Weaknesses for men and alcohol

In 1997, the year of Tracey Emin’s entry to The Turner Prize, Gillian Wearing’s video of unmoving women police officers won over the judges. Emin was short-listed for the winners’ podium but failed to win. Evidently, however, it was Emin’s seemingly drunken antics in post award television coverage that appealed to the masses. The Press headlined her name and face and these have attracted its attention ever since. Perhaps it could be said that the contrast between her plausible weaknesses for men and alcohol made her work attractive and marketable to the publicists.