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	Grayson Perry at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery / e-flux
		Grayson Perry has always been seen as a sort of rebellious character in the art world and his career has developed as that of a provocateur, making radical statements about contemporary society through his decorative pots, photographs and drawings.
		Perry delights in straying from normal classifications and it is through his intimate confessions and witty social commentary that his work finds its place in the contemporary art world.
		Perry describes his alter ego as a forty-something women living in a Barratt home, the kind of woman who eats ready meals and can just about sew on a button.
	www.e-flux.com /displayshow.php?file=message_87.txt (426 words)

	Grayson Perry - Pottery - The Saatchi Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		Inspired by Grayson Perry’s experiences as a transvestite, his ‘little girl’ vases hint at an autobiographical referencing: his penchant for wearing baby doll dresses, and the questions of male-role models and the development of his sexuality in his childhood.
		For Grayson Perry, this is an expression of an unrecoverable lost innocence.
	www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk /artists/grayson_perry.htm (932 words)

	Grayson Perry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grayson Perry (born 24 March 1960) is an award-winning English artist, best known for his ceramics and cross-dressing.
		Perry talks about his own life as a transvestite and the effect it has had on him and his family, discussing the pain and humiliation but also the thrill of frills, in a totally honest and unsparing way.
		Perry was born in Chelmsford in Essex, and educated at King Edward VI Grammar School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grayson_Perry (365 words)

	eyestorm - Grayson Perry - biography
		Perry studied fine art at Portsmouth Polytechnic, but it was an evening class in pottery that led most directly to the particularities of his current practice.
		Perry loves using clay, primarily because 'it is held in such low esteem in the artworld'.
		Perry may claim that he is 'less of a grumpy bastard these days', but he has a very long way to go before losing his capacity to irritate, surprise and delight.
	www.eyestorm.com /artist/Grayson_Perry_biography.aspx (641 words)

	Grayson Perry Famous TV Artist
		Grayson Perry was born in Chelmsford, Essex, in 1960.
		Grayson Perry's unique style was created 25 years ago, when he was living in a squat in Camden, where it was not common practice among the anarchic denizens to attend pottery classes.
		Grayson Perry, 43, collected the £20,000 prize at a ceremony at Tate Britain in London, dressed as his alter ego Claire.
	www.transgenderzone.com /features/turnerprize.htm (2536 words)

	Lynn Barber meets Grayson Perry \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		Grayson's father made only sporadic attempts to see the children and gave up entirely when Grayson was seven - Grayson thinks he was a believer in 'anything for a quiet life'.
		Grayson's stepfather was, among other things, an amateur wrestler, a man of enormous strength and uncertain temper who once threw a sofa across the room.
		Grayson avoided him as much as possible - he claims they never had a conversation - and spent most of his time in his bedroom, developing his fantasy world.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1681537,00.html?gusrc=rss (2688 words)

	BBC - collective - grayson perry exhibition tour and interview video and image gallery
		Perry was originally commissioned by The Collection in Lincolnshire to curate unseen objects in its storerooms and create a series of artworks that sat alongside them.
		Perry, like many of the current crop of mid-life artists, has been accused of trying to find a new gimmick to sell his work.
		Grayson Perry: The Charms Of Lincolnshire is at the Victoria Miro Gallery, London, until 12 Aug 06.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A13108079 (488 words)

	eyestorm - Grayson Perry - Love Plane [Pre-orders only], 2000
		Grayson Perry makes use of traditional craft techniques, but employs them to express radical ideas.
		Since Perry has described his works as 'stealth objects' that insinuate themselves and their ideas into the world, the choice of vehicle seems wholly apt.
		Perry once again proves himself the master of irresistible decoration with this uncanny object.
	www.eyestorm.com /works/Grayson_Perry_10233.aspx (163 words)

	Art Preview: Grayson Perry's vessels hold pain and beauty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When Grayson Perry first saw the work of the late American self-taught artist Henry Darger in an Outsider Art exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 1979, he knew he'd met a kindred spirit.
		Perry feared and avoided his stepfather, turning for comfort to a fantasy world that would include dressing in his younger sister's clothing.
		Perry's coup at the Tate changed some minds, but the place of the medium remains controversial, even in light of Perry's complex and layered approach that challenges traditional notions.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06033/647993.stm (759 words)

	www.likeyou.com - Grayson Perry - Victoria Miro Gallery, GB-London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Perry creates seductively beautiful pots to convey challenging themes: at the heart of his practice is a passionate desire to comment on deep flaws within society.
		The forms of the pots may be traditional, but Perry resolutely distances himself from the typical cannon of artistic ceramics.
		In the early 1980s Perry was a member of the Neo-Naturist group, and took part in performance and film works.
	www.likeyou.com /archives/perry_grayson_vmiro_04.htm (310 words)

	Grayson Perry - Guerrilla Tactics - Stedelijk Museum - Absolutearts.com
		The narratives themselves range in subject from Perry's youth in Essex and his transvestism, which was particularly hard to swallow for that bourgeois milieu, to a visual commentary on the British art world with its affected manners.
		At the beginning of the 1980s Perry was one of the Neo- Naturists in London — a group that embraced a contrary, consciously unfashionable culture, exploring new territory, as Andrew Wilson explains in his article in the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition at the Stedelijk.
		Perry participated with performances and made films, but quickly also applied himself to ceramics, with which he had his first successful exhibition in 1985.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2002/05/20/29936.html (488 words)

	Ceramics Today - Grayson Perry
		Grayson Perry was born in Chelmsford in 1960.
		Yet Perry is best known for his ceramic works, creating classically shaped vases decorated with figures, objects and text, which stand within a tradition stretching back for centuries.
		Perry employs and simultaneously subverts the craft form of ceramics, revelling in its second class status within world of fine arts, to explore challenging, yet witty and thought provoking themes.
	www.ceramicstoday.com /potw/grayson_perry.htm (586 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Grayson Perry has yet to decide which dress he will wear to the opening of his new show on Thursday night.
		Perry is keen to take me through the entire catalogue for his show, as much for his own pleasure as for my edification.
		Perry's transvestism is, he has always maintained, deeply linked to his fantasy of being a little girl.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/profiles/article1153580.ece (1357 words)

	Turner Prize 2003 \| Shortlisted Artists
		Grayson Perry (winner) was born in Chelmsford in 1960.
		Perry's subject matter sometimes comes from his upbringing in the Essex countryside, as depicted on the vase, I was an Angry Working Class Man 2001.
		In awarding the prize to Grayson Perry, the judging panel admired his use of the traditions of ceramics and drawing in his uncompromising engagement with personal and social concerns.
	www.tate.org.uk /britain/turnerprize/2003/perry.htm (331 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Grayson Perry
		Packed with insights, wit, and illustrations of Grayson's own work, this book is of interest to young boys who hug their dreams to themselves.
		Grayson Perry, the controversial winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, is best known as a ceramic artist, but he also works with embroidery and photography.
		Direct and down to earth, stuffed with insights, imagination and wit, and with illustrations of Grayson's own work, "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl" is both a mesmerising read and a lifeline for all young boys who hug their dreams to themselves.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0701178930 (283 words)

	www.likeyou.com - Grayson Perry - The Charms of Lincolnshire - Victoria Miro Gallery, GB-London
		Grayson Perry was born and grew up in rural Essex.
		From thousands of items in the collections Perry has selected categories of objects around each theme and in response to them has created new works, including pots, ceramics, embroidery, photography and for the first time pieces in cast iron.
		The title for the exhibition "The Charms of Lincolnshire" invokes a bucolic cliché of National Trust England (Perry has even designed the ubiquitous souvenir tea towel), whilst also suggesting that the items exhibited are talismans of some forgotten, arcane, rural voodoo.
	www.likeyou.com /archives/grayson_perry_miro_06.htm (449 words)

	Long excerpt about Grayson Perry's transvestite history, from his new book - mHB message boards
		Grayson Perry was the first transvestite to win the Turner Prize, arriving at the award ceremony in 2003 in his best frock, with a bow in his hair.
		Perry’s mother would implore her small, terrified son to rescue her when she was being battered, and took to sleeping with a chopper under her pillow in case she was attacked at night.
		Perry was the group’s designer and engineer, but the inept rep who arrived to investigate questioned him in front of his stepfather, and he was too frightened to complain.
	www.myhusbandbetty.com /community/showthread.php?t=3172 (4927 words)

	Why Men Wear Frocks from Channel4.com
		One day, Perry may feel ready to reveal to the world what motivations and experiences pushed him towards the mysterious, shameful twilight world so few men are prepared to acknowledge.
		Perry himself is happily married, to Philippa, and they have a daughter, Flo, who is 12.
		Perry was especially impressed with a group of pupils from an inner city school who he interviewed while filming.
	www.channel4.com /life/microsites/W/why_men_wear_frocks/interview.html (1417 words)

	Grayson Perry at Victoria Miro - Art - Time Out London
		Earlier this year, Grayson Perry was invited to make an exhibition from items in the store at The Collection, a new museum in Lincoln.
		‘My initial idea,’ says Perry, ‘was to focus these themes around an unknown artist, a mentally ill Victorian farmer’s wife driven insane by the loss of her children.’ Instead, he decided to project himself into the period and introduce his own efforts among the local artefacts.
		Perry describes this ‘Angel of the South’ as ‘a monument to all the children who have died too soon.
	www.timeout.com /london/art/events/216595/grayson_perry.html (441 words)

	Heraclitean Fire » Grayson Perry
		Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl
		I’ve just read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, which is the autobiography of Grayson Perry, the artist who won the Turner Prize in 2003.
		Perry is the artist who won the Turner Prize in 2003 for his subversive/satirical ceramics and is probably best known for collecting the prize dressed as a small girl.
	heracliteanfire.net /archives/category/art/grayson-perry (256 words)

	Tate Britain \| Turner Prize History \| Artists: Grayson Perry
		Perry creates seductively beautiful pots to convey challenging themes: at the heart of his practice is a passionate desire to comment on deep flaws within society.
		Perry see this as strengthening his role as observer and commentator: 'A lot of my work has always had a guerrilla tactic, a stealth tactic.
		Grayson Perry was born in Essex in 1960 and studied at Portsmouth Polytechnic.
	www.tate.org.uk /britain/turnerprize/history/perry.htm (183 words)

	Grayson Perry Online
		Original works by Grayson Perry available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
		Perry was awarded the 2003 Turner Prize, sponsored by the Tate Gallery, London
		All images and text on this Grayson Perry page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/perry_grayson.html (160 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Profile: Turner winner Grayson Perry
		Grayson Perry, a potter who has a female alter-ego called Claire, has won this year's Turner Prize.
		In his purple party frock at Sunday's Turner ceremony, Grayson Perry seemed to revel in the fact that he was not the stereotypical cool, fashion-conscious modern artist.
		In much of Perry's work, there is a sense of a childhood that he lost and has forever struggled to regain.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/3299335.stm (520 words)

	Grayson Perry
		Årets Turnerpristagare Grayson Perry har gjort sig känd för sina keramiska verk med döden och misshandlade barn som huvudmotiv.
		Beslutet att välja Grayson Perry framför konkurrenter som bröderna Jake och Dinos Chapman hyllas allmänt i Storbritannien.
		Bröderna Jake och Dinos Chapman, Grayson Perry, Willie Doherty och Anya Gallaccio tävlar i år om det brittiska priset på 20 000 pund.
	stonline.se /harkiv/gr/grayson_perry (158 words)

	The day my son smashed my Grayson Perry pot - The Art Newspaper
		The sound of a Grayson Perry pot hitting quarry tiles is one that will remain with me forever.
		One side declared that "in this urn are contained the ashes of potter Grayson Perry and his lifelong companion Claire", while the other delivered the disquieting news that "Grayson Perry made this urn to earn the money to buy the motorcycle on which he was killed".
		By consciously deciding against a spurious perfection which would have involved himliterally painting-out the memory of the mishap, he was allowing Funerary Urn to retain both its texture and its identity.
	www.theartnewspaper.com /article01.asp?id=524 (1247 words)

	Grayson Perry Heads To Lincoln For Major Show At The Collection - Birmingham City Guide news
		Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry is heading to Lincolnshire for his first show as both curator and exhibitor in an exhibition due to open at The Collection in Lincoln in February 2006.
		The Charms of Lincolnshire runs from February 4 to May 7 2006 and Perry has spent the last two years selecting objects from the collections of Lincolnshire museums and creating his own works inspired by them.
		Grayson Perry came to widespread attention after winning the Turner Prize for Contemporary Art in 2003 with his decorative pots exploring challenging social and personal themes including his experience as a transvestite.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /birmingham/news/ART33603.html?ixsid=OhKcNoM72Th (579 words)

	British Council
		Grayson Perry was born in Chelmsford in Essex and studied at Braintree College of Further Education and later at Portsmouth Polytechnic.
		By espousing this medium Perry takes an outsider status which he exploits to his own advantage.
		By choosing a medium most identified with decoration, and with both use and exchange value, Perry has created a subversive vehicle for political comment, satirical observation and autobiographical anecdote.
	collection.britishcouncil.org /html/artist/artist.aspx?id=19157 (157 words)

	BBC - collective - grayson perry
		Links to reviews grayson perry writes will appear here.
		Links to other pages that grayson perry publishes on Collective will appear here.
		grayson perry's latest weblog entry will appear here.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/U994810 (302 words)

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