Grayson Perry college in London take part in an annual competition to design new dresses for Claire. An exhibition, "Making Himself Claire: Grayson Perry's Dresses," is being held at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, from November 2017 to February 2018. As well as ceramics, Perry has worked in printmaking, drawing, embroidery and other textile work, film and performance. He has written a graphic novel, "Cycle of Violence." The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam mounted a solo exhibition of his work in 2002, "Guerrilla Tactics." It was partly for this work that he was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003, the first time it
Alter (name) Alter (name) Alter is both a surname and a given name. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): distinguishing epithet for the older of two bearers of the same personal name. For the Ashkenazim: from the Yiddish personal name Alter, an inflected form of (‘old’). This was in part an omen name, expressing the parents’ hope that the child would live a long life; in part an apotropaic name, given to a child born after the death of a sibling, but also said to have sometimes been assumed by someone who was seriously ill. The purpose is supposed to have been to confuse