Tracey Emin has been made a Dame in the King’s Birthday Honours.
The artist is a recipient of the Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire honour.
She is among 130 people from the South East to have received honours in HM The King’s Birthday Honours List 2024.
Emin burst onto the scene with the Young British Artists of the ’90s with confrontational pieces like her appliquéd tent listing Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, and her Turner Prize–nominated My Bed, reproducing her unmade bed after a four-day bender, with crumpled sheets, spent condoms, empty vodka bottles and a pregnancy test.
In January 2017, she bought her 30,000-square-foot stretch of the Thanet Press building in Margate and created a flat and studios.
In 2020 the artist received a diagnosis of bladder cancer and underwent an operation in the Summer which meant the removal of many of her female reproductive organs. She now also has a stoma bag but is in remission from the cancer.
In 2022 she was made an Honorary Freewoman of Margate in recognition of her international acclaim as an artist and her investment in the cultural and physical environment of Margate.
The following year she opened TKE Studios (Tracey Karima Emin) and her artist residency project in Margate, adding to her growing portfolio of investment in the town which includes the former Margate Constitutional Club and One Union Crescent.
More than 1,000 people from across the UK received honours in Friday’s list.
Including fellow Turkish Cypriot Cemal Ezel was awarded a OBE the founder of Change Please. started in 2015 aiming to end homelessness through the power of employment.
Ezel has been awarded for services to Social Enterprise and to Homeless People.
100% of our profits and donations of Change Please. goes towards helping those experiencing homelessness, especially women with children, by training them to become baristas – giving them the support, job prospects and self belief they need to thrive.
Since 2015 the company has been come an national wise success and now moved onto the global platform, winning World’s Best Social Enterprise 2018. Listed by Bloomberg as the World’s most promising startup, Change Please was also Sir Richard Branson’s 2018 “Start Up of The Year” in The Sunday Times and they’ve recently won the Queen’s Excellence award for Social Mobility 2019.
With now sites across the UK, Paris, Ireland and Australia, Change Please are having an impact to the lives of homeless people on an international basis.
