Grayson's Art Club

Author: Grayson Perry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781399906432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
During the pandemic, Grayson Perry helped the nation find comfort and company through art during the hit TV series Grayson's Art Club by Swan Films for Channel 4. Each week Grayson hosted the show from his studio with his wife, Philippa (and often their cat, Kevin). Using video chat, Grayson spoke to famous artists and creatives about how they were spending their time and invited them to respond creatively to lockdown. Each week had a different theme - family, nature, food, dreams, work, and travel. Members of the public were also invited to share their own artworks and over 17,000 entries were submitted throughout series two in a vast range of mediums - from paintings and photography, to ceramics and textiles. Collectively, the artworks are powerful and very personal responses to the pandemic and form a lasting artistic record of the unprecedented times the nation experienced together. The artworks from season two are collected here to catalogue the exhibition at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Grayson's Art Club

Author: Kermode PERRY
Publisher: Grayson's Art Club
ISBN: 9781907796289
Category : Art, British
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
During lockdown, Grayson Perry, one of Britain's foremost artists, brought the nation together through art, helping them to unleash their creativity as part of his Channel 4 TV series.Every week he hosted the show from his own studio taking the country with him as he created his own new artworks.Grayson and his wife Philippa talked to other famous artists about how they were spending their time in isolation and invited them to make their own works in response to this unprecedented crisis.Due to the popularity of the programme, it continued into a third series, in 2022 with a range of new themes for the artists and special guests to explore - Love, Heroes & Heroines, Normal Life, Inside My Head, Holidays, Future, and The Queen.A central element of the programmes has been Grayson's keen interest to encourage members of the public to send him their artworks which they had been making at home, talking to them via video calls and choosing his favourite artworks.Over time there have been thousands of entries, an overwhelming response to his call out. The variety of entries using canvas, paper, photography, sculpture and mixed media demonstrates the enormous imagination, skill and creativity of the nation.These works, alongside those of Grayson Perry, Philippa Perry and the invited artists and celebrities, are collected here to catalogue the exhibition at Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham.Published alongside the exhibition 'Grayson's Art Club: The Exhibition', 2 Dec 2022 - 16 Apr 2023, MAC Birmingham, UK.

The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!

Author: Grayson Perry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846149634
Category : Art, British
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
There are some artists for whom 'popular' is a bit of a dirty word. Grayson Perry is not one of them. He thinks art shouldn't be an exclusive club for people who 'get' it, but for everyone - that's why his new show is called The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! This accompanying book contains all his latest works, in full colour - including his much-discussed 'Leave' and 'Remain' pots, and creations inspired by his recent TV series All Man - along with an introduction by Grayson, his sketches and his commentary on each piece, explaining the thinking behind them. The images and words here explore populism, celebrity, masculinity, identity, Britain today and Grayson himself. They invite us to look again at the things we think we know, and show us that nothing, not even Brexit, is black and white.

Playing to the Gallery

Author: Grayson Perry
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141979623
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
'I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called this book Playing to the Gallery and not 'Sucking up to an Academic Elite'). Based on his hugely popular BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures and full of pictures, this funny, personal journey through the art world answers the basic questions that might occur to us in an art gallery but seem too embarrassing to ask.

Grayson Perry

Author: Chris Stephens
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500094195
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A new examination of the early ceramic work of the world’s most famous potter, Grayson Perry, this book includes previously lost and unpublished pieces. Grayson Perry was the first ceramicist to win the Turner Prize, the internationally renowned award for the best young British Artist. He rapidly established a unique brand as “the transvestite potter.” This book examines the plates, pots, and statues from the 1980s to the mid-1990s with which he established his career. Perry sold many of his early pieces for modest sums and subsequently lost track of their whereabouts. With the help of an international art treasure hunt this book brings together both his known and previously lost and undocumented pieces. Accompanying Perry’s traveling exhibition, which opens at the Holburne Museum, Bath, in January 2020, this book features full color illustrations of his seminal ceramic works from this period. As well as an essay from the artist and critical essays from experts on Perry’s work.

The Vanity of Small Differences

Author: Grayson Perry
Publisher: Hayward Pub
ISBN: 9781853323157
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 119

Book Description
Telling a story of class and taste, aspiration and identity, tapestry series The Vanity of Small Differences saw Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry travel the length and breadth of the UK, 'on safari amongst the taste tribes of Britain'. The result is a monumental exploration of the 'emotional investment we make in the things we choose to live with, wear, eat, read or drive.'The six vibrant and highly detailed tapestries presented here bear the influence both of early Renaissance painting and of William Hogarth's moralising series, literally weaving characters, incidents and objects from the artist's research into a modern-day version of A Rake's Progress (1733).Featuring essays by journalist Suzanne Moore (The Guardian, The Mail) and Grayson Perry, alongside extensive commentary on each of the tapestries and their making, this book is an essential companion to one of the key contemporary art works of the last decade.Published on the occasion of the Hayward Touring UK exhibition Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences, touring in 2013–14 to Sunderland Museum in the Wintergarden (27 June – 29 September 2013), Manchester Art Gallery (31 October 2013 – 31 January 2014), Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (14 February – 11 May 2014), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (May – July 2014), Leeds Art Gallery (August – October 2014).

Grayson Perry

Author: Jacky Klein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
A major new monograph on the work of celebrated and controversial British artist Grayson Perry.

Ben Venom

Author: Camerlengo BISHOP
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907796241
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
All this Mayhem is a major exhibition of newly commissioned and recent work by internationally renowned, San Francisco-based artist Ben Venom that exemplifies his interest in the DIY aspect of heavy metal and punk rock culture combined with the tradition of quilting.Venom creates stunning, expansive patchwork quilts and clothing that often incorporate skulls, tigers and heavy metal lyrics, with his practice framed within wider counterculture contexts, and the legacy of post-war American art and craft.Venom's early influences come from the street - punk rock, heavy metal, and the skateboard community. At the heart of the artist's work is his use of re-purposed materials, such as fan donated band t-shirts, to create pieces contrasting the often menacing and iconic counterculture components of gangs, punk/metal music and the occult with the comforts of domesticity.The works intermingle fine art and craft, dispelling gender stereotypes of contemporary quilting practice and expressing a fresh and irreverent sense of masculinity.Featuring texts by Laura L. Camerlengo (Assistant Curator of Costume and Textiles Arts at de Young Museum, San Francisco), and Lindsay Bishop (photographer/filmmaker, and Social Anthropology researcher at UCL, London).Published on the occasion of the exhibition Ben Venom: All this Mayhem at mac Birmingham (22 June - 8 September 2019). This exhibition takes place during the city-wide Home of Metal festival in Birmingham, UK (summer 2019).

Grayson's Art Club: The Exhibition

Author: Grayson Perry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780901673992
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description

Polly Diamond and the Magic Book

Author: Alice Kuipers
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452152721
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Polly loves words. And she loves writing stories. So when a magic book appears on her doorstep that can make everything she writes happen in real life, Polly is certain all of her dreams are about to come true. But she soon learns that what you write and what you mean are not always the same thing! Funny and touching, this new chapter book series will entertain readers and inspire budding writers.