Grayson Perry (born 24 March 1960) is an English contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster. 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.

Perry has had solo exhibitions at the Bonnefantenmuseum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Barbican Centre, the British Museum and the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Arnolfini in Bristol, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. His work is held in the permanent collections of the British Council and Arts Council, Crafts Council, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.


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## About Grayson Perry

Born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1960, Grayson Perry became interested in art through painting and later discovered a love for pottery, which allowed him to merge traditional craft with contemporary ideas. He received an education at Portsmouth Polytechnic college and became known in the 1980s as an artist who blurred the line between personal narrative and the wider cultural critique.
Perry’s persona known as Claire, and his use of alter-ego and femininity, became part of his public and artistic identity that impacted the ideas of gender and identity in his work. Perry won the United Kingdom’s Turner Prize in 2003, and since then, he has achieved a significant international reputation and has had milestone exhibitions at institutions including the British Museum (_The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman_, 2011) and the Serpentine Gallery. Perry’s work often includes autobiographical elements, biting political satire and contemporary reflections on the British experience.



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