey Emin, consists of two 27cm diameter plates that retail at £65 each, with one featuring a single portrait in the centre and the other with six selected portraits around the rim.
There are two 9cm tall mugs at £35 each, which feature three selected portraits, and a 7.5cm tall milk jug, also £35, decorated with a single portrait.
Emin shared her thoughts on the project, saying: “Women in history are greatly under-represented. I didn’t want to depict specific or identifiable figures, I felt like the doors of the National Portrait Gallery should represent every woman, every age and every culture throughout time.
“I used myself as a mental template but the end result is many different women, some that exist in my mind and some that perhaps exist in reality, here and now, as well as from the past.
“I want people to stand in front of the doors and say, ‘she looks like my mother, she looks like my best friend, my daughter’.”
The collection is an open edition, available exclusively from the National Portrait Gallery shops, both in-store and online. Each fine bone china piece is silk screen printed with two colours, cobalt blue and black, and is made in Stoke-on-Trent.
Find it in the gallery shop and online at www.npgshop.org.uk.