Tracey Emin 'less interested in sex'

Tracey Emin has said that she is becoming less concerned with sex and more interested in ideas as she gets older.

The iconic British artist told The Guardian that she used a collection of vintage pornographic magazines for a piece in her new exhibition and admitted that she "got some funny looks" when buying them.

Of her career, Emin said: "It always was about sex, not money. Sex was what held me in bed and got me out of it again in the morning.

"But now it's fading fast. I don't have the same craziness about sex that I had - I'm more interested in ideas."

Emin rose to fame as part of the Britart movement with pieces including her appliquéd tent Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 and the 1999 Turner-prize nominated My Bed.