Class. Britain is obsessed with it. That divisive taboo, the weird networks of have-mores and have-lesses. Art in Britain often explores this obsession, frequently focussing on the plight of the working-class family, or the perils of class mobility. Author Javaad Alipoor summarises this attitude as the arts world seeing working-class people as a problem to […]
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry: ‘The Vanity of Small Differences’
Grayson Perry’s series of six tapestries, named ‘The Vanity of Small Differences’, has been touring round the UK since 2012. Considering the distinctive lack of an edgy art scene in Exeter, I was elated to discover that the latest exhibition would be a stone’s throw away, in Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery, and so I ventured off with […]