[Closed] Grayson Perry: Who Are You?

Agreed. I meant to post about this last night - not usually into art, but that programme was great and had me appreciating the sort of thing I wouldn't normally. Only really watched because I'd read about him in a bike mag (STW?)

Absolutely brilliant telly! I think he's the most interesting Britsh artist out there by a country mile. His subjects are genuinely well thought through and challenging. Its really fascinating the left field way he approaches what is essentially social commentary.

And the end results are absolutely beautiful. I loved the tapestries he did as a comment on the class system. Amazing

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Well worth watching on [url= http://www.channel4.com/programmes/in-the-best-possible-taste-grayson-perry ]4OD[/url] if you missed it

Excellent nterview in Bike magazine a month or so ago.
All round good bloke and a very interesting artist.

No idea he'd been on the box - will give it a go.

I went to see his tapestries when they were on display in Birmingham.
They really are amazing up close.
Fantastic programme too. Loved watching the creative processes behind his work and how the ideas manifested. 🙂

I quite enjoyed [url= http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/10/grayson-perry-rise-and-fall-default-man ]this thing he wrote[/url] the other day.

Particularly enjoy him describing men's ties as "colourful textile phalluses hanging round their necks".

he's not bad on a skateboard and mtb too

Brave man,he used to race a Proflex 857 at Beastway 😉
Went for a pint with him and a few others after the races.
I never knew about the Claire/artist thing till years later,it never came up in conversations 🙂

He did the lectures on radio 4 last year top bloke.

aye the radio 4 lectures were great

I never knew he rode bikes

Bugger I forgot to record this - assume it will be on iPlayer.

He did the lectures on radio 4 last year top bloke.

I was about to mention the Reith lectures. They were very interesting to listen to, and if you missed them, they are still available here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sj965

I loved the tapestries he did as a comment on the class system

His modern take on Hogarths [i]The Rakes Progress[/i]. Are they still in the Manchester City Gallery do you know ?

We both have an employer in common...however I've yet to bump into him around here. If I did, the first thing I would do after shaking his hand would be to ask him about his bikes.

Its on [url= http://www.channel4.com/programmes/grayson-perry-who-are-you ]4OD[/url] hels.

trailofdestruction - I'm afraid you missed it. Wasn't on for long

Blimey, I got a few paragraphs into that Default Man article and lost the will, he made the same point a dozen times.

Excellent artist though and I love his pottery.

Great programme, amazing person, serviced his shock off a marin many years ago 😀

Got to see them fortunately, although quite by chance. Would love to see them again though.

He always struck me as a bit of self-obsessed, attention-seeking ponce but after listening to his Reith Lectures I was genuinely converted.

He's fiercely intelligent and talented man who makes an awful lot of sense when he wants to, fair play, cap doffed.

Yes, his Reith Lectures were amazing. Full of wise observations. I listened to them all twice!

He's fiercely intelligent and talented man who makes an awful lot of sense when he wants to, fair play, cap doffed.

What works though - as telly - is he's smiling when he tells you all this stuff. His telly stuff is so successful because its like having a really clever friend.

His autobiography is great.

I saw the Tapestries at the Foundling Museum in London. Very impressive and entertaining pieces.

The 'in the best possible taste' series is probably one of the best things I've seen on UK TV in the past couple of years, he has a fantastic capability to observe without judging, which the tapestries sum up really. If people liked that, i'd recommend seeking out "Meet the Natives" from a few years ago, also on 4.

I've got a copy of "The Ride" journal, (4) in front of me with an interview called 'Potter's Wheels', with Perry. Its a great little read, and there's a real sense of his enthusiasm for bikes and racing. Apparently he used to make trophies for Eastway with categories like "The rider who placed the lowest who had the flashiest bike".

The whole thing is very quotable, but one line is very STW; "I also get slightly upset when arty people get into a subculture, because they kind of professionalise it and it loses its edge. They knock off the rough edges, everything becomes tasteful. You don't get the exuberance and the naffness that was there before."

No idea he was a mountain biker. Fair play, quite like some of his stuff.