Information AboutGrayson Perry |
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Perry was born in Chelmsford in Essex . He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford and he studied Fine Art at Portsmouth Polytechnic and took evening classes in Pottery . Perry's Vase s have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours. The subjects tackled by the decoration is often at odds with its superficially attractive and genteel nature: child abuse (in ''We¹ve Found the Body of your Child'', 2000) and sadomasochism sometimes feature, among other comments on social and sexual practices. There is often a strong autobiographical element. Images of Perry himself also frequently feature in his work. Sometimes it is his cross-dressing Alter Ego Claire who appears. ''Mother of all Battles'' (1996), for example, is a photograph depicting Claire holding a gun and wearing a dress in the style of Eastern European folk dress embroidered with images of war. He is married to a psychotherapist and has a daughter and lives in North London. An autobiographical account of his formative years, ''Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl'' (co-written with Wendy Jones), was published in 2006. Perry won the 2003 Turner Prize . EXTERNAL LINKS
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