Invented female personas have become a familiar aspect of Perry’s practice, and Shirley Smith joins a Victorian farmer’s wife, and Essex ... Grayson Perry and Victoria Miro) Originating as a private ...

On the eve of a new exhibition, the artist talks to Geordie Greig about his alter ego ‘Claire’, surviving emotional abuse and why when he looks at exquisite Sèvres china, he thinks ‘Eastbourne charity ...

My aim is to unsettle by showing what’s real and what isn’t,” says Grayson Perry, all messy hair ... His upbringing in Essex was violent and deprived. His stepfather hit him.

Meet Shirley Smith – or as she would have it, the Hon Millicent Wallace – at Marylebone’s Wallace Collection. A fitting ...

In the case of Sir Grayson Perry ... I will burn your house down to get a great photograph!” Ansett had very rare access to Perry at work, at the invitation of the artist’s gallery.

Some 40 totally new works by the artist will be on show from March 28 in the exhibition Grayson Perry: Delusions Of Grandeur at the Wallace. The collection normally houses paintings from the 14th ...