Caroline Coon: 'Even at 13, I knew I couldn’t be respectable'

A hero of the counterculture since the 1960s, Caroline Coon talks about managing the Clash, her days as a sex worker – and making paintings that were too explicit for the TateWhen Caroline Coon heard that she was about to get her first solo art exhibition, at the grand old age of 73, she burst into tears. Then she heard the proposed name for it – Caroline Coon: The Great Offender. “I just gasped,” she says. It didn’t take her long to realise that, actually, the n...

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