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This winter sees the opening of The Loneliness of the Soul, a groundbreaking new exhibition at London鈥檚 Royal Academy, showcasing the work of Tracey Emin alongside paintings by her great hero Edvard Munch.

Munch鈥檚 work has long inspired Emin, from her early video piece Homage to Edvard Munch and All My Dead Children to her monumental new nine-metre high bronze sculpture, The Mother, set to be installed outside Oslo鈥檚 new Munch Museum in spring 2021. Today, the majority of her time is spent painting.

This documentary charts the affinities between Munch鈥檚 art and Emin鈥檚, exploring the many unexpected ways that this godfather of expressionism resonates with one of Britain鈥檚 pre-eminent artists.

Alongside Emin鈥檚 voice, which runs like a thread throughout the documentary, we hear from art historians and curators in Norway, showing the innovations in printmaking and sculpture that Munch pioneered in his lifetime alongside his more well-known painting work.

We see inside the homes where he created his work, still perfectly preserved today. We also find out more about Munch鈥檚 photographic and film work, media not normally associated with the artist but within which can be found clear correspondences with Emin鈥檚 work. These scenes are complemented by footage of one of Emin鈥檚 new monumental bronze sculptures being forged in a foundry in Stoke-on-Trent, and the works of Emin and Munch shown together at the Royal Academy.