Grayson Perry (born 1960) is an English potter and fashion icon, well I suppose not everyone would call him a fashion icon, but I certainly would. Anyway, he was the recipient of the Turner Prize in 2003, and honor to which he responded with the following statement
""Well, it's about time a transvestite potter won the Turner Prize."
His female alter-ego is named Claire and has been described by the artist himself in a number of ways including, but not limited to "“a 19th century reforming matriarch" "a middle-England protester for No More Art" "an aero-model-maker" "an Eastern European Freedom Fighter” and “a fortysomething woman living in a Barratt home, the kind of woman who eats ready meals and can just about sew on a button.”
He deals often with child abuse and teddy bears.
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