Peter Doherty: “Addicted to Art“ / A Portrait Interview about Drugs, Art and his new Life

The ice bath really opens him up: Peter Doherty jumps into a big tub of ice cubes, three hours before his “Libertines“ concert in Edinburgh, and answers me in a 33 minutes long interview very personal questions about his addiction to drugs, the influence of heroine on making art, his relationship to Kate Moss and Amy Winehouse and the change he went through, especially thanks to his wife Katia: She is the one who introduced him to the ice healing! Does he really want to stop using? Well, he seems not to be so sure about it... Anyway there’s something more important to him: making art, poetry, music. Peter Doherty is a truely addicted artist. Listen yourself. This interview was made possible through the fantastic support by his manager Jay Stanley, his german art gallery janinebeangallery, his collector Christian Martinez-Schwabbauer and by ARD titel thesen temperamente who sent me for a report to Edinburgh in August 2022. Many thanks also to my editor Rayk Wieland and DoP André Böh