‘I’m smiling and talking to you,” says Tracey Emin, sitting at her kitchen table. Courageous soul … Tracey Emin at the Royal Academy last November for the opening of her joint show with Edvard Munch. Photograph: Image courtesy Tracey Emin (2020)“Having a urostomy bag is quite a disadvantage for lots of reasons and it’s something that most people would want to keep a secret. I could be out somewhere public and it could happen – and people’d just think I’ve pissed myself or think I’ve been drinking. Photograph: Image courtesy Tracey Emin (2021)Returning to painting was exhausting and terrifying, she says.

Source: The Guardian May 13, 2021 04:52 UTC