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 made a series of large-scale tapestries, "The Essex House Tapestries: The Life of Julie Cope," which include "A Perfect Match" (2015) and "In Its Familiarity, Golden" (2015), and for the bedrooms, "Julie and Rob" (2013) and "Julie and Dave" (2015). He also wrote an essay, "The Ballad of Julie Cope" (2015) and created a series of black and white woodcuts, "Six Snapshots of Julie" (2015). The work was shown in an exhibition, "Grayson Perry: The Life of Julie Cope," at Firstsite in Colchester, Essex, from January to February 2018. In 2005, Perry presented a Channel 4 documentary, "Why Men Wear