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• Dec 06 2023 Harrogate Convention Centre A Show All About You Grayson Perry
• Nov 30 2023 Halifax, Victoria Theatre Grayson Perry
• Nov 28 2023 London, Theatre Royal Drury Lane Grayson Perry - A Show All About You
• Nov 26 2023 Norwich, Theatre Royal Grayson Perry - A Show All About You
• Nov 12 2023 Aberdeen Music Hall Grayson Perry - A Show All About You
• Nov 11 2023 Edinburgh, Usher Hall Grayson Perry - A Show All About You
• Nov 10 2023 Perth Theatre & Concert Hall Grayson Perry - A Show All About You
• Nov 09 2023 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne Theatre & Opera House Grayson Perry - A Show All About You
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Grayson Perry announces tour for 2023

FANE are delighted to announce that contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster  Grayson Perry  will be embarking on a UK tour for 2023. The tour will begin in Basingstoke on 15 th  September 2023 and conclude at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London on 28 th  November. Priority tickets go on sale at 10am Thursday 17 th  November with general on sale taking place Friday 18 th  November. Tickets are available via:

www.fane.co.uk/grayson-perry

Grayson Perry: A show All About you questions what makes you, you? Is there a part deep inside of you that no one understands? Have you found your tribe or are you a unique human being? Or is it more complicated than that? In the last few decades a combination of individualism, the internet and the culture war has, for many of us, brought our feelings about our own and other people’s identity to the fore.

Grayson Perry, white, male, heterosexual, able bodied, English, southerner, baby boomer and member of the establishment takes a mischievous look at the nature of identity in his new show that will make you laugh, shudder, and reassess who you really are. It’s one not to be missed!

Grayson Perry is an English contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene and for dissecting British “prejudices, fashions and foibles”.

In 2003, he became famous as the first ceramic artist to win the Turner Prize and was awarded a CBE in 2014. In 2020 he became the first British Artist to win the Erasmus Prize since Henry Moore. Along with his art, Grayson has written and presented documentaries. The first one was for Channel 4 entitled Why Men Wear Frocks, an adaptation from the book, Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl in which he examined transvestism and masculinity in the 21st century. Grayson spoke candidly about his own experiences and the effect it has had on him and his family. The documentary received a Royal Television Society Award for Best Network Production.

In 2012 his C4 series, All in the Best Possible Taste received a BAFTA for Specialist Factional Television. Grayson’s C4 programme Who Are You? led to the accompanying artwork from the series being housed in the National Portrait Gallery, a first for the Gallery. The programme was awarded Best Arts Programme at The Royal Television Society Programme Awards and Specialist Factual at the BAFTAs, that year Grayson was also awarded Documentary Presenter of the Year at The Grierson Awards.

Throughout the global pandemic, Grayson made it his mission to unleash creative collectively and unite the nation through art, turning the camera back on the viewer with the challenge: have a go yourself. Grayson’s Art Club aired each week from his studio – taking the country with him as he created new art works throughout lockdown. The art created was displayed in a public exhibition, that chronicled the changing moods of Britain and provided a record of the historic times we’re living through. The programme won the Arts and Presenter’s Award at the 2021 RTS Programme Awards, shortly after it returned for a second series. Grayson Perry’s Big American Road Trip, also aired in 2021, which saw him explore the changing landscape of Trump’s America; from race to class and identity.

Grayson Perry said:  “I can’t wait to head back out on the road next autumn with my brand-new show – which is all about you! I will be visiting almost every corner of the country in my biggest tour yet. Don’t be a stranger. See you there.”

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17 September 2023 7.30pm

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What makes you, you? Is there a part deep inside of you that no one understands? Have you found your tribe or are you a unique human being? Or is it more complicated than that?

In the last few decades a combination of individualism, the internet and the culture war has, for many of us, brought our feelings about our own and other people’s identity to the fore. Grayson Perry – white, male, heterosexual, able bodied, English, southerner, baby boomer and member of the establishment – takes a mischievous look at the nature of identity in his new show that will make you laugh, shudder, and reassess who you really are.

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Tickets go on general sale on 18 November

FANE are delighted to announce that contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster Grayson Perry will be embarking on a UK tour for 2023.

The tour will begin in Basingstoke on 15th September 2023 and conclude at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London on 28th November. Priority tickets go on sale at 10am Thursday 17th November with general on sale taking place Friday 18th November.

Grayson Perry: A show All About you questions what makes you, you? Is there a part deep inside of you that no one understands? Have you found your tribe or are you a unique human being? Or is it more complicated than that? In the last few decades a combination of individualism, the internet and the culture war has, for many of us, brought our feelings about our own and other people's identity to the fore.

Grayson Perry, white, male, heterosexual, able bodied, English, southerner, baby boomer and member of the establishment takes a mischievous look at the nature of identity in his new show that will make you laugh, shudder, and reassess who you really are. It's one not to be missed!

Grayson Perry is an English contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene and for dissecting British "prejudices, fashions and foibles".

In 2003, he became famous as the first ceramic artist to win the Turner Prize and was awarded a CBE in 2014. In 2020 he became the first British Artist to win the Erasmus Prize since Henry Moore . Along with his art, Grayson has written and presented documentaries. The first one was for Channel 4 entitled Why Men Wear Frocks, an adaptation from the book, Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl in which he examined transvestism and masculinity in the 21st century. Grayson spoke candidly about his own experiences and the effect it has had on him and his family. The documentary received a Royal Television Society Award for Best Network Production.

In 2012 his C4 series, All in the Best Possible Taste received a BAFTA for Specialist Factional Television. Grayson's C4 programme Who Are You? led to the accompanying artwork from the series being housed in the National Portrait Gallery, a first for the Gallery. The programme was awarded Best Arts Programme at The Royal Television Society Programme Awards and Specialist Factual at the BAFTAs, that year Grayson was also awarded Documentary Presenter of the Year at The Grierson Awards.

In 2013 he delivered the BBC Reith Lectures, another first for him as the first artist to do so.

His publishing ranges from an autobiography The Descent of Man (2016) and a graphic novel Cycle of Violence (2012). Playing to the Gallery (2014) derived from The Reith Lectures along with his illustrated Sketchbooks (2016).Grayson took to Twitter to navigate post-Brexit Britain in his own inimitable style by inviting C4 viewers to help create his next major work - The two pots featured in the series Grayson Perry: What Britain Wants and also as apart of Grayson's most important British solo exhibition, 'The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever', which was held at the Serpentine Gallery in June 2017. In late 2017, Grayson won Best Documentary Presenter at The Grierson Awards for the third time following the broadcast of Grayson Perry: All Man for C4. Summer of 2018 saw Grayson co-ordinate the 250th Celebration of The Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. Along with fellow artists, Grayson handpicked over 1,300 works to make up the biggest, brightest and most colourful exhibition under the theme of Art Made Now. Rites of Passage, again for C4, was aired in 2018. This explored the ceremonies and rituals surrounding some of life's landmark events; Birth, Coming of Age, Marriage and Death. Them and Us, Grayson's first UK one man show, toured later that year discussing 'cultural divisions' within the world we live in today. He was invited to tour Australia late 2019 and early 2020.

Throughout the global pandemic, Grayson made it his mission to unleash creative collectively and unite the nation through art, turning the camera back on the viewer with the challenge: have a go yourself. Grayson's Art Club aired each week from his studio - taking the country with him as he created new art works throughout lockdown. The art created was displayed in a public exhibition, that chronicled the changing moods of Britain and provided a record of the historic times we're living through. The programme won the Arts and Presenter's Award at the 2021 RTS Programme Awards, shortly after it returned for a second series. Grayson Perry's Big American Road Trip, also aired in 2021, which saw him explore the changing landscape of Trump's America; from race to class and identity.

Grayson Perry said: "I can't wait to head back out on the road next autumn with my brand-new show - which is all about you! I will be visiting almost every corner of the country in my biggest tour yet. Don't be a stranger. See you there."

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What makes you, you? Is there a part deep inside of you that no one understands? Have you found your tribe or are you a unique human being? Or is it more complicated than that?

In the last few decades a combination of individualism, the internet and the culture war has, for many of us, brought our feelings about our own and other people’s identity to the fore. Grayson Perry, white, male, heterosexual, able bodied, English, southerner, baby boomer and member of the establishment takes a mischievous look at the nature of identity in his new show that will make you laugh, shudder, and reassess who you really are.

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In the last few decades a combination of individualism, the internet and the culture war has, for many of us, brought our feelings about our own and other people’s identity to the fore. Grayson Perry, white, male, heterosexual, able bodied, English, southerner, baby boomer and member of the establishment takes a mischievous look at the nature of identity in his new show that will make you laugh, shudder, and reassess who you really are.

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What makes you, you? Is there a part deep inside of you that no one understands? Have you found your tribe or are you a unique human being? Or is it more complicated than that? In the last few decades a combination of individualism, the internet and the culture war has, for many of us, brought our feelings about our own and other people’s identity to the fore. Grayson Perry , white, male, heterosexual, able bodied, English, southerner, baby boomer and member of the establishment takes a mischievous look at the nature of identity in his new show that will make you laugh, shudder, and reassess who you really are.

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Grayson Perry A Show All About You

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What makes you, you? Is there a part deep inside of you that no one understands? Have you found your tribe or are you a unique human being? Or is it more complicated than that?

In the last few decades a combination of individualism, the internet and the culture war has, for many of us, brought our feelings about our own and other people’s identity to the fore.

Grayson Perry, white, male, heterosexual, able bodied, English, southerner, baby boomer and member of the establishment takes a mischievous look at the nature of identity in his new show that will make you laugh, shudder, and reassess who you really are.

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Grayson Perry: Smash Hits review – English self-mockery without insight or depth

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh This is a show stuffed with clutter and haunted by Perry’s teddy bear, with works that are too flip to land any satirical punches

J ust once in his retrospective at the National Galleries of Scotland (Royal Scottish Academy), Grayson Perry seems to speak from the heart. In his nearly three-metre-long woodcut print Reclining Artist, he stretches out nude on the sofa, with long fingernails against a slender thigh, his penis dangling over saggy balls, and plump female breasts.

It is a synthesis of who he is and who he dreams of being: “a fantasy version of myself, neither fully male nor fully female”, as he notes in the caption. Yet if it is a fantasy, this 2017 vision is also the most authentic work of art in this entire assembly of Perry’s “Smash Hits”. Here he is, he can be no other. He looks you dead in the eye, serious and for once not breaking out into the blokey laugh that’s familiar to watchers of his TV shows.

Perry is a manifestly talented artist who can draw detailed, precise, complex images. But his love of clutter wrecks almost every work in this exhibition. Even in Reclining Artist, there is a manic array of symbolic objects, including his childhood teddy bear Alan Measles.

Wandering around the show, I started to feel sorry for poor Alan. Perry, as you can learn from his lengthy texts appended to every exhibit, constructed a private imaginary universe around this teddy when he was an unhappy child in 1960s Essex. It inhabits his art, like felt and fat haunt the sculptures of Josef Beuys – a mythological presence, whether in a recent bronze called Alan Healing the Wound in which he cradles Perry’s “inner child”, or posing as a knight, or being transported in a glass carriage on the back of Perry’s motorbike. Measles, who was given to Perry in the year he was born, is 63 now and surely deserves a rest.

Or at least, some privacy. This particular childhood icon is so overshared in Perry’s art – here he comes again, driving a racing car across a wasteland – that his symbolic power has long since evaporated. But then Perry doesn’t present his obsession with Alan Measles as a serious monomania. It is more like a self-conscious parody of one. Measles is a jokey, intensity-free totem in the endlessly ironic and embarrassed apology for an artist’s inner life that blares at you from all these pots, prints and tapestries.

It is all very English – as Perry is so painfully aware. One wall here features a collection of objects that people gave him as he toured England in his recent Channel 4 series Grayson Perry’s Full English . The random haul doesn’t communicate much about England, although I found a football fan’s flag bearing his late friend’s name moving. Scots may enjoy Perry’s own meditation on his national identity, a brown and yellow plate that parodies the clumsiness of early English slipware ceramics, decorated with a pair of gloves and the words “English Wanker”.

That apart, no explanation is offered for why an exhibition obsessed with Englishness is in the Scottish capital, or what Perry thinks makes England different from the other countries of the UK. Then again, clarity is not his forte – throwing out “ironic” cliches is. Comfort Blanket is a tapestry that names the things he associates with a good, inclusive – as opposed to a narrow, Brexity – Englishness: fish and chips, The Archers, Eric and Ernie, a nice cuppa. All of which a Brexiter might like, too.

As analyses of national identity go, it is not exactly George Orwell. I used to think Perry was a very clever man who wasn’t much of an artist: great at curating and commenting, not so good at making pots. His increasingly scattergun outpourings on English identity are, however, making me wonder about the cleverness. There is no insight to his recitals of English attributes. The Vanity of Small Differences updates Hogarth’s pictorial narrative The Rake’s Progress to the 21st century with vague, random references to technology and social media: Hogarth’s Tom Rakewell is now a tech billionaire (wow!) who dies in a road crash. But the busy, overelaborate tapestry scenes don’t land any satirical punches: they just get lost in whimsy and empty quotation. Other artists, such as David Hockney and Yinka Shonibare, have done much better modern versions of The Rake’s Progress.

Perry does understand the English middle class, though. He has become popular, famous and beloved by sharing its ambivalence towards art. There is a national prejudice against people who “take themselves too seriously”, especially artists. This exhibition is full of artworks that appeal to that suspicion by being flip. Perry constantly denies that he takes art seriously at all. He parodies modernism and even African religious art in pseudo-fetish sculptures he made for a show at the British Museum. It’s not offensive, just pointless: how silly that anyone should believe art can be salvational or possess magic powers! Any hint of romance has to be undermined by a joke. And yet, there is not much hilarity here. It’s all too bitter and twisted and … English.

Perry has chosen to be a certain kind of middle-class entertainer, throwing away his talent on the vanity of small amusements. The lack of passion and courage in so many of these works is depressing. Quoting and mocking, in an art that relentlessly avoids poetry or depth, he is the philistine’s Blake, the idiot’s intellectual and the artist modern Britain has chosen for its own.

This article was amended on 26 July 2023 to give the correct venue and organisation for the exhibition.

Grayson Perry: Smash Hits is at the National Galleries of Scotland (Royal Scottish Academy), Edinburgh, until 12 November

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Grayson Perry, The Vanity of Small Differences

Grayson Perry's 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 chart the 'class journey' made by young Tim Rakewell and include many of the characters, incidents and objects Grayson Perry encountered on his journeys and experiences throughout Sunderland, Tunbridge Wells and The Cotswolds for the television series 'All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry ', which 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.

Grayson Perry is a great chronicler of contemporary life, drawing us in with wit, affecting sentiment and nostalgia as well as, at times, fear and anger. In his work, Perry tackles subjects that are universally human: identity, gender, social status, sexuality, religion. Autobiographical references – to the artist’s childhood, his family and his transvestism – can be read in tandem with questions about décor and decorum, class and taste, and the status of the artist versus that of the artisan.

Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre London and British Council. Gift of the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery with the support of Channel 4 Television, the Art Fund and Sfumato Foundation with additional support from AlixPartners.

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Inspired by characters from Perry’s series of tapestries, each model is available as a full colour template. We suggest printing them at A4 or A3 on white paper or thin card about 160gsm.

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Grayson Perry: the newly knighted potter on the power of accessibility and why he’s making a musical

Ahead of a retrospective in edinburgh, the turner prize-winning artist, who inspired a nation of makers during the covid-19 pandemic, explains why he never wants to stop learning.

“I will always taunt that idea of exclusivity”; Grayson Perry’s new show at the Royal Scottish Academy will be his first major UK retrospective

Photo: Annar Bjorgli; courtesy National Museum of Norway

When Grayson Perry stepped up to accept the Turner Prize in 2003, he famously declared, with characteristic irony, that it was high time the award went to “a transvestite potter from Essex”. Now, ceramics are commonplace throughout the art world and his ornate vessels and plates—their surfaces often adorned with coruscating social comment and snipes at the art world—along with more recent forays into tapestry, prints and sculptures as well as his ever more elaborate outfits, have won Perry a high public profile and numerous more accolades. He was elected a Royal Academician in 2012, was the first visual artist to deliver the BBC’s prestigious Reith Lectures in 2013 and won the Erasmus Prize in 2021. Already the recipient of a CBE award, this year he received a knighthood for services to the arts. Perry also has a high public profile for making and presenting award-winning television documentaries on subjects such as masculinity, identity, taste and Englishness, while his Grayson’s Art Club television series attracted huge audiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. He has had retrospective exhibitions over the years in Amsterdam, Oslo and Australia, and this summer the National Galleries of Scotland has organised Perry's first major UK retrospective exhibition—and the largest ever of his work—which opens at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.

Grayson Perry's woodblock print Sponsored by You (2019) © Grayson Perry.; Courtesy the artist; Paragon. Contemporary Editions Ltd and Victoria Miro; Photo: Jack Hems

The Art Newspaper: The show spans your career, from your first work, a 1983 ceramic plate called Kinky Sex , to the most recent, Sir Pervert , made this year. Is the latter a comment on your recent knighthood?

Grayson Perry: I made a riposte to that first work because as I collect yet another accolade, I always think: have they actually looked at my work? One of my great tactical triumphs has been that, from that very first plate, I led with my secret. All my early work was about my various perversions and lusts and cross-dressing and everything. It was there from the centre. And every time I’m welcomed into yet another higher echelon of the establishment I just think, yeah, it worked!

Did you ever consider refusing this ultimate establishment acknowledgment?

No! When I got the CBE, which was about 10 years ago, I remember saying to [my daughter] Flo, do you think I should accept it? And she said, “Don’t be so affected, that’s not you, Dad.” I scanned my own reactions to it, and I found it amusing. With the knighthood, I only ever use it on texts to my closest friends. I just sign off, Sir G. But I’d never use it in any other context whatsoever. I’m going to pick it up in a few weeks’ time.

As I collect yet another accolade, I always think: have they actually looked at my work?

What are you going to wear?

I’ve been designing madly. My reference points are Carolean. I thought, let’s reference a previous [King] Charles. So I’ve gone back to that period of women’s dress: big, taffeta-billowy and quite matronly, because I have a matronly figure now.

As well as winning the Turner Prize, the Erasmus Prize and being elected a Royal Academician, you have also won several television awards. Do you feel that your success as a TV presenter has affected your art-world reputation?

I called my Serpentine Gallery show The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! because of that. I will always taunt that idea of exclusivity and the desperate need of the art world to hide behind performative seriousness. One of my great campaigns is about accessibility, but not in some kind of community, huggy kind of way. There’s some great art and you don’t need an MA to understand it. This weird idea that you have to use a certain vocabulary to appear like an adult in the art world; it’s pompous, pretentious and undignified. I think you can be just as powerful and complex and use accessible language and talk in accessible terms. Often, I think the art world gives too much power to writers—he says to a writer!

Cocktail Party (1989): while Perry made his name as a ceramicist, now, he says, “I probably spend a third of the time making pots”

© Grayson Perry. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

Has making and presenting television programmes had an impact on the kind of art you make?

My TV stuff took me into making work more outside of myself because up until 2000, when I had therapy, I think my work was really self-absorbed and it was all about me. Then I really just gorged on it doing therapy and it gave me permission to say ‘OK, now I’m going make work about class and society’. And so although all my work is self-portraiture to a certain extent, now it’s also about other things. I look at my early work now and it does seem a little bit obscurantist and self-obsessed. But I think that’s true of any young person, so I’m quite compassionate towards it. It’s a young person’s art.

Is clay still your core medium? Lately, you seem to have diversified into textiles, metal sculpture, prints.

If I think about the last ten things I made, maybe half of them were pots. But in terms of man hours in the year, I probably spend a third of the time making pots. But then I also do sculptures, which tend to start with ceramic; if I make a bronze I start it with ceramic because that’s the material I know how to work with. But tapestries and prints are also important to me. For my next show at the Wallace Collection, in a couple of years’ time, I’m doing a tiled cabinet and I’ll also probably do a carpet.

In the tapestry The Upper Class at Bay ( 2012), a “new-money” couple—inspired by Thomas Gainsborough’s portrait, Mr and Mrs Andrews (around 1750)—survey a stag representing the dying, land-owning breed

Even though your tapestries are machine made, I still see you as very much a maker.

Totally. It’s about the relationship with craft and materials and the covetability of the object. I use it as a platform also to critique conceptual art, in that if I want to do performance, I’ll do it in the fucking Albert Hall, mate! I’m not going to do bad theatre in the back room of an art gallery. And if I’m going to do TV, I’m not going to make a boring 28-minute video that’s badly edited and show it in a white box where you have to sit on an uncomfortable bench; I’m going to make it for the people sitting at home on their sofas on Channel 4. This is very much what I’ve always done. When I started making pots, I didn’t make ceramic sculptures, I made pots. And when I do a print, I want it to look like a map or something we all know already, where the actual genre is not up for grabs. Singing is my latest thing: I’m making a musical. It’s going to be dead traditional. I’ve been working on it for three years with Richard Thomas, who did Jerry Springer: the Opera .

What’s the subject of your musical?

We’re making Grayson Perry: the Musical. It’s my life as a musical, but heavily fictionalised so we could make a good, fun story. And we’ve written 14 or 15 songs already. I think it’s going to open in Birmingham in 2025.

What is it that makes you want to try out new things all the time? Most people would be quite happy just to be a successful artist.

I love learning. There’s a real energy in that for me; it’s just the novelty of it. Singing is a perfect example. I started just before lockdown, and it was really hard at the beginning. Then you reach a little platform and it’s like, ‘Oh, I can do this now!’ And then you reach another little platform and it’s exciting. It’s a whole new world and you’re learning all the time. It’s the same with the musical: when we started I was reading books about how you write a musical and the history of musicals and gossip about musicals, and I was going to see musicals because I just love learning about stuff—it’s so enthusing.

Perry drove the colourful Kenilworth AM1 (2010)—which was custom-built by motorbike maker Harley-Davidson—on a performance-art tour of Bavaria, accompanied by Alan Measles, his trusty teddy bear © Grayson Perry. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro; Photo: Angus Mill

Born: 1960 Chelmsford, Essex

Education: 1982 BA, Portsmouth College of Art and Design

Major shows: 2002 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; 2006 Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; 2011 British Museum, London; 2015 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; 2017 Serpentine Galleries, London;  2020 Holburne Museum, Bath; 2022 National Museum, Oslo

Represented by: Victoria Miro Gallery

• Grayson Perry: Smash Hits , National (Royal Scottish Academy), Edinburgh, 22 July-12 November

Clarification (18 July): this story was amended to make it clear that the retrospective is organised by National Galleries for Scotland but takes place in the Royal Scottish Academy building