Grayson Perry a transvestite. At the age of 15 he moved in with his father's family in Chelmsford, where he began to go out dressed as a woman. When he was discovered by his father he said he would stop but his stepmother told everyone about it and a few months later threw him out. He returned to his mother and stepfather at Great Bardfield. Perry frequently appears in public dressed as a woman, and he has described his female alter-ego, "Claire", variously as "a 19th century reforming matriarch, a middle-England protester for "No More Art", an aero-model-maker, or an Eastern European
Grayson Perry exhibitions. He has published two autobiographies, "Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl" (2007) and "The Descent of Man" (2016), written and illustrated a graphic novel, "Cycle of Violence" (2012), written a book about art, "Playing to the Gallery" (2014), and published his illustrated "Sketchbooks" (2016). Various books describing his work have been published. In 2013 he delivered the BBC Reith Lectures. Perry has had solo exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, at the Barbican Centre, the British Museum and Serpentine Gallery in London, the Arnolfini in Bristol, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, and at the 21st