A self-styled working-class Essex boy who has spent most of his life in the middle-class world of modern art, Perry made for a likeable and thoughtful interlocutor – Theroux-like in his naive questioning, but with an artist’s penetrating eye for detail.
A hugely promising start. His tapestries are ornate invitations for us to stamp out our snobbery. His programme: a beautifully stitched living portrait of a class, a city and an artist.
...artist and all-round dude Grayson Perry has been touring the land, observing the British population… His insights are direct and without pretension. Thoroughly refreshing."
The tapestries… are of course brilliant but - perhaps more surprisingly - so is the television series. Grayson is an absolutely superb interviewer… Grayson's style is so different it is almost revolutionary.