Kit Grover Christmas Gift Guide: Part 1 of 3

KIT GROVER CHRISTMAS GIFTS:

Damien Hirst
For the Love of God, 2007
Anamorphic cup and saucer £15
Available at Other Criteria / Tate











Anthea Hamilton
Limited edition, 2012
Fan for House of Voltaire £60
Culture Label



















Kit Grover
A1 bag £29.99
Kit Grover / Culture Label





















Grayson Perry
Table mat set £360
Yoox

Damien Hirst
I am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds, 2006
Bone china plate £22.50
Other Criteria

Grayson Perry reliquaries

A box of smashed pottery has arrived! While strongly resisting the urge to try and put the pots back together, we are starting to make some more Grayson Perry reliquaries.


Grayson Perry: "I think that the way we look at art comes from religion. We go to special buildings to stare at significant and precious things. We feel it is good for us. Tate Modern is a 21st century cathedral. Artists are its saints and holy fools. Here is a relic of one of them to take home from your pilgrimage."

Grayson Perry table mats

The Grayson Perry mats we made with the artist for Yoox have landed! Available here.

GRAYSON PERRY: “ Why have I chosen to have my tapestry images made into a set of table mats? The Vanity of Small Differences is about taste and class in British society and table mats, like net curtains, caravans, tattoos and having a clean car seemed to be one of the clearer symbols that divided the socio economic classes … when I researched taste for my television series I encountered table mats in all parts of society, protecting a glass coffee table in a hairdressers house, pseudo-ironically arrayed on a vintage dining table and casually strewn ready for breakfast for a man who owns a castle and six thousand acres. So who knows , buy these without fear.”

Vanity of Small Differences

The Adoration of the Cage Fighters

The Agony in the Car Park

The Expulsion from Number 8 Eden Close

Grayson Perry's latest show has just opened at the Victoria Miro gallery.

His modern take on Hogarth's Rake's Progress charts the rise and fall of 'Tim Rakewell' - from humble beginnings to enormous wealth and celebrity to a grisly death. 

The tapestries are littered with modern indicators of class and style, as in traditional Vanitas paintings, and many  references to early Renaissance artworks. In the third tapestry the poses of Tim (who bears more than a passing resemblance to nineties class-investigator Jarvis Cocker, see Common People) and his girlfriend echo Masaccio's Expulsion c1425, left.

Look out for an upcoming Vanity of Small Differences-related project from Kit Grover!

The Annunciation of the Virgin Deal

The Upper Classes at Bay

#Lamentation