Grayson Perry Grayson Perry Grayson Perry (born 24 March 1960) is an English contemporary artist. 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
Grayson Perry Welcome In!" and "I Found Myself in the Art World", were broadcast in October and November 2013 on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. He expanded the lectures into a book, "Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood" (2014). He guest edited an issue of "New Statesman" in 2014, entitled "The Great White Male Issue". In 2017 Perry gave the inaugural Orwell Lecture in the North for The Orwell Foundation, entitled I've read all the academic texts on empathy. Grayson Perry Grayson Perry (born 24 March 1960) is an English contemporary artist.