
Grayson Perry is unveiling a moving new permanent public sculpture today (30 November) in Barking town centre.
Inspiration Lives Here is a two-metre-wide lamp in the shape of a row of semi-detached houses. It is inspired by the Becontree Estate in Dagenham – the UK’s largest housing estate built between 1921 and 1935, during the inter-war housing crisis, with roots in the Arts & Crafts tradition.