Kent's world famous artist Tracey Emin has been given the all clear from cancer - after hitting out at those failing to understand the impact of her fight against the disease.

The artist from Margate found out she had a tumour after feeling pain in her bladder when she was working on a picture of a malignant lump in 2020.

The 59-year-old had many of her reproductive organs removed within weeks of her diagnosis, and was given a urostomy bag in August last year.

After battling the disease, she has now shared on Instagram the news that she's been given the all clear.

"I’ve been sober for 27 months and each day life becomes more interesting and I find myself caring and taking more interest in everything that’s around me," she wrote.

"I have to be honest, I wish I had my bladder (a good working one that wasn’t riddled with cancer). I don’t give a f*** about my womb or breeding apparatus.

"But I really miss my vagina, my urethra and those bloody little lymph nodes that kept everything tickity boo.

"But today, hearing I have the all clear, makes me very happy and feel good to be alive.

"There’s so much more to me than a hole."

Two days before Emin had posted about her love for the sea, saying "this is where I feel most alive" and asking for advice on how she could continue to swim with her stoma bag in the colder months while wearing a wetsuit.

But some of the responses she received proved less than helpful.

Sharing a picture of her on the beach with her stoma bag, she said: "So thank you for all the advice on how I can wear a wetsuit and p**s in it but I don’t think a lot of people understand I DON’T HAVE A BLADDER.

"This bag is my bladder, it’s connected directly to my kidneys through a stoma.

"If I undo the popper at the bottom of the bag, the seawater will get in.

"If I don’t open the popper and let the urine out, it explodes and I’m covered in urine.

"I can’t have the bag swelling up full of p**s inside the wetsuit because I can’t open it.

"I can’t get to it. Now I just swim back into shore and open it up in the shallows. It’s fantastic being in water because I can’t feel the weight of the bag.

"I feel so free and that’s how I want to feel in my wetsuit.

"Christ I’d love to non-stop p**s in it just let my bag flow, but not at the cost of getting an infection from unclean water."

Emin grew up in Margate before hitting the big time as one of the most recognisable iconic young British artists in the 1990s.

She remains perhaps best known for 1999's My Bed - a Turner-Prize nominated installation.

When it went up for auction in 2014, it sold for £2.5m.

Last month, she joined the likes of Sir Winston Churchill after being officially presented with the freedom of Margate.