Grayson Perry
@Alan_Measles
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artist, broadcaster, transvestite, lecturer, worshipper of teddy bears, telly addict, likes being on two wheels
Joined May 2010
Today is our 29th wedding anniversary. I love her more than ever
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At the palace hoping to get in first and form a govt while the others are dithering
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Hot days in London: I’d quite like five minutes when I’m not forced to listen to someone else’s music, in my house, in the garden, in the street, even from other cyclists, it’s relentless. If playing music please be aware, everyone else HATES YOU.
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Hi @edfenergy I’ve been trying to speak to someone to explain how my electricity bill went from £300 a month to £39,000. Your call centre has been no help but you tried to direct debit this amount today from my account.
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Chris Whitty’s Cat safely fired. Think I’ll get him cast in metal as a monument to the crisis, but where could I put him🤔
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Arrive at studio to be confronted by loud youth stripped to waist asking if he could borrow a ladder to access my next door neighbour’s front light well. Though initially suspicious it turned out cute in the end. Look closely.
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Many of you will remember the lovely Paul Green and his birds from the animal ep of Art Club. Look what he sent me and @Philippa_Perry a lovely Mr Yaffle.Super Sweet man
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ANNOUNCEMENT!!!.#GraysonsArtClub returns in February!.Website is open for your submissions. Here is @Philippa_Perry and me telling you the weekly themes. We are so looking forward to seein what you have made.
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I am SO pleased. I’ll let you know what the themes are nearer the time.
We’re delighted that #GraysonsArtClub with @Alan_Measles @Philippa_Perry will be returning to @Channel4 for a second series early next year!
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Managed to finish off the cat sculpture I did for Animal week. Theme tonight is Britain #GraysonsArtClub 8pm channel 4
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At Paddington as I’m off to Cardiff for tonight’s show.Man come up to me and says ‘Caravaggio didn’t have to dress like that because he was a great painter’.That’s told me!
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Happened to be filming near Anthony Gormley’s Another Place so made a detour .I was impressed, I always loved the idea but was moved by the physical experience of visiting it
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Thanks so much for all the lovely comments. Let’s hope the show can open soon. Art Club will be back in the new year.❤️.
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Very disappointed for all the museums and galleries unable to open in tier three. Especially Manchester Art Gallery. They are gyms for the soul!.
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I didn’t want to upstage the bride so went low key comfy.
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No one can accuse us of making unnecessary journeys. We are rewilding our car.
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Please join my Art Club. I'm inviting the nation to my studio. I'll be showing you what I'm up to, talking to other artists and I want you to send me images of what you are making .#C4ArtClub.@Channel4 here is where you can upload your art.
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Overwhelmed by the positive response to tonight’s #C4ArtClub especially the lovely Alex. The whole team making the show are so talented and working so hard. Your comments are a real tonic.
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Thanks everyone for watching #Graysonsartclub and for all the lovely feedback. Keep making art. We keep going, grass keeps growing and rust never sleeps
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Planting by @Philippa_Perry finished off my little tomb model of our house I built on Art Club
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Culture lovers! Take advantage of this weird time. Our galleries and museums are reopening, book a visit and savour the experience of having the art to yourself for a moment. Lockdown has forced us to reflect, art may look different, better even.
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Thanks everyone for watching last night. Alan is drying out but he’s full of hope.
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Had fun with TV fashion guru Esme Young from Sewing Bee at CSM #UAL last night. I’m working with her Thursday where I spend the day in my underpants while Esme helps the students fit toiles onto me.
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Hope you enjoy #GraysonsArtClub tonight, 8pm C4, everyone has worked really hard to make a great show and we meet some lovely people.
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Happy New Year everyone .Who could believe so much could change in twelve months
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God I love Chris Packham.
Nature can be a solace when we feel most isolated. Many of us, including @ChrisGPackham, have been taking solace in the wild world around us during these strange times 💚. #Springwatch
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Pedalling along a cycle lane youth speeds towards me on electric scooter going the wrong way. I hold my line, he has to swerve, ‘Get out of my way you fucking old cunt’ he screams. I have entered a new era. First time I’ve been insulted using the word ‘old’.
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Me in the Sunday Times today. In front of my tapestry called Very Large Very Expensive Abstract Painting
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It’s over sixties night at the postmodern ceramicists social club
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I was paying full attention to every moment of the meeting
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Just finished final voice over for this series of #GraysonsArtClub and feel a bit sad but also happy as it’s a cracking episode to end on. See you Friday 8pm C4.
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By sheer coincidence I found I had worn the right dress to the beautiful Franz Hals exhibition at the Wallace Collection last night
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One of my enduring fears is becoming fashionable. I will persist with my beloved Crocs through this difficult time
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My daughter bought me some dungarees with an unusual pattern
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At the physio, we’re both wearing masks. Him ‘I’m just looking at your shoes’.Me ‘ I mainly wear Crocs’.Him ‘oh I know you wear frocks’.
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Loving #Strictly a good natured gust of normality. Such an abundance of goodwill. Cheesy but so human.
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When installing art, there is always a lovely moment when all the clutter is tidied away and you see the work as it was intended. My Tomb in front of the Nereid monument @britishmuseum .Chuffed with that.
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Just off to suck up to super rich people so they’ll buy my art
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One hour to go .Special love to everyone who is in it or worked on it❤️
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Well I’m stuck with her during lockdown I had better get used to it
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Just finished Schitt’s Creek, it’s been a warm and funny friend through lockdown😢❤️ just brilliantly done.
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Waiting to go on Have I Got News for You .Practising my ‘I haven’t got a clue’ face
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In 1996 I made this pot called Football Stands for Everything I Hate. Me and soccer had history. Gareth Southgate and his team are helping me find closure
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In the run up to the broadcast of #GraysonsArtClub I thought it would be fun to share some images that I find inspiring. I'll start with the beautiful quilts made of old clothing by Mary Lee Bendolph b.1935 a member of the famous Gee's Bend community in Alabama.
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Some activist artist round here sprays dogs shits pink
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It’s like new!!.
Newly discovered just outside of Verona, what could be this year's biggest discovery - an almost entirely intact Roman mosaic villa floor!
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At Paddington on my way to show in Bath. Thought I’d wear my Caravaggio look in case I bump into that man again
At Paddington as I’m off to Cardiff for tonight’s show.Man come up to me and says ‘Caravaggio didn’t have to dress like that because he was a great painter’.That’s told me!
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I’ve enjoyed SO many great programmes on BBC4, the music! The history! The art!.British Broadcasting Corporation: Save BBC Four from closure - Sign the Petition! via @UKChange.
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Kevin and I are locked in a battle of wills as to whether he’s owed a fourth dinner
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Charlotte Worthington 🥇.Basically BMX is now our National sport.
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A favourite haunt of mine, I like to mix with like minded souls.
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Chatted to David Attenborough about pottery this evening. I can die now.
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The wonderful Bridget Riley came to see the tapestry in which she let me use one of her paintings. She liked it phew!.Posh Cloths at Victoria Miro gallery till March 25th
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Off for some light shopping and lunch with my agent. Fab dress by #UAL student Curtis Nash based on Princess Diana’s maternity wear
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/2I hope my hard work in support of the arts has shown how much I believe art is for us all and brings joy to amateurs and professionals alike. In times of hardship we need the arts more than ever.
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Put my school uniform on today as I’m off to start my course at Central Saint Martin ‘s
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Making a little urn to send to Australia for my brother’s dog’s ashes.
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Having a day off touring in Glasgow, went to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and came across these old friends
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To misquote Jean Paul Satre, ‘Hell is other people’s music’.
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Art Club starts tonight!.I’m working on an artwork for a later episode and I thought I would ask you to help. Simple question, what word would you say is most now, most 2022? I’ll put the best suggestion on the work.
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Had a lovely day @mcrartgallery yesterday with artists Miranda, Barbara, Jacqueline and Georgia . #GraysonsArtClub the exhibition now open at last!
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A lovely and historic moment, Rebecca Salter RA has just been elected the first female president of the @royalacademy in its 250 year history
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We are ABBA voyage, it is very well organised and feels a bit like a religious cult event. I am anticipating being healed
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Some great news!.Art Club Exhibition is ON!.Gorgeous venue, lovely people, fab art. Let’s all hope the Covid gods smile on us🤞🤞🤞🤞.
We're really excited to announce that in partnership with @Channel4 and @SwanFilmsTV, we'll be launching the exhibition of Grayson's Art Club – one of the most inspiring programmes to emerge out of lockdown – on 25 November. #graysonsartclub.
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