Perry makes ceramic pots, prints, hand-stitched quilts, and outrageous dress designs. He is best known for his pots. He says, ‘I like my ceramics because they’re wobbly and handmade and not massproduced.’

Perry’s urns are made with a complex process: their surfaces richly textured from designs marked into the clay, followed by intricately complicated glazing and photo-transfer techniques.
Perry also makes ceramic plates, prints, hand-stitched quilts, and outrageous dress designs

When he’s working he is Grayson, but when he is at a party or appearing in public he is Claire

Claire is the alter ego of Basildon-born Perry who is 43, six foot tall, and married with a daughter - and makes regular appearances at art scene parties. He says, “Claire is not a real person; it's me in a frock. All she does is swan about, look at herself in the mirror and primp, and go to parties, smile and have a nice time.
She does not DO anything - she doesn't even make a bit of toast. Claire doesn't make any pots.
“You can’t put on a dress and swan about in public and complain when you get attention. It doesn’t bother me. It’s a handy tool when I need it. I might be ‘the tranny potter’ but at least it’s a brand.”
He wore a frock to Buckingham Palace and met the Queen: "I don't think she could believe her eyes when she saw me. The Queen's eyes almost popped out of her head. Never before had she come face-to-face at Buckingham
Palace with a drag queen.”

Grayson Perry often uses found images to create a mood or a tension as here in Barbaric Splendour 2003

Print for a Politician 2005 Engraving