How posh is your tea towel? Dry your dishes with an Emin
The National Portrait Gallery Shop extends its exclusive range created in collaboration with Tracey Emin.
Tracey Emin has collaborated once again with the National Portrait Gallery Shop on a new range of tea towels, featuring three of Emin’s preparatory acrylics on paper drawings from the 2023 commission The Doors which cover the entrance doors to the Gallery. Exclusive to the National Portrait Gallery Shop, they are available to pre-order from 19 May, each tea towel is made in the UK from organic cotton and priced at £15.00.
The new tea towel collection will sit alongside the ceramics range, Untitled, 2023 by Tracey Emin, consisting 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.
National Portrait Gallery Shop said: “The reaction to our Tracey Emin collection has been incredible since it launched early last year, with products constantly selling out. Many Gallery Shop customers snap up the entire range as gifts or keepsakes. Presented as a collection on the wall the plates look beautiful, as well as on the table or as practical gifts. The tea towels can be framed and mounted as original artworks - further democratizing fine art which is so important to Emin.”
The artist shares her thoughts on The Doors artwork: ‘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 available exclusively at National Portrait Gallery shops, both in-store and online and features Tracey Emin’s signature and the Gallery’s monogram.
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