Grayson Perry's Full English is an antidote to the culture wars ✒️ emilyrbakes
Ask me to conjure a picture of England and I will think of the Lake District, of severe mountains against a bright blue sky, poetic words about wandering clouds and shouting — not singing — the chorus of “Jerusalem” in school assemblies. It’s an antiquated image of my home country that I have rarely actually experienced.and “that boy at Glastonbury who stuck a key in his nose while he was doing a handstand upside down during Diana Ross”. My sister pointed to the Go Compare adverts.
First of all, he looks the part. That straw-coloured mop of hair, those pale, sometimes ruddy cheeks and charmingly wonky teeth could only be worn proudly by an Englishman. He encapsulates two contrasting sides of England: as an artist and crossdresser living in North London, he’s part of the eccentric cultural elite, but he was born to a working-class family and divorced parents in Sixties Essex, giving him an everyman edge and an ear for what “normal” people have to say.
That’s not to say that Perry is a wholly impartial guide to England’s ideological nooks and crannies. He’s not a journalist and it’s clear he doesn’t intend to be, freely sharing his own opinions and disagreeing with his interview subjects.Take his first stop in Dover, for example, where he meets Jeremy, who patrols the Channel looking for immigrants trying to reach England’s white cliffs illegally.
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