Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now featuring Grayson Perry and Stephen Willats at the British Museum Grayson Perry at the Sydney Opera House in his ‘nappy dress’. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! reviewed by Rachel Campbell-Johnston in The Times

Curriculum Links Geography: Trade links, digital mapping, ordinance survey maps, detailed sketching of maps. History: Create maps inspired by your chosen ancient civilisation topic e.g. an Anglo Saxon settlement or village. Maths: Pictorial representations, 2D / 3D shapes. PSHE: Collaboration, Peer Discussion. English: Leaflets, posters Time This pathway takes 6 weeks, with an hour per week. Shorten or lengthen the suggested pathway according to time and experience. Follow the stages in green for a shorter pathway or less complex journey.Sketch books are the most talismanic objects in my artistic life. I carry them around with me most of the time.'

The tapestries were inspired by Perry’s trips to three regions in England where he met different groups considered to be working class, middle class and upper class. His interviews, photographs, notes and sketchbook drawings of his journey helped him to investigate the tastes of different social circles. The artist'sjourneys through Sunderland, Tunbridge Wells and The Cotswolds in England were documented in the television series All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry, which wasfirst aired on Channel 4 in June 2012. Launching at 8pm on 27 April 2020, the series will offer master classes, top tips and inspiration. Each episode of Art Club will be themed, and Grayson is asking members of the public to send in artwork responding to each theme. Stephen Willats and Grayson Perry feature in Do I Have to Draw You a Picture? at Heong Gallery, CambridgeThis comprehensive exhibition, which encompassed more than eighty works, was developed in close collaboration with the artist and Victoria Miro gallery. Instead of being presented chronologically, the show offered a journey through the main themes of Perry’s provocative art, including masculinity, sexuality, class, religion, politics and identity. Grayson Perry | Smash Hits displayed subversive pots, intricate prints, elaborate sculptures, and huge, captivating tapestries – all imbued with Perry’s sharp wit and social commentary. Held at the Royal Scottish Academy, the exhibition (22 July–12 November 2023) will encompass more than 80 works from across his career. An intelligent evening (2 November 2017, sold out) of laughs, discussion, insight and costume changes in this one-off show at the London Palladium.

The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, an elaborate, richly decorated cast-iron coffin-ship, will be displayed alongside the striking 2,400-year-old Nereid Monument from 27 August 2020. Now in his mid-50s, he is in possession of a certain rapscallion charm. As Claire, however, he confides: “I was never a sex bomb.” Originally modelled on female news anchors, with Princess Diana and Camilla Parker-Bowles thrown into the mix, the Claire of the past was a tad mumsy in her stiff pencil skirts, prudent and modestly dressed. Perry has always worked with traditional media; ceramics, cast iron, bronze, printmaking and tapestry. He is interested in how each historic category of object accrues over time intellectual and emotional baggage. Tapestry is the art form of grand houses: depicting classical myths, historical and religious scenes and epic battles. In this series of works Perry plays with idea of using this ancient allegorical art to elevate the commonplace dramas of modern British life. The process of creating the works was documented in last year’s Channel 4 documentary, All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry. The touring exhibition (19 September 2021–30 January 2022) developed by the Holburne Museum in Bath, is the first to celebrate Grayson Perry’s earliest forays into the art world and re-introduces the works he made between 1982 and 1994.For decades, Perry worked in relative anonymity. As a young squatting artist, he couldn’t even afford central heating. That is, until he won the Turner prize in 2003. He is now a beloved public figure, appealing equally to the intellectual elite and television-consuming masses. I have drawn my own letters using pen and pencil inspired by objects I have chosen around me. I can reflect upon why my letters have a meaning to me.