Grayson Perry brings contemporary life to Channel 4

Following the BAFTA win for All In the Best Possible Taste Channel 4 have announced artist Grayson Perry is currently filming a new arts series for Channel 4 to be broadcast in 2014.

The three-part series will chronicle the creation of a series of works of art featuring a range of Britons from across the UK, all of whom embody a particularly potent aspect of contemporary British identity.

It follows Perry’s BAFTA Award-winning All In the Best Possible Taste from last year which explored British tastes and used Perry’s discoveries as inspiration for a work of art – The Vanity of Small Differences, a narrative series of six tapestries which was recently acquired for the nation.

The new series has been entitled Grayson Perry: Who Are You? – although it may change at a later date.

Greenlit by Tabitha Jackson, Commissioning Editor of Arts at the broadcaster says, “”Grayson’s skill is not just as an artist, and now a BAFTA-award winning television presenter, but as an artist-anthropologist. This gives us a unique opportunity to explore the texture of contemporary life and to understand it in a different way. Identity is a complex subject, as was Taste, and this new series promises to be as enlightening, entertaining and as culturally relevant.”

Last year Grayson Perry signed a two-year exclusive deal with Channel 4. Last night the network won four BAFTA awards.