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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