Grayson Perry’s Art Club

[Vagus]

Is back again, started last Friday for anyone interested and enjoyed his last series. I only caught the second half on Friday but saw the first half on catch up yesterday.
He comes across as such a nice person, and I love his ceramics.

[naomi24]

Anyone who fancies having a go at painting should go for it. I paint landscapes, in particular mountain scenery - and I'm known among my artist friends as 'The Rock Chick'. People and animals for me? Forget it.

[Canary42]

A few years ago (BC - Before Covid) I went to an exhibition of his, "The Vanity of Small Differences", a series of six large tapestries. A wonderful experience. He seems a lovely guy (I've only ever seen him on HIGNFY, so I'll have to look up this Art Club programme)

Footnote: The Vanity of Small Differences tells the story of class mobility and the influence social class has on our aesthetic taste. Inspired by William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress the six tapestries, measuring 2m x 4m each, chart the 'class journey' made by young Tim Rakewell and include many of the characters, incidents and objects Grayson Perry encountered on journeys through Sunderland, Tunbridge Wells and The Cotswolds for the television series 'All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry'. The television programmes were first aired on Channel 4 in June 2012. In the series Perry goes on 'a safari amongst the taste tribes of Britain', to gather inspiration for his artwork, literally weaving the characters he meets into a narrative, with an attention to the minutiae of contemporary taste every bit as acute as that in Hogarth's 18th century paintings.

[Vagus]

Thanks for that info, Canary, I had no idea about those tapestries so looked them up. Wonderful aren’t they?
I think you’d really enjoy his Art Club programmes.