Work of artist Grayson Perry to go on display in Hereford

An exhibition of Grayson Perry artworks will open in Hereford this weekend.

Featuring six 2 x 4 metre tapestries, the Vanity of Small Differences exhibition opens at the Broad Street museum on Saturday and runs until Saturday 18 December. The Hereford event follows in the footsteps of successful exhibitions in London and in galleries throughout the world. The tapestries are full of images and stories of class, identity and taste, inspired by William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress.

A multi-award-winning artist, Grayson Perry has featured in a number of television programmes on the BBC and Channel 4, including Grayson’s Art Club, which aired during the Covid lockdown. His books include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl and The Descent of Man.

In the series Perry goes on "a safari amongst the taste tribes of Britain", to gather inspiration for his artwork, literally weaving the characters he meets into a narrative, with an attention to the minutiae of contemporary taste every bit as acute as that in Hogarth’s 18th century paintings.

Artwork by local people will also feature as part of the wider exhibition.

Visitors to the museum will be able to walk off the street into the exhibition without having booked in advance. Opening hours are 10-4pm, Monday-Saturdays. Entrance fees are £5 for adults; under 18s and students with ID are welcome free of charge.