'I don't go out of my way to shock'
"I had this outfit on with a sequinned codpiece," he explains. "And I arrived on the red carpet just behind Claudia Schiffer. So I'm standing next to her with this big codpiece, she's there looking gorgeous and all the paparazzi are thinking: 'Result.' And now here I am in Walthamstow. That's the sliding scale of weirdness I have to deal with."
But hang on a tick. That weirdness is of his making. Everybody knows that the words "Grayson Perry" are synonymous with "transvestite potter". The 46-year-old accepted the 2003 Turner Prize as his alter ego Claire,. She created clothes and chanel jewelry for others that were the same as she created for herself. a chaste little girl with a dress sense like Goldilocks, so no wonder his cross-dressing hogs the limelight more than his ceramics.
Well yes, Perry concedes. "It's good PR," he says. "But I get bored of answering questions about being a transvestite. It comes out of my mouth dry as cream-cracker crumbs. That's why I did the book."
His genial memoir, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl,. Large quantities of high quality replica watches.wholesale replica rolex watches, have been sold out here to various types of people. a series of interviews written up by his friend Wendy Jones, came out earlier this year. In it, Perry talks about trying on women's clothes while growing up in rural Essex, being roughed up by his stepfather, and his time as a raucous "tranny" art student at Portsmouth Polytechnic. It ends soon after Perry, aged 23, started getting into pottery.Before it was published, he worried that it might be a "Pandora's box". I ask what effect it had. His boisterous, blokey manner momentarily disappears. "My mother did seek recourse in a newspaper," he says, referring to an article in which she is quoted calling her son's artwork "disgusting". "But I've never read it."
Does he ever see her? "No." The atmosphere turns sepulchral. Perry sits in silence for a few beats before mustering up a forlorn monosyllable: "Sad."Once we move on to his new show, though, his freewheeling articulacy returns. The Charms of Lincolnshire opened at The Collection, Lincoln, in February. It delighted his dealer Victoria Miro so much that - in the art-world equivalent of a play transferring to the West End - she decided to bring it to her gallery in north London, where it opens next week.
In the catalogue, Perry describes the exhibition as "a poem written with objects". He rustled up the show at the invitation of The Collection,. The idea that a small Necklace is dangerous to patients is at best absurd. who asked him to rummage through the dusty holdings of several museums across the county. "The Museum of Lincolnshire Life have this huge warehouse full of stuff: farm machinery, steam engines, costumes, furniture - Victorian, mainly," he says. "So I started thinking about Victoriana and the themes around it that interest me: death,. Pandora bracelets online shop supply pandora beads,pandora bracelets,Silver,Gold,Murano Glass.We sure you will like when you see their workmanship. childhood, folk art, religion."
"I had this outfit on with a sequinned codpiece," he explains. "And I arrived on the red carpet just behind Claudia Schiffer. So I'm standing next to her with this big codpiece, she's there looking gorgeous and all the paparazzi are thinking: 'Result.' And now here I am in Walthamstow. That's the sliding scale of weirdness I have to deal with."
But hang on a tick. That weirdness is of his making. Everybody knows that the words "Grayson Perry" are synonymous with "transvestite potter". The 46-year-old accepted the 2003 Turner Prize as his alter ego Claire,. She created clothes and chanel jewelry for others that were the same as she created for herself. a chaste little girl with a dress sense like Goldilocks, so no wonder his cross-dressing hogs the limelight more than his ceramics.
Well yes, Perry concedes. "It's good PR," he says. "But I get bored of answering questions about being a transvestite. It comes out of my mouth dry as cream-cracker crumbs. That's why I did the book."
His genial memoir, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl,. Large quantities of high quality replica watches.wholesale replica rolex watches, have been sold out here to various types of people. a series of interviews written up by his friend Wendy Jones, came out earlier this year. In it, Perry talks about trying on women's clothes while growing up in rural Essex, being roughed up by his stepfather, and his time as a raucous "tranny" art student at Portsmouth Polytechnic. It ends soon after Perry, aged 23, started getting into pottery.Before it was published, he worried that it might be a "Pandora's box". I ask what effect it had. His boisterous, blokey manner momentarily disappears. "My mother did seek recourse in a newspaper," he says, referring to an article in which she is quoted calling her son's artwork "disgusting". "But I've never read it."
Does he ever see her? "No." The atmosphere turns sepulchral. Perry sits in silence for a few beats before mustering up a forlorn monosyllable: "Sad."Once we move on to his new show, though, his freewheeling articulacy returns. The Charms of Lincolnshire opened at The Collection, Lincoln, in February. It delighted his dealer Victoria Miro so much that - in the art-world equivalent of a play transferring to the West End - she decided to bring it to her gallery in north London, where it opens next week.
In the catalogue, Perry describes the exhibition as "a poem written with objects". He rustled up the show at the invitation of The Collection,. The idea that a small Necklace is dangerous to patients is at best absurd. who asked him to rummage through the dusty holdings of several museums across the county. "The Museum of Lincolnshire Life have this huge warehouse full of stuff: farm machinery, steam engines, costumes, furniture - Victorian, mainly," he says. "So I started thinking about Victoriana and the themes around it that interest me: death,. Pandora bracelets online shop supply pandora beads,pandora bracelets,Silver,Gold,Murano Glass.We sure you will like when you see their workmanship. childhood, folk art, religion."
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