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Grayson's Art Club
Grayson's Art Club is a Channel 4 television documentary series focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown. It was hosted by artist Grayson Perry and his wife Philippa Perry. Its first broadcast was during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, between 27 April and 1 June 2020.
In the context of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting lockdown measures, Perry asked viewers to submit artworks on a given theme each week. Perry selected several pieces each week to be part of an exhibition to be held after the lockdown ended, and spoke via video link to the creators. Both Perry and his wife were also filmed using mainly static cameras placed around the studio making artworks for the exhibition. In addition, Perry conducted remote interviews with artists including Maggi Hambling, Antony Gormley, and The Singh Twins, and with celebrities with artistic hobbies, including Noel Fielding, Jessica Hynes, and Jim Moir.
Pieces from the celebrities and professional artists were also to be included in the exhibition, which was to be held at Manchester Art Gallery from 25 November 2020 – 18 April 2021. A further exhibition was held at Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham in 2023.
By 22 May 2020, part-way through the series, the programme had already received over 10,000 artwork submissions. The first series had over a million viewers a week.
The music for the series was by Alexander Parsons and is available to buy in digital formats only.
Writing about the first series in The Guardian, Claire Armitstead noted "Grayson's Art Club was conceived as a quickfire reaction to the pandemic, with Grayson repeatedly emphasising the creative potential of boredom and confinement. Perry said of the art 'We're saying the finished thing doesn't have to be good, but the process has to be genuine. And it has to be heartfelt and enjoyable. We're not saying make art like a professional, we're saying get stuck in and lose yourself a while in it ... I am trying to democratise art, but I'm not saying it means a drop in quality. It just means upping the accessibility and entertainment. Entertainment and humour are often denigrated, but they take just as much skill as the so-called intellectual level of high culture'."
Series 1 comprised six one-hour weekly episodes:
These six episodes were followed on 4 December 2020 by a one-hour follow-up episode, Grayson's Art Club: The Exhibition, featuring the post-lockdown preparations for the exhibition of the selected Art Club works at Manchester Art Gallery. The preparations were interrupted by the imposing of the second lockdown on 5 November 2020, which was lifted on 2 December. The date of the exhibition has not yet been settled due to the ongoing nature of the pandemic.
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Grayson's Art Club
Grayson's Art Club is a Channel 4 television documentary series focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown. It was hosted by artist Grayson Perry and his wife Philippa Perry. Its first broadcast was during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, between 27 April and 1 June 2020.
In the context of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting lockdown measures, Perry asked viewers to submit artworks on a given theme each week. Perry selected several pieces each week to be part of an exhibition to be held after the lockdown ended, and spoke via video link to the creators. Both Perry and his wife were also filmed using mainly static cameras placed around the studio making artworks for the exhibition. In addition, Perry conducted remote interviews with artists including Maggi Hambling, Antony Gormley, and The Singh Twins, and with celebrities with artistic hobbies, including Noel Fielding, Jessica Hynes, and Jim Moir.
Pieces from the celebrities and professional artists were also to be included in the exhibition, which was to be held at Manchester Art Gallery from 25 November 2020 – 18 April 2021. A further exhibition was held at Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham in 2023.
By 22 May 2020, part-way through the series, the programme had already received over 10,000 artwork submissions. The first series had over a million viewers a week.
The music for the series was by Alexander Parsons and is available to buy in digital formats only.
Writing about the first series in The Guardian, Claire Armitstead noted "Grayson's Art Club was conceived as a quickfire reaction to the pandemic, with Grayson repeatedly emphasising the creative potential of boredom and confinement. Perry said of the art 'We're saying the finished thing doesn't have to be good, but the process has to be genuine. And it has to be heartfelt and enjoyable. We're not saying make art like a professional, we're saying get stuck in and lose yourself a while in it ... I am trying to democratise art, but I'm not saying it means a drop in quality. It just means upping the accessibility and entertainment. Entertainment and humour are often denigrated, but they take just as much skill as the so-called intellectual level of high culture'."
Series 1 comprised six one-hour weekly episodes:
These six episodes were followed on 4 December 2020 by a one-hour follow-up episode, Grayson's Art Club: The Exhibition, featuring the post-lockdown preparations for the exhibition of the selected Art Club works at Manchester Art Gallery. The preparations were interrupted by the imposing of the second lockdown on 5 November 2020, which was lifted on 2 December. The date of the exhibition has not yet been settled due to the ongoing nature of the pandemic.