Tracey Emin on No Money

[ALB]

Last Saturday the Review section of the Guardian invited various artists to design a new £50 note. Here’s what Tracey Emin submitted.

[Anonymous]

ALB wrote:

Last Saturday the Review section of the Guardian invited various artists to design a new £50 note. Here’s what Tracey Emin submitted.

 A high profile figure to support our case?  Is it worth contacting her?

[ALB]

Yes, why not? She’s just been appointed professor of drawing at the Royal Academy so we can write to her there asking about the thinking behind her £50 note design. The letter’s in the post.Let’s hope she doesn’t turn out to be another Sinead O’Connor who in an interview with the NME in 1992 said:

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So the only solution to all the problems in the world — starvation, homelessness, joblessness, etc — is to get rid of money (quoted in the January 1993 Socialist Standard).

but who later turned out to have all sorts of weird mystical and religious views.

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