Welcome to the Grayson Perry Art Club blog. This is your space where you can meet other members and share your thoughts, ideas and work.

The club has been set up for you to talk about all aspects of art, from how to get started, what materials to use, how to become more confident in your creative abilities and how to develop as an artist. The different elements of art may be broken down into:

* Drawing and painting

* Sculpture

* Photography

* Performance

* Printmaking

* Mixed media

You can also use this space to discuss Grayson’s work and his exhibitions. You might want to offer your own opinion on his book “The Descent of Man” or his latest touring exhibition “All Man”. You might have visited one of his exhibitions and would like to tell us about it. You could even have taken part in one of his workshops or events. Whatever it is, you’re very welcome.*

The Art Club was created by Grayson Perry.

Grayson is a Turner Prize winning artist and author. The club is for making art, thinking about art and talking about art.

Art can be painting, drawing, sculpture, writing, music, film or anything else you can think of that is creative!

The ideas we come up with in the club will be used to make work – so think carefully when you comment.

The Art Club is a place where you can think openly and honestly about what art means to you. This might be difficult to do in front of your friends or family because they may not share your opinions or understand the way you see things.

In the club we all have different opinions and ideas – and we respect them all! We value every individual’s contribution and we hope you do too.

We’re all here to learn and enjoy ourselves so please take part in the activities as much as possible. You could create some of your own too if you want to!

We also want to encourage everyone to meet new people who love art as much as they do. We’ll be holding events in galleries and other venues so we can all get together, meet face-to-face and talk about the things that interest us most – our work

The Art Club is a group of artists who work in any medium, who meet every two weeks to create art collaboratively. The format is simple: each session, there’s an artist’s prompt, often an image or a theme, and today each member will be creating a new piece based on that prompt. These sessions are designed to foster creativity by getting artists out of their comfort zones, helping them experiment with new tools, processes, and materials. It’s also a great way to learn from the experience of other artists.

The Art Club is free and open to all artists who want to participate. There are no dues or fees; you only have to bring your imagination and your willingness to be playful and try something new.

The Art Club meets every other Saturday at noon in the Grayson Perry studios in London. Sessions last about three hours. To find out more about the club, go here: [http://graysonperryartclub.blogspot.com/p/about-us_27.html]

We’re excited for you to join us!

Grayson Perry’s Art Club is a group of artists that meet once a month in London. The members are invited to share their creative experience and help each other develop as artists and to create art work.

Grayson Perry, the artist, established the club in 2003. He wanted to create an environment where artists can talk freely about their work, share ideas and inspire each other, in order to develop themselves as artists. The club meets for three days in London once a month and then the day includes visiting art galleries, museums or studios where the members spend a day working together.

Perry has had exhibitions at many places such as Tate Britain gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Hayward Gallery and Saatchi Gallery. He has been given commissions by Brighton Museum and Art Gallery and various British galleries to create works of art that are shown in Britain. He has won many awards including the Turner Prize (2004) and has also written books about contemporary art including “The Descent of Man”, which he wrote with Jake Chapman in 2002.

The club was first founded with just 4 members but now it has around 100 members from all over the world. The club includes artists from different backgrounds including painters, sculptors, print makers and performance artists.

There are so many different types of art out there that it can all seem a bit overwhelming to new members, some people have a very specific idea of what they want to make and others don’t really know at all what their style is.

What vision do I want to portray with my work? Do I just want to create for me, for profit or for a portfolio? Can I tickle the brains of those who see my art? Do I want to try and get it published in a magazine, or perhaps sell it? What about selling prints, how does that work? Should I sell my pieces online or try and get into galleries? Will I need to get a degree in Fine Art?

The questions go on and on! This blog will hopefully help answer some of these questions and find ways to help people realise their goals.

Art is what I do and I am who I am because of my family, background and education.

I was born in 1955 in Uckfield Surrey where my father, who was a builder, lived-in as a caretaker in the local school. My mother ran a cafe on the site of the school that included living quarters for her and my father.

This community and its possibilities shaped me: it taught me to work with my hands, to ask questions, to be aware of the world around me and to be honest about my thoughts and feelings.

The sense of community I felt in Uckfield has stayed with me and has been important in forming the Grayson Perry identity. It is also visible in my art as it is concerned with community, society and history.

In the United States, we have been taught that all people are equal, and this is a good idea, but sometimes it stops us from knowing one another.

In the United States, we are taught to treat everyone the same. We do not know whether to expect a man to be like a woman or a woman like a man. No differences are allowed. This is also part of our problem with understanding each other.

In the United States, we have abolished slavery, but now we must understand that many people work because they choose to work, not because they have been enslaved by others.

In the United States, we believe in freedom of speech as long as it does not criticize our nation or its leaders. We have many ways of making people stop criticizing us. Some of them are legal and some are not legal but still common.

When I was a child in England, I was taught that men and women were different but equal, and I believed it. I thought that men were stronger than women and that women were smarter than men, but both genders were valuable and important in their own way.

When I grew up and moved to America, I found that most people did not believe this about men and women. They did not think that women were smarter