Glazed ceramic with a unique AI generated image. Created by Grayson Perry and published by the Wallace Collection Stamped on the reverse.
This striking 2025 work by Grayson Perry pairs an AI-generated central image with a handcrafted black-glazed ceramic frame adorned with baroque-style relief figures, staging a deliberate collision between digital fabrication and artisanal tradition. The central figure, dressed in an elaborate orange and white costume crowned by a sunflower headdress against a vivid blue sky, embodies Perry's enduring preoccupation with identity and self-fashioning. The inscription at the frame's base — I KNOW WHO I AM — transforms the object into a declaration, fusing decorative exuberance with pointed conceptual inquiry.
Grayson Perry (UK, 1960) is a celebrated contemporary artist and Turner Prize winner known for his provocative ceramics, tapestries, and multimedia works. Often exploring themes of identity, gender, and societal norms, Perry uses humor and craftsmanship to challenge perceptions. His alter ego, Claire, features prominently in his artistic narrative.
Mixed MediaMixed media refers to artwork that incorporates more than one medium within a single piece. Unlike multimedia art, which combines distinct forms of visual art and often includes elements like sound, video, or digital media, mixed media focuses on combining traditional art materials, such as paint, ink, and collage. Mixed media art allows artists to achieve a wide range of effects and textures by layering and blending different materials.
Glazed ceramic with a unique AI generated image. Created by Grayson Perry and published by the Wallace Collection Stamped on the reverse.
This striking 2025 work by Grayson Perry pairs an AI-generated central image with a handcrafted black-glazed ceramic frame adorned with baroque-style relief figures, staging a deliberate collision between digital fabrication and artisanal tradition. The central figure, dressed in an elaborate orange and white costume crowned by a sunflower headdress against a vivid blue sky, embodies Perry's enduring preoccupation with identity and self-fashioning. The inscription at the frame's base — I KNOW WHO I AM — transforms the object into a declaration, fusing decorative exuberance with pointed conceptual inquiry.
Grayson Perry (UK, 1960) is a celebrated contemporary artist and Turner Prize winner known for his provocative ceramics, tapestries, and multimedia works. Often exploring themes of identity, gender, and societal norms, Perry uses humor and craftsmanship to challenge perceptions. His alter ego, Claire, features prominently in his artistic narrative.
Art is not some fun add-on to life.
- Grayson Perry
Renowned for his unorthodox expression, Grayson Perry is an artist whose most notable works include printed tapestries and ceramic vases that explore both historical and contemporary themes, as well as featuring autobiographical references to his own life, and that of his transvestite alter-ego, Claire. Among Perry’s most acclaimed works is Aspects of Myself, a ceramic vessel featuring several different figures, some altogether innocent, and others - such as a bound and gagged woman - more sinister; Perry has confirmed that these figures depict various different aspects of his own personality. In creating his ceramic works, Perry refers to the ceramic traditions of folk art and Greek pottery while using the traditional coiling method to create the final shape, he then fires in a kiln several times in order to transfer the image and finish with a lustre glaze.
Sometimes referred to as Conceptualism, this is an art form where the idea(s) or concept(s) behind the work take precedence over material concerns and traditional aesthetics. Many conceptual artworks can be created by anyone simply by following written instructions. The concept or idea is the most essential aspect of the artwork.