The Turner Prize nominee, 61, made the observation on The Louis Theroux Podcast, describing her contemporary Damien Hirst, 59, as a man who was a force when he was young but not anymore.
Dame Tracey and Hirst have both been Turner prize nominees, with Hirst winning the prestigious award in 1995, with his formaldehyde-preserved cow and calf, called Mother and Child,
Divided, the focal piece of his exhibition that year.
“Damien was a young artist that started off with a lot of that belief and a lot of that conviction. He was like a force. And now he’s not,” Dame Tracey said. Men “sort of peak in their forties”, while “women just tend to come and come and come and come and come, so as a woman, you carry on coming all your life until you’re old”, she added.
Dame Tracey is best known for her works Everyone I have Ever Slept With (1995) and My Bed (1993), both of which caused much controversy at the time.
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