This was Tracey's grandmother's armchair, into which she sewed countless personal details, from her and her twin brother’s names, to the nicknames the artist and her grandmother had for each other. Emin famously used the chair on a trip to the United States in 1994 promoting her book - and sat in it for readings.

Bought by Charles Saatchi and shown at the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997, this tent appliqued with former lover's names (including relatives, her twin brother and two aborted children) attracted much media controversy. In 2004, the tent was destroyed in the Momart warehouse fire (this photograph is actually a reproduction of the original work).

A controversial neon work by Emin.

In 1999, Emin was nominated for the Turner Prize and exhibited My Bed at the Tate Gallery. The sheets of the bed were stained yellow, and the floor was covered in debris such as condoms, knickers and cigarette packets.

The blue wooden beach hut Emin bought with her artist friend Sarah Lucas, was removed from Whitstable to be part of the Saatchi collection.

Emin is well known for her monoprints - here she has depicted Kate Moss in the nude. Tracey also created a unique neon work for her supermodel friend called Moss Kin.

This self-portrait adresses the artist’s desire for money and success and the use of her body and her emotional life to produce art.

This 20ft centrepiece was a version of the 70-year-old helter-skelter in Margate's Dreamland fun park.

This blanket is about the loss of an unwanted child.

This video installation had a set consisting of a wooden birdhouse, a DVD shot on Super 8, a monitor, trestle, plants, and a wooden ladder. The work was dedicated to Emin's father.

This blanket was made with hotel linens.

This handwritten and embroidered piece was submitted for an auction in aid of the Terrence Higgins Trust.

This work was exhibited as part of the V&A's Quilts 1700-2010 exhibition, showing British quilts made over the past 300 years. In To Meet My Past Emin has created a young girl's bed replete with uncomfortable truths and memories.

This large scale blanket was inspired in part by Margaret Thatcher.

Emin said of this work that it was "about the kind of women I hate, the kind of women I have no respect for, women who betray and destroy the hearts of other women".

This kitsch shed was created for the V&A's exhibition of ten garden sheds by contemporary artists and designers.

Emin's first ever piece of public art, this pigeon was comissioned to celebrate Liverpool's status as European Capital of Culture, and displayed in Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool.

In 2007, Keep me Safe reached the highest price ever made for one of Emin's neon works - over £60,000.

Earthernware pots ready to be auctioned at the London Art Fair.

At the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in 2007, Tracey Emin showed this neon artwork. She was chosen as a Royal Academician in that year.

Emin was chosen to produce work for the British pavilion during the Venice Biennale in 2007.

Tracey Emin unveils her flag commissioned as part of the Flag project at the South Bank Centre, London. The banner was made up of hand-sewn swimming sperm.

When the Mayor of London put out a request for artists to create a piece of contemporary art for the fourth plinth in Trafalger Square, Emin's proposal was for this group of meerkats.

Emin was comissioned to create this chess set by RS&A. The set is made up of bronze pieces and a multicoloured board of quilted fabric that can be rolled up and placed inside an embroidered cloth bag.

One of Emin's pieces in her Baby Things exhibition in Folkestone.

One of Emin's many charitable artworks, this is a detail from a surfboard she designed for Surfers Against Sewage. It was then auctioned at Bonhams to raise funds for the charity.

This neon work was displayed at Emin's exhibition Those Who Suffer Love at the White Cube gallery in May 2009.

For the Royal Academy's summer exhibition, Emin showed a painting of a piglet.

Emin in front of a large scale drawing displayed at Those Who Suffer Love at the White Cube gallery - her first show in London for four years.

This work formed part of Do Not Abandon Me, an exhibition consisting of collaborations between Emin and the late female artist Louise Bourgeois.

For the exhibition Earth: Art of a Changing World at the Royal Academy, Emin embroidered representations of flowers, insects and birds.