Up And Coming Artists Grayson Perry – Portrait of The Artist as a Young Girl An Artist Who’s Hard to Ignore Most people, if they actually know who he is, tend to have quite strong opinions about Grayson Perry. Mention his name and people fall into three broad camps; those who say ‘Grayson WHO?’, those who listen to Front Row on Radio 4 and used to watch the South Bank Show say “Ah yes, the controversial potter who won the 2003 Turner Prize” and everyone else smiles and says “The ridiculous-looking bloke in the dress”. As the wife of a man who’s utterly obsessed by ceramics and spends his life researching potters and stalking the older ones in order to ‘buy before they die’ I was aware of Perry quite a while … Read entire article »