Sir Grayson Perry announces new tour for 2025

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Are You Good? Asks if it’s time to update what is a virtue and what is a sin.

SALT Staff Writer

Sir Grayson Perry, will be embarking on a national tour this autumn. Are You Good? sees the internationally acclaimed artist, writer and TV star travelling the country, exploring whether we are as virtuous as we think.

Winning the prestigious Turner Prize in 2003, Perry has been a member of the Royal Academy of Arts since 2012. His work features a wide variety of techniques and materials: tapestries, ceramics, large woodcuts, cast-iron sculptures, prints, dresses, and even a complete house. He

“’Are you Good?’ is question that I think is fundamental to our humanity,” he said. “In this show I will be helping you, the audience, find out if you really are thoroughly good or maybe quite evil, but in a fun way.

“I always start out with the assumption that people are born good and then life happens. So, let’s pull back the curtain and see where your morals truly lie. Are you as virtuous as you think? With lots of audience participation (don’t worry, no one leaves unscathed) and a few silly songs we’ll have an entertaining evening and come out with our core values completely in tatters. Is it more important to be good or to be right?”

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Perry achieved international success with a number of big exhibitions, starting with Guerilla Tactics at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 2002. The Most Popular Exhibition Ever! travelled around the world from 2015 to 2017. Then, in 2020, the Holburne Museumin Bath organised a major retrospective on Perry, called The Pre-Therapy Years.

One of his best-known works is the series of tapestries The Vanity of Small Differences (2012), first shown at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London. His documentary series, All In the Best Possible Taste, won a BAFTA in 2013 and chronicled the making of these works. He also won a BAFTA for exploring different forms of identity in his documentary series Who Are You? In 2014, which was accompanied by an exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery in London.

The documentary series All Man (2016) explores masculinity and gender stereotyping, which were also the subject of his book The Descent of Man. With the television programme Grayson’s Art Club (2020-2021), Perry demonstrated in unique fashion the uniting power of art during the lockdowns in the United Kingdom.

Now he takes his fascination with people and behaviour on the road, with this landmark new stage show.