Tracey Emins & Sarah Lucas

Tracey Emins & Sarah Lucas

Tracey Emin and friend Sarah Lucas’s done a project called The Last Night of the Shop which was a, 6 Month period finishing on 3rd July 1993 when the shop closed on Emin’s 13th Birthday, due to a party for 'Fuckin' Fantastic at 30 and Just About Old Enough to do Whatever She Wants', which was sponsored by Zeiss beer.

Tracey Emins & Sarah Lucas's project

This collaborative piece they made, to market their work where both of them displayed over a one hundred hand-made paper badges covering the themes of Pop culture, current trends, cartoons and political figures in the headlines. 

The paper badges Emin and Lucas made were fixed onto a cotton corduroy wall which was a hanging display where the badges they made, were sold in the Shop during the 6 months period it was open.

I wanted to research more about this piece because I thought the idea behind this piece was a good idea and was an interesting way to display a badge collection, using a different material than typically putting them in a box or on a pinboard and thought it was interesting to look more into. this inspired me to take photos of my collection in another perspective and here are my other photos taken in a different perspective to being in a box in a top or on the floor below:

Landscape Orientation 

Portrait Orientation

These photos of my collection was taken inspired by the works of Emin's and Lucas by me displaying my badges in a different perspective using a memory board with string and I liked this touch because I see badges as a reminiscence on a past memory so it made sense that I had displayed them on a memory board which would normally be used for photos or reminders.

I decided to take the pictures in two different perspectives to represent scale and to show I have looked at this display in more than one visionary and wanted to experiment with with scale, and the way to display my collection.