Some are artists, some are muses — Sir Grayson Perry is both, according to a new coffee table book. Photographer Richard Ansett has taken thousands of portraits of Perry over the past 10 years, including Birth, above, which was displayed as if it were religious iconography at the Fitzrovia Chapel. Ansett has now published a book of his portraits of Perry with ACC Art Books, many of them previously unseen.
Muse documents Perry’s Bowie-like range of personae, from his alter-ego Claire, to Madonna and child, to a Dolly Parton-style American country girl. “When he’s dressed in a frock, Grayson will do almost anything for the camera,” writes Ansett, who fills the book with accompanying anecdotes about his muse.
