Grayson Perry, The Essex House Tapestries: The Life of Julie Cope, 2015. Courtesy the Artist, Paragon Press, and Victoria Miro, London. © Grayson Perry
The definitive talk on Britain’s favourite artist, by the author and lecturer who knows him best. Jacky Klein has written the authoritative monograph on Sir Grayson Perry’s work, a bestselling book now in its third edition and covering the artist’s life and work, his loves and artistic inspirations, from his earliest student projects of the 1980s to his very latest work.
Jacky Klein has been a close collaborator of Perry’s for more than a decade, interviewing him numerous times and enjoying exclusive access to his archive. In this talk she reveals his techniques and sources, his favourite themes and subjects, and the diverse artworks he has produced across ceramics, tapestry, print-making, sculpture and architecture.
How did Perry, almost unknown until his mid-40s when he unexpectedly won the Turner Prize, come to be Britain’s most popular artist since David Hockney and Lucian Freud? …And where might this peculiarly British National Treasure be going next?
Grayson Perry by Jacky Klein is published by Thames & Hudson (2020). Ticket holders will receive a code for 25% off the retail price of the book via their website. UK orders only.
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This is an online event hosted on Zoom which can be watched live, or on-demand for one month afterwards. You will receive your link to access the event in your email confirmation and the on-demand link after the event ends.