Created and displayed as part of the major Grayson Perry exhibition at the British Museum in 2011, The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman is a sculpture of an iron ship, sailing into the afterlife. This wonderful catalogue, created to accompany the award-winning exhibition draws on such intriguing and diverse themes as pilgrimage, shamanism and tomb guardians.
Grayson Perry uses the seductive qualities of ceramics, tapestry, metalwork and other art forms to make stealthy comments about societal injustices and hypocrisies, and to explore a variety of historical and contemporary themes. Perry is a great chronicler of contemporary life, drawing us in with wit, affecting sentiment and nostalgia as well as fear and anger. Autobiographical references can be read in tandem with debates about décor and decorum and the status of the artist versus that of the artisan, debates which Perry turns on their head. He has had major solo exhibitions at Mudam, Luxembourg (2008), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2007), Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2006), Barbican Art Gallery, London (2002) and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2002). He has also curated two exhibitions - Unpopular Culture, de la Warr Pavilion (2008) and The Charms of Lincolnshire, The Collection, Lincoln (2006).
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