Title: Tracey Emin (b1963)'Singing Bird' (For The Venice Biennale), Original 10 x 8cm Limited Edition, 2007
Description: Tracey Emin (b1963) "Singing Bird" (for the Venice Biennale), Original 10 x 8cm limited edition, lithograph, 2007

Description - 'Singing Bird', 2007, temporary removable tattoo, by Tracey Emin. From an edition of 1500 issued at the Venice Biennale in 2007 as a giveaway, distributed by the British Consulate as a gift to attendees of the Venice Biennale in 2007.

The number of temporary tatoos that remain in good unused condition is unknown, no one knows how many complete examples are still in circulation and existence.

Original Lithograph issued as a temporary tattoo.  No commercial edition was ever released; therefore, Emin's 'Singing Bird' is a highly desirable collector's item. Themes in her work include depictions of women masturbating or engaging in sexual acts, as well as birds as symbols of freedom.

Emins, is known for her deeply personal and emotionally charged works Singing bird, for the Biennale Venice exhibition is typical of her bold and provocative artistic style.
 Tracey Emin relatively unknown internationally represented the UK at the Venice Biennale in 2007 with the exhibition ‘Borrowed Light’ and exhibited her seminal and early work. She was elected to the Royal Academy in the same year. 

Emin was appointed Professor of Drawing at The Royal College of Art, London, and in 2012 Queen Elizabeth II appointed her Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her contributions to the visual arts.

Emin belongs to the group of artists known as the Britartists or the YBAs (Young British Artists) along with Gavin Turk, Damien Hirst and David Shrigley.

This contemporary art tattoo represents a small bird sitting or flying on a penis. Typical of Emin this image was conceived by Tracey Emin as a limited edition temporary limited edition tattoo. 

Artist: Tracey Emin OBETitle: "Singing Bird"Date: 2007
Signature: Signed in plate versoLimited Edition: 1 of 1500Framed: Size 10 3/4 in 27 cm square.Materials: Lithograph print as a temporary tattooSize: 4 × 3 in | 10.2 × 7.6 cm each

Rarity Limited edition 1500

Condition: The framed example still retains the protective cellophane cover, unused and framed, the rear of the tattoo backing has Tracey Emin signed in plate, instructions and Venice Biennale in 2007. Photo copy of verso included

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Condition: Used
Delivery option: Delivery
Location: NG3
Category: Art