Controversial artist Tracey Emin has admitted she is "scared" that an exhibition looking back at 20 years of her work will be criticised.
The first ever retrospective of Emin’s work is being shown at Edinburgh’s Gallery of Modern Art as part of the city’s Art Festival.
She said she was used to getting "slagged off" but this show was so "immense" she was looking for support.
The exhibit includes famous works such as My Bed from 1998.
The work features an unmade bed with a urine-soaked sheet, littered with cigarette packets and condoms.
‘Quite shocking’
Emin said she had been very emotional about putting together the exhibition.
She said: "To see the different stages of my life through the work, that was quite shocking.
"I got quite emotional and I thought I would be a lot more analytical and distance myself from it.
"Last week with the instalment I got to an emotional grinding halt where it felt a bit too much.
"My whole life was in front of me."
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A small bronze sparrow which was part of a Tracey Emin sculpture has gone missing from its home in Liverpool.
The £60,000 artwork, which features the 10cm (4in) bird on a 4m (13ft) pole, was commissioned by the BBC for the art05 festival three years ago.
The pole remains in place outside The Oratory, by the Anglican Cathedral in Upper Duke Street, but the bird vanished about two weeks ago.
Merseyside Police are investigating its disappearance. Read more
More than 2,400 people will occupy Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth over 100 days as part of a living artwork.
Antony Gormley won the opportunity to showcase The One and the Other. His work will allow volunteers to stand on the plinth, for one hour at a time.
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Artist Yinka Shonibare’s Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle also gets a place on the plinth and reflects multicultural London through HMS Victory’s sails.
Gormley and Shonibare beat four other contenders to the honour.
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