Tracey Emin is included in list of 100 most powerful UK women with the queen Elizabeth the second ranked no 1.

Tracey Emin was one of the leading figures of the Young British Artists movement of the 1990s. Hers is a uniquely provocative, confessional style which confronts issues such as trauma of abortion, rape, alcoholism and sexual history.Tracey’s father is Turkish Cypriot and her mother from the UK.

After gaining an MA in painting at the Royal College of Art in 1988, she had her first solo show in 1993 at the White Cube gallery, London. She came to greater prominence in 1999 with a Turner Prize nomination for her famous piece My Bed. Since then she has had numerous solo exhibitions around the world. She was elected to the Royal Academy in 2007, has been its Professor of Drawing since 2011 and received a CBE in 2013