Perry’s shrine to Essex Girls

 
3 October 2012

Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry has been granted planning permission to build an Essex holiday cottage filled with his sculptures, ceramics and tapestries.

In Wrabness, near Harwich, it will be rented out under a scheme set up by philosopher Alain de Botton giving access to avant-garde housing.

Perry said it will be a “living shrine” to a mythical “Julie” and is intended to overturn Essex Girl stereotypes.

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