Grayson Perry met his wife Philippa Perry in creative-writing evening classes in 1987.
After being friends for 6 months, the duo began dating.
In a 2010 interview, Philippa said; “Grayson and I started going for drinks after the class at a tatty old pub called The George, where we’d sit and smoke and bitch about everybody. We don’t smoke anymore”.
I knew he liked cross-dressing from the off. I think our first non-date – it wasn’t a “date” until about six months later – was a choice between a private view and a tranny club. I’d recently spent a week in New York and gone to dubious bars with transvestites dancing on tables, but this was more like a WI meeting – lots of men dressed as frumpy women hanging around talking about motorbikes. Very odd, but fun. Grayson’s look as a woman has got more glamorous. He’s found his own style, I think. I don’t suggest much, he might occasionally say, “The blue or the pink?”, Philippa revealed.
The English contemporary artist, Grayson Perry and psychotherapist and author, Philippa Fairclough married in 1992 and has since been together.
Through their union, the couple shares a daughter, Flo who is an illustrator and writer.
Grayson Perry lives in north London with his wife Philippa and their daughter.