Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry (born 24 March 1960) is an English contemporary artist. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries and cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene, and for dissecting British “prejudices, fashions and foibles”.

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 and has curated exhibitions. 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.

He 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. In 2008 he was ranked number 32 in The Daily Telegraph’s list of the “100 most powerful people in British culture”. In 2012, Perry was among the British cultural icons selected by artist 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.

  • Tomb Guardian, 2011
Ceramics Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Claire as the mother of all battles 1996, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Map of truths and beliefs 2011, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Our Mother, 2009, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Our Father, 2007, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Vote Alan Measles for God 2008, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Hold Your Beliefs Lightly 2011, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • The Kenilworth AM1. 2010, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • The Kenilworth AM1. 2010, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Bodyguard Jacket 2010, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Julie and Rob, 2015, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • 06 from Six Snapshots of Julie, 2015, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Julie and Dave, 2015, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • A Perfect Match, 2015, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • The Walthamstow Tapestry, 2009 excerpt, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • The Upper Class at Bay, 2012, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • The Annunciation of the Virgin Deal, 2012, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Expulsion from Number 8 Eden Close, 2012, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • High Priestess Cape 2007, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Claire’s Coming Out Dress, Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Bonnefanten museum Maastricht, Netherlands

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