Sep 9, 2024 · Perry is best known for his ceramics, but he also explores ‘the commonplace dramas of modern British life’ through etchings, woodcuts and tapestries. Specialist James Baskerville navigates the artist’s prints and multiples — illustrated with works offered at Christie’s.

Sir Grayson Perry (born 24 March 1960) is an English artist. 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]

Grayson Perry, one of the most prominent contemporary British artists, has continuously pushed the boundaries of art with his explorations into ceramics, sculpture, and performance. Yet, it is his tapestries that often stand out as his most powerful works.

Oct 3, 2020 · These six tapestries were created alongside the Channel 4, Bafta-winning documentary series All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry (2012), in which he visited three very different regions of England, exploring the taste of …

Jan 11, 2025 · For The Walthamstow Tapestry (2009), a textile work that scrolled 49 feet (15 metres) across a gallery wall, Perry arranged a series of detailed images—decoratively inspired by traditional Sumatran batiks but replete with references to contemporary consumer culture—into a sweeping narrative of a human life. In 2015 Perry completed a nearly ...

British artist Grayson Perry (born in 1960) uses traditional media such as tapestry, ceramic, and print-making to explore his fascination with contemporary social issues and the often provocative topics of religion, sex, gender, politics, class and identity.

In 2003, Walthamstow-based artist Grayson Perry was awarded the Turner Prize for his work in ceramics. He was credited with recasting Classical forms of iconography in a contemporary mold,...

Grayson Perry is a contemporary British artist best known for his ceramic vessels, printed tapestries, and design for A House for Essex. View Grayson Perry’s 864 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for …

Six large tapestries exploring the British fascination with taste and class by one of the UK’s best-known and best-loved artists – Grayson Perry. Inspired by Hogarth’s morality tale, A Rake’s Progress , Perry’s tapestries follow the socially-mobile life of fictional character Tim Rakewell from infancy to untimely death.

Jun 29, 2022 · Six colourful and richly detailed tapestries by British artist Grayson Perry have been installed in the nave of Salisbury Cathedral in the west of England.