Celebrating Tracey Emin’s unique National Portrait Gallery commission, The Doors, 2023 - a range of beautiful bone china features six of Emin’s preparatory acrylics on paper drawings.
The range, Untitled, 2023 by Tracey Emin, consists of two 27cm diameter plates (£65 each), one featuring a single portrait in the centre and the other featuring six selected portraits around the rim, two 9cm tall mugs (£35 each, sold individually) each featuring three selected portraits and a 7.5cm tall milk jug (£35) featuring a single portrait.
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. I used myself as a mental template, but the end result is many different women, some that exist in my mind and some that perhaps exist in reality, here and now, as well as from the past. I want people to stand in-front of the doors and say, ‘she looks like my mother, she looks like my best friend, my daughter.’
The collection is an open edition, available exclusively at National Portrait Gallery shops, both in-store and online. Each fine bone china piece is silk screen printed with two colours (cobalt blue and black) in Stoke-on-Trent, England and presented in a navy-blue lidded gift box embossed in white with Tracey Emin’s signature and the Gallery’s monogram.
The bone china collection launches 1 March both in store and online https://npgshop.org.uk
