Grayson Perry reveals artworks as part of Channel 4 series on identity

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The Turner-Prize winning artist Grayson Perry today reveals a series of new works created during his Channel 4 series: Grayson Perry: Who Are You? The works will go on display in the nineteenth-century galleries at the National Portrait Gallery, placed among portraits of the great generals, monarchs and politicians of the past to form a display accompanying the programmes.

The new series, which begins on Wednesday 22 October at 10pm, sees Perry explore identity in contemporary Britain through the creation of portraits. In each of the programmes, Grayson spends time with a series of people who are at a crossroads or crisis in their own identity, and makes works that try to capture each of them in a single, revealing image.

Among these works is a portrait of the former politician Chris Huhne, who appears in the first episode of the series. Huhne fell from grace when his wife Vicky Pryce revealed that he had asked her to take the blame for his speeding offence. He resigned from the cabinet and was subsequently jailed for perverting the course of justice. Perry secured the last interview with Huhne and his girlfriend Carina Trimingham the night before his sentencing and was the first to interview him the morning of his release from prison.