Grayson Perry
English artist
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| 2025 | Participated in the sixth series of The Masked Singer as 'Kingfisher', being eliminated in the sixth episode. |
| 2024 | Reported by The Guardian to have donated £180,000 to the Labour Party. |
| 2023 | Exhibition 'Grayson Perry: Smash Hits' at National Galleries Scotland, with an accompanying catalogue. |
| 2023 | Knighted in the New Year Honours for services to the arts. |
| 2021 | Received the Erasmus Prize for his unique visual language and approach to art that demonstrates art's accessibility to everyone. |
| February 2021 | Began the second series of 'Grayson's Art Club' in February. |
| 2020 | Broadcast 'Grayson Perry's Big American Road Trip' on Channel 4, exploring American social divisions by crossing the US on a motorbike. |
| 2020 | Presented 'Grayson's Art Club' during the COVID-19 pandemic, encouraging viewers to create and share artworks from lockdown. |
| 2018 | Explored Rites of Passage in a four-part Channel 4 documentary series, comparing how people in the UK deal with life events like death, marriage, birth, and coming of age. |
| 2018 | Awarded City Lit fellowship as part of the Mental Wealth Festival. |
| February 2018 | Exhibition 'Making Himself Claire: Grayson Perry's Dresses' concludes at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. |
| January 2018 | Exhibition 'Grayson Perry: The Life of Julie Cope' is held at Firstsite in Colchester, Essex, running from January to February. |
| 2017 | Produced 'Grayson Perry: Divided Britain' for Channel 4, exploring the public divide over Brexit and inspiring his pottery works. |
| 2017 | Delivered the inaugural Orwell Lecture in the North for The Orwell Foundation, titled 'I've read all the academic texts on empathy'. |
| 2017 | Crafts Council Touring Exhibition of 'Julie Cope's Grand Tour: The Story of a Life' with a published catalogue featuring tapestry illustrations. |
| 2017 | Published 'The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!' catalogue to accompany an exhibition of recent works. |
| November 2017 | Exhibition 'Making Himself Claire: Grayson Perry's Dresses' begins at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. |
| 2016 | Published his second autobiography, 'The Descent of Man', and his illustrated Sketchbooks, continuing to expand his written and visual artistic repertoire. |
| 2016 | Presented a series exploring masculinity for Channel 4 called 'Grayson Perry: All Man'. |
| 2016 | Perry does not attend his mother's funeral, indicating continued estrangement from his family. |
| 2016 | Created two television series: 'Born Risky: Grayson Perry' (four-part series for Channel 4) and 'Grayson Perry: All Man' (three-part series for Channel 4). |
| 2016 | Retrospective exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, with accompanying catalogue 'Grayson Perry: My Pretty Little Art Career'. |
| October 2016 | Commented that Jeremy Corbyn had 'no chance of winning an election'. |
| 2015 | Perry produced a pair of large-scale tapestries called The Essex House Tapestries: The Life of Julie Cope for A House for Essex project. |
| 2015 | Published 'Playing to the Gallery Postcards: Thirty-six Postcards About Art' through Particular Books in London. |
| 2015 | Published 'The Vanity of Small Differences' through the British Council in London. |
| 2015 | Appointed chancellor of University of the Arts London, succeeding Kwame Kwei-Armah. |
| 2015 | Perry writes 'The Ballad of Julie Cope' essay and creates a series of black and white woodcuts titled 'Six Snapshots of Julie', releasing a signed colour edition of 68. |
| 2015 | External work on A House for Essex is completed, located over the River Stour in Wrabness, Essex. |
| September 2015 | Perry endorses Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election, stating Corbyn was 'doing something interesting for the political debate'. |
| 2014 | Presented a three-part Channel 4 documentary 'Who Are You?', creating diverse portraits for the National Portrait Gallery, London. |
| 2014 | Guest edited an issue of New Statesman titled 'The Great White Male Issue'. |
| 2014 | Published book 'Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood', expanding on his 2013 Reith Lectures. |
| 2013 | Published 'The Vanity of Small Differences' with illustrations of six tapestries and accompanying essays. |
| 2013 | Perry creates the tapestry 'Julie and Rob' for the bedrooms of the house. |
| 2013 | Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Birthday Honours for services to contemporary art. |
| October 2013 | Delivered BBC Reith Lectures series 'Playing to the Gallery', examining the state of art in the 21st century, with lectures broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service. |
| 2012 | Published graphic novel 'Cycle of Violence'. |
| 2012 | Grayson Perry begins work on A House for Essex (Julie's House), a collaborative project with Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT) commissioned by Living Architecture. |
| 2012 | Awarded the Visual Arts award at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards for 'The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman' exhibition at the British Museum. |
| 2012 | Perry created The Vanity of Small Differences, a series of six tapestries telling the story of Tim Rakewell, inspired by William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress and developed during his TV documentary series All In The Best Possible Taste. |
| 2012 | Selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of the iconic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, celebrating British cultural figures. |
| June 2012 | Broadcast his three-part Channel 4 series 'All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry', exploring taste across UK social classes. |
| 2011 | Created an 8-episode BBC One documentary 'Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman', which follows Perry for over two years as he prepares an exhibition at the British Museum, selecting artefacts and producing new work. |
| 2011 | Returned to the annual Koestler Trust exhibition at London's Southbank Centre and judged the Art by Offenders award winners, alongside Will Self and Emma Bridgewater. |
| 2011 | Published 'The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman' catalogue to accompany an exhibition at the British Museum, featuring Perry's works and selected museum objects. |
| November 2011 | Subject of an Imagine documentary broadcast in November. |
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