Tracey Emin Tea Towel, Design 3

Exclusive to the National Portrait Gallery. 

This 100% organic cotton tea towel features a portrait from Tracey Emin's Untitled, 2023 series. Featuring a design from her preparatory acrylic on paper drawings for the unique commission The Doors, 2023, printed in deep blue to emulate the original brush strokes with Emin’s signature printed at the bottom. 

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The artist shares her thoughts on the project: ‘Women in history are greatly underrepresented. I didn’t want to depict specific or identifiable figures. I felt like the doors of the National Portrait Gallery should represent every woman, every age and every culture throughout time.'

Composition
100% organic cotton

Dimensions
48 x 70cm

Colour
White and blue

Features
Exclusive to the National Portrait Gallery

The Doors was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery and unveiled to celebrate the reopening of the Gallery in June 2023. 45 portraits that ‘represent every woman’ cover the three new entrance doors of the gallery in London. Hand drawn by British artist Tracey Emin and cast in bronze.

Country of Origin
Printed in the UK

Tracey Emin CBE RA, born 1963, is based in Margate, England.