About the work

Perry works with traditional media; ceramics, cast iron, bronze, printmaking and tapestry. His works reference his own childhood and life as a transvestite while also engaging with wider social issues from class and politics, sex and religion, as well as contemporary issues such as Brexit and divided Britain.

Date and country of birth

1960, GB>

About the artist

Grayson Perry (b. 1960, Essex) lives and works in London. Winner of the Turner prize (2003); awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List (June 2013); and a RIBA Honorary Fellowship (2016). Perry was elected a Royal Academician (2012); was appointed Trustee of the British Museum (2015);  and Chancellor of the University of the Arts, London (2015). Career highlights include delivering The Reith Lectures, BBC Radio 4 (2013); and Playing to the Gallery, published by Penguin. Select projects include Grayson Perry: Who Are You?, broadcast on Channel 4 with an accompanying display at the National Portrait Gallery (2014); and A House for Essex, commissioned by Living Architecture and designed by Perry and FAT Architecture (2015). Perry completed a series on masculinity for Channel 4 entitled All Man, and produced The Descent of Man, published by Penguin. Select solo exhibitions include The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!, Serpentine Galleries, London and Arnolfini, Bristol (2017); Hold Your Beliefs Lightly, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, and ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus (2016); My Pretty Little Art Career, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2016); Provincial Punk, Turner Contemporary, Margate (2015); Small Differences, Pera Museum, Istanbul (2015); and Who are You?, National Portrait Gallery, London (2014). Select group exhibitions include Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven and Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2018); Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11, Imperial War Museum, London (2017); God Save the Queen, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2017); It’s How Well You Bounce, Bethlem Gallery, Beckenham (2017); Ways of Seeing, Arter, Istanbul and Villa Empain, Brussels (2017 – 2018); Tread Softly: An Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (2017); House Work, Victoria Miro, London (2017); and Textiles: Painting With the Needle, Durham Cathedral, Durham (2016).