Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry is an English artist who works mainly on ceramics, using them to explore social and cultural norms, and to challenge them. To become more familiar with his work and way of thinking I watched a 3 part series on Channel 4 titled Grayson Perry: Who Are You? This series explores identity and personality in a very critical way, and shows him meeting with a variety of people to look at gender, fame, religion and identity. He specifically looked for people going through a crossroads or a crisis in identity, and explored how he could show this in his portraits which were then put on show in the National Portrait Gallery. In the introduction to the program, he describes artists as "part psychologist, part detective" when they are creating portraits, which really shows how he feels portraits should be made: showing much more than a photograph simply can.

"Our most beautiful and complex artwork that we can make is our identity" Greyson Perry

Ansett, R, (2013), Grayson Perry [ONLINE]. Available at: http://www.npg.org.uk/assets/microsites/perry/images/Perry_rotator_cropped.jpg [Accessed 03 December 14].

 Greyson considers himself a transvestite and dresses as his alter ego Claire. He talks openly about how being a transvestite goes much further than just wearing a dress and putting on make up, and also discusses how his cross dressing began at a very young age. After looking at my Sally Bowles designs and the images of Claire, I can see some similarities in their style and appearance which I think goes very well alongside my ideas of androgyny.


Grayson Perry | Artists | Victoria Miro. 2014. Grayson Perry | Artists | Victoria Miro. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/12-Grayson-Perry/. [Accessed 02 December 2014].

Grayson Perry- Display. 2014. Grayson Perry- Display. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/graysonperry/display.php. [Accessed 02 December 2014].

Grayson Perry - Artist's Profile - The Saatchi Gallery. 2014. Grayson Perry - Artist's Profile - The Saatchi Gallery. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/grayson_perry.htm. [Accessed 02 December 2014].
  
Grayson Perry: Who are you? 2014, Television program, Channel 4, 22nd October- 5th November. Available at: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/grayson-perry-who-are-you/on-demand/55337-001. [Accessed 02 December 2014]