Tracey Emin dresses as a town cryer as she opens her new gallery in Margate ... trends now

Tracey Emin appeared in great spirits as she donned a town cryer costume to open her TKE Studios and T.E.A.R (Tracey Emin Artist Residency) in Margate on Saturday.

The artist, 59, commanded attention in a tricorne hat red coat and frilly white lace cravat for the occasion. 

Slipping her feet into comfy trainers she posed for snaps outside the venue before throwing open it's doors for the first time.

Later removing the garb she donned a sports t-shirt emblazoned with her name and the number 69.

Tracey bought the former Edwardian bathhouse in November 2021 before transforming it with the building now providing artist studios and gallery spaces.

In September Tracey revealed she had finally received the 'all clear' after her battle against bladder cancer, with an Instagram post.

The artist shared a picture of herself in her hospital gown about to go for her CT scans alongside a lengthy caption where she admitted she was 'very happy' and glad to be alive.

She found she had a tumour in her bladder in June 2020 and was suffering with very aggressive squamous cell cancer, which surgeons feared would kill her in months if it spread to her lymph nodes. 

She then underwent surgery to remove many of her reproductive organs, parts of her intestines and lymph nodes as well as being fitted with a stoma bag.

Tracey announced she was over two years sober and confessed she missed her removed organs, but declared: 'There's so much more to me than a hole'.

She wrote: 'ALL CLEAR. At the hospital about to have my CT scans and see my Surgeon.

'It doesn't mater how cool and stoic I am, inside I'm filled with worry. This time because I'm happy, this time because I feel well... I'm scared to say I'm happy. But I am, my life is so much better, I'm stronger and clearer. 

'I've been sober for 27 months and each day life becomes more interesting and I find myself caring and taking more interest in everything that's around me. 

'I have to be honest.. I wish I had my bladder (a good working one that wasn't riddled with cancer) I don't give a f*** about my womb or breeding apparatus.

'But I really miss my vagina, my urethra and those bloody little lymph nodes that kept everything tickity boo..

'But Today hearing I have the all clear... Makes me very happy and feel good to be alive. There's so much more to me than a hole.'

Prior to her cancer surgery, Tracey said she stayed up for 24 hours with her solicitor rewriting her will.

She then sent an email to 70 friends breaking the news of her cancer and instructing them: 'Do not contact me'.

She has been left with a stoma bag as a result of having 'half my body chopped out' and is sadly still struggling to paint. 

Tracey said in April 2021: 'I'm not painting because I'm using my willpower to stay alive. That's what I'm doing.'

Tracey, best known for works such as her unmade

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