{"id":657,"date":"2026-02-14T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/regrets-number-one-smoking-number-two-taking-it-up-the-wrong-hole-tracey-emin-on-reputation-radical-honesty-and-reform-tracey-emin-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:00:17","slug":"regrets-number-one-smoking-number-two-taking-it-up-the-wrong-hole-tracey-emin-on-reputation-radical-honesty-and-reform-tracey-emin-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/regrets-number-one-smoking-number-two-taking-it-up-the-wrong-hole-tracey-emin-on-reputation-radical-honesty-and-reform-tracey-emin-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole\u2019: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty \u2013 and Reform | Tracey Emin | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Harry tells me that when they are in the studio together, \u201cshe talks about what she sees in the canvas, and then starts painting it in\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I ask her if she can describe what that feels like. \u201cThere\u2019s the canvas, there\u2019s me, and there\u2019s this other space between us, and you have to go through it, that space, and you drag in everything behind you with you into it. It\u2019s like going through a weird tunnel. And the painting is whatever you\u2019ve dragged through the tunnel with you,\u201d she says. \u201cThere are many ways to be a painter \u2013 art has many rooms. But for me it\u2019s like an explosion of sorts. It\u2019s like my heart being ripped open and then throwing it all on to the canvas.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/feb\/14\/tracey-emin-interview-tate-modern-regrets-smoking\">www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/feb\/14\/tracey-emin-interview-tate-modern-regrets-smoking<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry tells me that when they are in the studio together, \u201cshe talks about what she sees in the canvas, and then starts painting it in\u201d. I ask her if she can describe what that feels like. \u201cThere\u2019s the canvas, there\u2019s me, and there\u2019s this other space between us, and you have to go through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,91],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-art","tag-tracey-emin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}