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Grayson Perry works in a variety of media, but is best known for the ceramics he has been making since the early 1980s, which are decorated with figures, objects and text. He 'wants to make something that lives with the eye as a beautiful piece of art, but on closer inspection, a polemic or an ideology will come out of it', and there is a strong autobiographical element in his work.

Perry's first exhibition of ceramics was held in London in 1983. Awarded the Turner Prize in 2003, he has had major solo exhibitions at Mudam, Luxembourg (2008), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan (2007); Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2006); Barbican Art Gallery, London (2002); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2002). In 2009, Thames and Hudson published Grayson Perry, an anthology of his work by Jacky Klein. Represented by the Victoria Miro Gallery, Perry has also curated exhibitions in British institutions: Unpopular Culture (2008); The Charms of Lincolnshire (2006); and The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman at The British Museum in 2012. 

England & Co have exhibited early works by Grayson Perry in group exhibitions including The Neo Naturists (2007), and more recently in Between Worlds: Rituals & Pagan Rites, which also featured an early film by Jennifer Binnie, Grayson/Flowers/Jewelswhich was described by critic Louisa Buck in a review of the exhibition as "a stunning sequence of Perry in an earlier - and more alluring - transvestite incarnation, overlaid by flowers and trying on jewellery."


Drawings & works on paper   

If evil must reign… 1984
13.5 x 10.25 inches
Ceramic plate
SOLD
Exhibited: Between Worlds: Rituals & Pagan Rites, England & Co, 2013

Untitled c 1985
11 x 14.5 inches
Oval ceramic platter
SOLD
Exhibited: The Neo Naturists, England & Co, 2007

I Am A Planet… c 1984
8.75 x 15.25 inches
Glazed ceramic teapot
SOLD
Exhibited: Between Worlds: Rituals & Pagan Rites, England & Co, 2013

Whore of Essex c 1986
11.5 inches diameter x 3 inches high
Ceramic platter with legs
SOLD
Exhibited: The Neo Naturists, England & Co, 2007. Acquired from England & Co by the Fry Art Gallery, Essex.

Untitled (God of war) 1996
15 x 18 inches
Ceramic patter
SOLD

No God Shall Tame Me… I Am War c 1985
7.5 x 11 x 4.75 inches
Ceramic sculpture (unique)
SOLD

Untitled 1985
each 16 inches high
Pair of ceramic vases
SOLD
Exhibited: The Neo Naturists, England & Co, 2007

Now in our green and pleasant land
(Ye Dear Olde Bugger) c 1984
11 x 14.75 inches
Oval ceramic platter
SOLD
Exhibited: The Neo Naturists, England & Co, 2007

Kinky Sex c 1983
9.75 inches diameter
Ceramic plate
SOLD
Exhibited: The Neo Naturists, England & Co, 2007

God Is Sex c 1985
9.75 inches height
Ceramic pot
Private collection. Exhibited: The Neo Naturists, England & Co, 2007

Let the little children suffer c 1986
11.5 inches diameter
Ceramic plate
SOLD
Exhibited: The Neo Naturists, England & Co, 2007

Commemorative Plate Number 27
(Death place of abstract art) c 1986
9.75 inches diameter
Ceramic plate
SOLD

Commemorative Plate Number 30
(Psychedelic Rhythms of Life) c 1986
9.75 inches diameter
Ceramic plate
Private collection. Exhibited: The Neo Naturists, England & Co, 2007

Commemorative Plate Number 17
(1709 House in Woods) c 1986
9.75 inches diameter
Ceramic plate
SOLD

Life is terrible in its glory c 1985
14 inches high
Ceramic urn
Exhibited: Camulodunum, First Site, Colchester. Private collection.

Saint Jen c 1983
9.75 inches diameter
Ceramic plate
Private collection. Exhibited: The Neo Naturists, England & Co, 2007