Grayson Perry, The Vanity of Small Differences
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THE EXPULSION FROM NUMBER 8 EDEN CLOSE 2012 Grayson Perry (1960 – ) P8399 © The Artist 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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THE UPPER CLASS AT BAY 2012 Grayson Perry (1960 – ) P8401 © The Artist 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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THE ADORATION OF THE CAGE FIGHTERS 2012 Grayson Perry (1960 – ) P8397 © The Artist 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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THE AGONY IN THE CAR PARK 2012 Grayson Perry (1960 – ) P8398 © The Artist 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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#LAMENTATION Grayson Perry (1960 – ) P8402 © The Artist Gift of the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery with the support of Channel 4 Televsion and the Art Fund, and additional support from AlixPartners
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THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE VIRGIN DEAL 2012 Grayson Perry (1960 – ) P8400 © The Artist 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.
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, measuring 2m x 4m each, chart the 'class journey' made by young Tim Rakewell and include many of the characters, incidents and objects Grayson Perry encountered on journeys through Sunderland, Tunbridge Wells and The Cotswolds for the television series 'All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry'. The television programmes were 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.
The Vanity of Small Differences is jointly owned by the British Council Collection and the Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London. 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 Alix Partners.
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Contemporary
Existing or coming into being at the same period; of today or of the present. The term that designates art being made today.