My Son Grayson Dresses As a Woman to Be Like Me so Why Is He Telling Lies About His Childhood?
Mail on Sunday › February 20, 2006
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When artist Grayson Perry rose to accept the coveted Pounds 20,000 Turner Prize in December 2003 it should have been his mother's proudest moment. Instead, the lavish ceremony left her humiliated and angry.
It was not the fact that her son had shocked Britain when he stood up on live television as his transvestite alter-ego, Claire, wearing a bizarre purple satin party frock with a green bow and embroidered with rabbits.See the full content of this document
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My Son Grayson Dresses As a Woman to Be Like Me so Why Is He Telling Lies About His Childhood?
What so upset Jean Dines, a 69-year-old great-grandmother, was that she was watching the ceremony at home after her estranged son had repeatedly referred to his loveless family life and brutal, stupid parents, both in interviews and in his art.
Indeed, even during his Turner acceptance speech he alluded to the Philip Larkin poem, This Be The Verse, with its famous opening line about the disastrous effects of parents ...See the full content of this document
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