Field Trip To Liverpool: The Walker Art Gallery and The Tate
The Walker Art Gallery
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Tate Gallery
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In the Tate Modern, I was excited that the infamous Tracy Emin Bed was on display. This installation came about when she was going through a bout of depression and she spent three days in the bed. As well as the bed, it includes an empty box of cigarettes, used condoms, an empty bottle of wine and empty cans of beer. The sheets were stained and at the end of the three days, she crawled across the floor because she couldn't walk, but when she looked back at the bed, instead of seeing something disgusting, she realised that the bed had saved her live. The bed was first shown in Tokyo in 1998, and in this exhibition, it had a hangman's noose positioned above the bed. This represented suicidal thoughts during her bout of depression. The audience were not impressed and so when it was shown in the Tate Modern in London, the noose was omitted and the bed came an overnight success.
This inspired to turn an old headboard into a piece of artwork which I hung from the ceiling in my Exhibition at the University of Sunderland, where viewers had to walk around it to view both sides. This had served many years as a headboard and if it could speak would have many stories to tell. This is why I feel, like Tracy Emin, that it is an art work.
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