Artist Tracey Emin is to make her big screen directorial debut with a film based on her life.
Emin, who won the Turner prize for her exhibit of an unmade bed, will recount her childhood in the seaside town of Margate, Kent.
She has teamed up with 24 Hour Party People director Michael Winterbottom to make the movie.
Emin has previously revealed that she was raped as a 13-year-old girl and the film is likely to be as candid about her personal life as her notorious art works.
These include a tent embroidered with the names of every man she has ever slept with, and a photograph of her naked in a beach hut.
Emin is putting the finishing touches to the script and is currently at the Cannes Film Festival trying to raise finance for the film.
She was approached to make it by Revolution Films, the company set up by Winterbottom and his partner Andrew Eaton.
Eaton said: "We went to Tracey with the idea and she said she had already thought of making a feature-length film.
"Like all her work, the film will deal with her own personal life. It will focus on her childhood growing up in Margate.
"All we need to do is raise the finance and then we can start casting for a young actress to play the part."
"Turner-winner Emin to Make Film of Her Life"
Available: pda.ananova.net/entertainment/story/sm_590831.html?menu=entertainment.story (May 19, 2002).
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