How Tracey Emin is giving Munch the mother he never had

In the last four years, she has survived an aggressive cancer, opened her own art school – and produced stunning work. And she’s just getting started. She discusses sobriety, suffering and second chances

As she starts to rebuild her life after surgery, the artist shares her unflinching self-portraits taken during treatment, talks about seeing dead people in hospital walls, and explains why she’s buying herself a punchbag – and kittens

A lifelong fascination with the Norwegian creator of The Scream has been turned into 15 tonnes of bronze, soon to be installed at a new museum in Oslo