2003-10-08
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Jessica Berens meets Grayson PerryThere was a lot of sitting in his room and drawing, 'externalising my subconscious' as he puts it. Then he went on to study art at Braintree College and he did not enjoy it until a teacher told him to write an essay about himself. Ten pages later, he had been unleashed and the result was a construction about transvestite jet pilots. 'That set the agenda for a lot of my work.'