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Tracey Emin
/ England b.1963 /
I never stopped loving you
2010 / Neon / 23 x 179cm / Acc. 2010.425 / Purchased 2010 with a special allocation from the Queensland Art
Gallery Foundation
Tracey Emin
I never stopped loving you
2010
Since the late 1990s, neon has been a key medium for Tracey
Emin, used to emulate the cursive script of her handwriting.
This reflects both her confessional writing that draws on
private experience and family history, and the graphic rhythm
of drawing — an activity central to her practice.
I never stopped
loving you
could be a song title, a line of graffiti or the closing
line of a personal letter. Emin has mined the promotional, garish
appeal of neon to ‘write’ this short paean to lost love, capturing a
prosaic evocation of the trials, failures and fantasies of ordinary
lives and loves.