Grayson Perry is an English contemporary artist, writer, and broadcaster.
He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries, and cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary art scene, and for dissecting British “prejudices, fashions and foibles”.
Perry has published two autobiographies, Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl (2007) and The Descent of Man (2016).
He has also written and illustrated a graphic novel, Cycle of Violence (2012), written a book about art, Playing to the Gallery (2014), and published his illustrated Sketchbooks (2016). In 2013 he delivered the BBC Reith Lectures.
He was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003.
Grayson Perry Parents: Meet Tom Perry, Jean Dines
Tom Perry and Jean Dines were the parents of Grayson Perry.
Grayson was 4 years old when his father Tom, left home after discovering that his mother, Jean, was having an affair with their milkman Alan, whom she later married.
Jean Dines became estranged from her son Grayson following the publication of Grayson’s 2006 memoirs in which he revealed his unhappy childhood growing up in Essex and accused her of emotional neglect.
Jean Dines died a week short of her 80th birthday after suffering a stroke in 2016.