Grayson Perry
EXHIBITED AT THE SAATCHI GALLERY
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Grayson Perry
Saint Claire 37 wanks accross Northern Spain
2003
Earthenware
84 x 55 x 55 cm |
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Perry’s urns are rendered with an incomprehensible master-craft: their surfaces richly textured from designs marked into the clay, followed by intricately complicated glazing and photo-transfer techniques. Perry makes ceramic pots, hand-stitched quilts, and outrageous dress designs, creating a cosmopolitan folk-art. |
Grayson Perry
Barbaric Splendour
2003
Glazed ceramic
67 x 35 cm |
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His form and content is always incongruous: classic Greecian-like urns bearing friezes of car-wrecks, cell-phones, supermodels, as well as more dark and literary scenes often incorporating auto-biographical references. |
Grayson Perry
Golden Ghosts
2000
Earthenware
65 x 39 x 39 cm |
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Unhappy expressions on the little girls’ faces in Golden Ghosts contrast sharply with the idyllic country cottages stenciled in the background. Perry often uses found images to create a mood or a tension – the exceptionally sad image of the seated girl is that of a child affected by the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station disaster. This evocative work hints at a familiarity with psychotherapy, made at a time when Perry was coming to terms with his own unhappy past. Perry’s transvestite alter ego, Claire, appears outlined in gold as the ghost in the title, dressed in the elaborate embroidered Coming Out Dress, made for a performance in 2000. |
Grayson Perry
Cuddly Toys Caught on Barbed Wire
2001
Earthenware
55 x 38 x 38 cm |
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Perry reveals ‘One of the reasons I dress up as a woman is my low self-esteem, to go with the image of women being seen as second class…It is like pottery: that’s seen as a second-class thing too’. |
Grayson Perry
Over the Rainbow
2001
Earthenware
53 x 41 cm |
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People say, ‘why do you need to put sex, violence or politics or some kind of social commentary into my work?’ Without it, it would be pottery. I think that crude melding of those two parts is what makes my work.” |
Grayson Perry
We've Found the Body of Your Child
2000
Earthenware
49 x 30 x 30 cm |
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This has the preciousness of a well-travelled Russian antique. Glazed in golds, silvers and whites, Perry’s urn tells a Gothic tale of a child’s death in a gloomy small town. The image is timeless: it could be yesterday or eighty years ago; but almost certainly it has to be Eastern European – nowhere else could such horrific grief be met with such fairy-tale romanticism. |
Grayson Perry
Defenders of Childhood
2000
Earthenware
46 x 21 x 21 cm |
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Winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, British artist Grayson Perry creates seductively beautiful pots that convey challenging themes; at the heart of his practice is a passionate desire to comment on deep flaws within society. Perry uses pots as narrative and figurative media, a round, curved surface for a bizarre or bitter story. |
Grayson Perry
Triumph of Innocence
2000
Earthenware
70 x 23 x 23 cm |
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Perry’s urns are rendered with an incomprehensible master-craft: their surfaces richly textured from designs marked into the clay, followed by intricately complicated glazing and photo-transfer techniques.
These highly decorative objects, often covered with layers of lustre, gold leaf and sugary kitsch transfers are, by the artist´s own admission, ´perversion to match the curtains´. |
Grayson Perry
I Want to be and Artist
1996
Earthenware
66 x 42 x 42 cm |
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A master of the incongruous juxtaposition, Grayson Perry scrawls savage satirical messages alongside sentiments of nostalgia for lost innocence. |
Grayson Perry
Two Children Born on the Same Day
1996
Earthenware
42 x 30 x 30 cm |
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Grayson Perry often uses found images to create a mood or a tension |
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Grayson Perry's BIOGRAPHY
Born in Chelmsford
Braintree College of Further Education, Art Foundation Course
Portsmouth Polytechnic, Fine Art BA
Lives and works in London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Collection Intervention, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives
2002
Guerilla Tactics, Barbican Art Gallery, London,
Guerilla Tactics, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2000
Sensation, Laurent Delaye Gallery,
1996-7
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1994
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris
1991-2
David Gill Gallery, London
1991
Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1990
Birch & Conran, London
1988
Birch & Conran, London
1987
Birch & Conran, London
1986
The Minories, Colchester, Essex
1985
James Birch Gallery, London
1984
James Birch Gallery, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004
A Secret History of Clay from Gauguin to Gormley, Tate Liverpool
2003
The Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Thatcher, The Blue Gallery , London
2001-03
The East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute, London
2001
Carts and Rafts, Camberwell College, London
2001-02
Sense of Occasion, MAC, Birmingham
2001
New Labour, Saatchi Gallery, London
Sense of Occasion, Birmingham and other centres around UK
La Altra Brittania Tecla Sala, Barcelona
Self Portraya, Group show at Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
2000
Protest and Survive, Whitechapel Gallery, London
British Art Show 5 curated by the Hayward Gallery touring to Edinburgh (Scottish
National Gallery of Modern Art, Royal Botanical Garden, City Art Centre, Talbot Rice
Art Gallery, Stills Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery), Southampton (Southampton City Art
Gallery, John Hansard Gallery, Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute), Cardiff
(National Museum of Wales, Centre for Visual Arts, Chapter), Birmingham
(Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Ikon Gallery)
1999
Plate Show, Collins Gallery, Glasgow
Contained Narrative, Garth Clark Gallery, New York
Hydra Foundation, Greece
541 Vases, Pots, Sculptures and Services, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Decadence, Crafts Council, London
1998-99
Over the Top, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, touring show
1998
Glazed Expressions, Orleans House
1997-98
Craft, Richard Salmon Gallery, London, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
1997-90
Objects of Our Time, Crafts Council, London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Belfast, Cardiff,
American Crafts Museum, New York
1996-97
Hot Off The Press, Tullie House, Carlisle, Glasgow, Norwich, Croydon Clock Tower,
Crafts Council, London
1996
Indigo Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Philippe Rizzo Gallery, Paris
1993-95
The Raw and the Cooked, Barbican Art Gallery, London and touring to Museum of
Modern Art, Oxford, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea, Shigarake Ceramic Cultural
Park, Japan, Museum of Dunkirk
1992
Fine Cannibals, Oldham Art Gallery and touring to University of Lancaster, Stockport
Art Gallery, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery
1991-92
Essex Ware, Chelmsford and tour to Konigsburg, Germany and Amiens, France
1990
Words and Volume, Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1989
Nishi Azabu Wall, Tokyo (commission by Nigel Coates)
1988
Read Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio
1986
Mandelzoon, Rome
1985
Gallozi e La Placa, New York
1983
Ian Birksted Gallery, London
1981-82
Young Contemporaries, ICA, London
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