Here’s the latest on Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur.
The show is at the Wallace Collection in London, running March 28 to October 26, 2025, featuring more than 40 new works by Grayson Perry alongside pieces tied to outsider artists Madge Gill and Aloïse Corbaz. Visitors can expect a theatrical, narrative-driven presentation that blends Perry’s alter egos with the Wallace’s historic collection.[1][3]
Critical reception in early 2025 was mixed but drawn interest for Perry’s approach to reinterpreting the Wallace Collection: some reviews praise the craft and ambition, while others critique the show’s tone and framing within a historic gallery. Major outlets noted Perry’s use of fantasy, biographical storytelling, and the inclusion of outsider art as central to the experience.[3][4][7][8]
For context, Wallace Collection materials and press materials from late 2024 emphasize advance booking and the exhibition’s status as a landmark, the largest contemporary exhibition held at the museum to date. Tickets are recommended to be booked online in advance.[1]
If you’re in Chicago and planning to follow updates remotely, major UK outlets (The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, and The Week) provided contemporaneous reviews and features around the 2025 opening period, capturing the public conversation about Perry’s method and the show’s reception.[4][8][3]
Illustration: A typical experience includes moving through rooms that mix Perry’s ceramic works, tapestries, and drawings with reproductions and references from the Wallace Collection, inviting comparisons between original masterpieces and Perry’s reimagined pieces.[3][1]
Would you like a quick summary of what critics praised versus what they criticized, or help locating current tickets and visiting hours for the Wallace Collection?[1][3]
'It’s convoluted, but what the deluded, imaginary Smith does is free Perry to explore several ideas and themes — taste and status, gender stereotypes, the purpose of fantasy and the power of art — without getting bogged down. More than 40 new works by Perry, about a third of which...
www.victoria-miro.comArtworks 'by' Perry's new alter ego – an abuse survivor from the East End called Shirley Smith – sit among works by real outsider artists. His stronger pieces are more straightforward
www.theguardian.comBook your ticket for our upcoming major exhibition, Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur.
www.wallacecollection.orgThe Turner Prize-winning artist's show at The Wallace Collection showcases his persistent 'anti-establishment stance'
theweek.comOne of the many joys of Grayson Perry’s inspired collaboration with the Wallace Collection, marking his 65th birthday and the museum’s largest contemporary exhibition to date, is that it is the artist who provides the highly articulate explanatory notes. The critic is left with almost too much guidance, but a standout peg is a quote from video art pioneer Nam June Paik that Perry has drawn on before. “An artist’s job is to bite the hand that feeds him, but not too hard”.
londongrip.co.ukGrayson Perry's latest show reinterprets the Wallace Collection. The Arb's art writer, Rosalind Ormiston, went along to the show's opening to investigate... For Londoners, the Wallace Collection, in Hartford House, is one of the nicest galleries to visit, and visit regularly. It has a charm and sense of place unlike any other, not to mention a phenomenal collection of fine art and decorative art. Where else can you walk through a room and find a masterpiece by Rembrandt, a painting of his son,...
www.arbuturian.comSir Grayson Perry poses with 'The Great Beauty' cabinet, one of his latest artworks displayed at the Wallace Collection as part of a landmark exhibition 'Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur' in...
www.gettyimages.co.ukAn exhibition at the Wallace Collection in London features 40 new works by Grayson Perry, alongside pieces by the "outsider" artists Aloïse Corbaz and Madge Gill.
airmail.newsThe popular artist likes to tease and provoke, but with this response to the Wallace Collection, he comes across as irritable and stroppy
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