Grayson Perry

Back in 2003, as the annual ‘Call This Art!’ tabloid storm raged outside, Grayson Perry – hardly dressed for the weather in a delicate £2,500 silk dress – accepted the prestigious Turner Prize and said, “Well, it’s about time a transvestite potter won the Turner Prize.” He remains one of the most memorable Turner Prize winners. Quite aside from the fabulous dresses worn by his alter ego, Grayson is the creator of seductively beautiful pottery.

Grayson’s work fuses classic ceramic forms with bright colours, graffito drawings, handwritten texts, photographic transfers and rich glazes. Combined with the wit and satirical sharpness of the artist, the surface beauty of his pieces conceals a darker world writhing with contemporary narratives, autobiographical references to childhood and societal injustices and hypocrisies. One of his earlier pieces was a plate depicting a crude crucifixion titled, ‘Kinky Sex’. It had potter’s wheels in a wobble across the pottery kingdom, but the route of Grayson’s career was set. Alongside a growing reputation in the art world, his notoriety swelled with works like ‘Posh Bastard’s House’, a vase that ridiculed the concept of cool, while ‘Poor In Spirit’ depicted people who had become rich but miserable.

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“I think my work has what you might call taxi-driver appeal, by which I mean you won’t get anyone coming up to me saying, ‘My three-year-old daughter could do that’, because they couldn’t.”
Grayson Perry

“Grayson Perry has stuck himself back together again and become certainly the hottest potter the British art world has ever known.”
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian

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