2009/10 Season, Matches

Tracey Emin's Travelling Chess Set

October 2009A kooky figurine set of needlework and abstract shapes from the artist who hasn't played the game since her childhood. In typical Emin fashion her quilted squares are awash with sexual allusions, from courtship instructions to "move faster" to graphic ink imagery and a message of affection on the ribbon-tied pouch for storing the bronze pieces.From the collection of the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester