Tracey Emin is a British artist who was part of the YBA movement. She uses many "readymade" or "found" objects in her work.
An example of this is her work "My Bed" which was nominated for the Turner prize in 1999.
Tracey has used her bed and it's surroundings to create an installation which became quite famous (or infamous) because of it's controversial nature. It is assumed that Tracey simply took the contents of her room and placed them in the gallery almost exactly as they were in real life.
The work contains dirty underwear, cigarette butts, empty vodka bottles, stained sheets etc.
Tracey creates work which is so personal that, although often confronting, causes us to empathise with her as well as realise that nobody's perfect.
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/tracey_emin_my_bed.htm
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