Grayson Perry | |
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![]() Perry in 2007 | |
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Education | Portsmouth University |
Known for | Fine art |
Spouse | Philippa Perry |
Children | Flo Perry |
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Patron(s) | Charles Saatchi |
Sir Grayson Perry CBE RA Hon FRIBA (born 24 March 1960) is an English contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries,[1] and cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene, and for dissecting British "prejudices, fashions and foibles".[2]
Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance. There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of Perry as "Claire", his female alter-ego, and "Alan Measles", his childhood teddy bear, often appear. He has made a number of documentary television programmes[3] and has curated exhibitions.[2] He has published two autobiographies, Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl (2007) and The Descent of Man (2016), written and illustrated a graphic novel, Cycle of Violence (2012), written a book about art, Playing to the Gallery (2014), and published his illustrated Sketchbooks (2016). Various books describing his work have been published. In 2013 he delivered the BBC Reith Lectures.[4]
Perry has had solo exhibitions at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh,[5] and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.[5] His work is held in the permanent collections of the British Council and Arts Council,[5] Crafts Council,[6] Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,[7] Tate[8] and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.[9]
Perry was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003. He was interviewed about the win and resulting press in Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World.[10] In 2008 he was ranked number 32 in The Daily Telegraph's list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".[11] In 2012, Perry was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork—the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover—to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life.[12]
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