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
Rachel Perry (artist) in 2011 at DeCordova include "Sticker Paper," a wallpaper collage of fruit stickers, and "New and Improved," made up of dry cleaning and grocery store twist ties. In addition to these installation works, she presented a series of photographs titled "Lost in my Life," self-portraits in which the artist is nearly camouflaged in sets composed of everyday materials, often featuring other artworks in these images. In 2016, as an Artist-in-Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Perry created a temporary installation for the museum's facade that asked the question "What do you really want?" The installation was on view from