Grayson Perry, R.A., C.B.E.

Birch & Conran, London, where acquired by the present owner in 1990

London, Birch & Conran, Grayson Perry Ceramics, 1990.

The work is formed of 30 tiles mounted within a white wooden frame. The tiles are uneven in shape and execution in keeping with the artist's early style of working. There are areas where the glaze has not fully taken to the earthenware body, visible to some of the extreme edges and to some of the deliberately distressed areas, most notably the bottom right hand corner. These appear stable in their current state. There are further traces of minor surface dirt and matter, but this excepting the work appears in very good overall original condition. Please contact the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 with any questions regarding the present work.
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We are grateful to the Artist for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

‘A desire to make things and express oneself can lead people to end up working in this strange world of contemporary art.’

(Grayson Perry, Playing to the Gallery, Particular Books, London, 2014, p.41)