The 62-year-old Essex-born artist, who calls himself a 'tranny potter', has been made a Knight Bachelor for services to the arts.
“I think it’s very cool that they’ve given it to me because you know, I could be a liability.” He also explained his knighthood is “extra special” as him being named in the New Year’s Honours List is about his achievements, not class. However, he said the knighthood will not stop him from being a “rebel”.
The Essex-born artist has received a knighthood from King Charles.
In Essex, a new sculpture by the Chelmsford artist was unveiled in Barking on November 30. Sir Grayson won the Turner Prize in 2003 after being nominated for the piece Claire’s Coming Out Dress and a collection of vases depicting the dark recesses of life. His recent hit TV series Grayson’s Art Club was launched with his wife Philippa Perry, a trained artist but best known as a psychotherapist, columnist and author, in April 2020 during the pandemic. In 2014, he became a CBE after an investiture by the then Prince of Wales, now King. Sir Grayson told his Twitter followers, while posting a picture of himself wearing a medieval knight costume, that “it seems the news is out and I’m not quite ready”. Sir Grayson Perry has been awarded a knighthood as part of the 2023 New Year Honours list, but says he was ‘not quite ready’ for the news.
The artist and broadcaster Grayson Perry who has been made a Knight Bachelor for services to the arts.
The 62-year-old Essex-born artist, who calls himself a 'tranny potter', said he is not 'necessarily a smooth fit'. Grayson Perry (Yui Mok/PA) ...
In his 2016 Channel 4 programme Grayson Perry: All Man, the dress-wearing artist put himself in three ultra-male worlds to see what their masculinity explained about the changing lives and expectations of men in modern Britain. Perry toured the country for the programme and the first place he visited was Sunderland, producing two textile pieces based on places and characters he found in the city – The Adoration Of The Cage Fighters and The Agony In The Car Park. Born in 1960 in Chelmsford, Sir Grayson began his career at Braintree College of Further Education and then at Portsmouth Polytechnic, where he studied fine art.