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Grayson Perry

  26th February 2006  —  Issue 119
Since winning the Turner prize in 2003 for his illustrated pottery, the transvestite Perry has become a pantomime figure of the British art scene. Is this just celebrity transgression, or something more?

Grayson Perry lives in a charming Georgian house in a leafy square in central London. “Would you like tea or something stronger?” he asks in a rich, deep Cockney voice. “And toast? I always have toast around now.”

I ask him if he dresses up only for performance. [He is dressed normally in white shirt and jeans.]

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