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The Essex House Tapestries: Life Of Julie Cope

Grayson Perry, 2015

Grayson Perry, The Essex House Tapestries, 2015, Crafts Council, Art Funded 2016. Crafts Council Collection: 2016.19. Purchase supported by Art Fund (with a contribution from The Wolfson Foundation) and a donation from Maylis and James Grand.
Grayson Perry, Life Of Julie Cope, 2015, Crafts Council, Art Funded 2016
Courtesy the Artist, Paragon Press and Victoria Miro, London. © Grayson Perry

These two tapestries tell the life story of Julie Cope, a fictional character created by the artist Grayson Perry.

These two tapestries tell the life story of Julie Cope, a fictional character created by the artist Grayson Perry. The first one, titled In its Familiarity Golden, portrays Julie's early years from birth to marriage. Her later years, second marriage and death in a motorbike accident are depicted in A Perfect Match.

The tapestries were created for a house in Essex designed by Perry for the Living Architecture project. The first edition of the work now hangs in the house.

Grayson Perry trained as an artist at Portsmouth Polytechnic and became known for his large ceramic pots covered in irreverent texts and drawings. He won the Turner Prize in 2003 and became a Royal Academician in 2011. The Crafts Council Collection is the first public collection in the world to acquire any work from this series.

This work was acquired with assistance from the Wolfson Foundation.

More information

Title of artwork, date

The Essex House Tapestries: Life Of Julie Cope, 2015

Date supported

2015

Medium and material

Textiles, tapestry

Grant

60000

Total cost

95200

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