Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry lives and works in London, UK. He has presented important solo exhibitions at the British Museum, London, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, La Monnaie de Paris and The National Museum, Oslo, among others. As well as contributing to numerous exhibition catalogues, he is the author of The Descent of Man, Playing to the Gallery and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl (with Wendy Jones).Victoria Coren Mitchell is a writer, broadcaster, newspaper columnist and international poker player. She has published three books, including the memoir For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions of a Player, and is the host of Only Connect on BBC Two.Patrick Elliott is Chief Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the National Galleries of Scotland. He is the author of True to Life: British Realist Painting in the 1920s & 1930s, Joan Eardley: Land & Sea – A Life in Catterline and Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage.Tor Scott is a Collection & Research Assistant at the National Galleries of Scotland. She is undertaking an AHRC-funded doctorate at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on the Surrealist artist Edith Rimmington. She has published and lectured on British Surrealism.

• Directors' Foreword The Welcoming Cloak, Victoria Coren Mitchell Man Hours, Grayson Perry The Rise of Grayson Perry, Patrick Elliott CataloguePottery Technique, Grayson PerryPrint Technique, Patrick Elliott Tapestry Technique, Patrick Elliott Chronology, Tor Scott Select Bibliography Copyright and Photographic Credits Acknowledgements

"The Turner Prize winner leads a visual tour through his life in siz artworks - from college days to knighthood." - Telegraph