Tag: Grayson Perry

  • It’s How Well You Bounce

    In the grounds of the UK’s first hospital to treat people with mental illness, lie a fascinating museum and gallery. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Bethlem Gallery is holding an exhibition of work by those, including Grayson Perry, who…

  • Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!

    This exhibition delivers everything you would expect from the colourful Grayson Perry, but it is also a reminder that he is as much a part of the establishment as he is an original thinker

  • House Work

    The house and its potential as a home, a prison, a marker in one’s life, is fertile territory and an inspired idea for an exhibition but, in this case, one lacking in impact

  • The Neo Naturists

    Disaffected by the politics of Thatcherism and an art world overtaken by masculine neo-expressionism, the Neo Naturists covered their nude bodies in paint and burst on to the 1980s’ London club scene in an attempt to explore body image and…

  • Facing History: Contemporary Portraiture

    This show looks at how contemporary artists are influenced by the past as they seek to represent their present, and questions the nature of what a portrait depicts

  • Drawing as the catalyst for contemporary printmaking in the UK

    We look at how printmaking has influenced the work of Arthur Watson, Paul Coldwell, Christopher Le Brun, Charlotte Hodes and Grayson Perry

  • Charlotte Hodes: interview

    In The Grammar of Ornament: New Paper Cuts and Ceramics, artist Charlotte Hodes takes as her cue the seminal 19th-century publication The Grammar of Ornament (1856), by the architect and designer Owen Jones,1 to investigate the relationship between the female…

  • The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things

    Curated by Mark Leckey De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill 13 July – 20 October 2013

  • ARCHITECTURE + CERAMICS = SCULPTURE

    Nicholas Rena and Matthew Smith: Proving Ground New ceramic vessels by Nicholas Rena with paintings by Matthew Smith

  • Grayson Perry. The Vanity of Small Differences

    Grayson Perry’s current exhibition at Victoria Miro features his new series of six tapestries, The Vanity of Small Differences, which explores notions of taste through the lens of social class