While we wait for the opening of Dick Institute’s Grayson Perry exhibition, ‘The Vanity of Small Differences’, which has been postponed due to current lockdown restrictions, we can still enjoy the company of Grayson and his wife Philippa as Grayson’s Art Club returns to Channel 4 this Friday 2 February.

Series 2 subtitled ‘Get Creating’ encourages us once again to explore our creative side and employ art as a means of expressing our response to this ‘unprecedented crisis’.

The Series 1 exhibition entitled ‘Grayson’s Art Club’ brought together works by major artists and celebrities as well as work by members of the public, selected from among the 10,000 entries which were submitted for consideration. Sadly the exhibition scheduled to showcase the artwork from the first series also fell fowl of Covid with lockdown coming into force just days before it was due to open at Manchester Art Gallery.

To find out more and view the works, visit https://manchesterartgallery.org/exhibitions-and-events/exhibition/graysons-art-club/

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We have been working with East Ayrshire secondary school art departments on a unique blended learning and engagement exhibition project.  With schools currently unable to visit the Dick Institute galleries, we posted out ‘The Vanity of Small Differences’ exhibition boxes… an exciting exhibition experience delivered direct to the classroom with lots of digital and physical resources.

 Taking inspiration from ‘Grayson’s Art Club’, we asked pupils to create a piece of artwork responding to themes in the Grayson Perry exhibition, and with these we have made a collective exhibition of artworks to show a snapshot of how young people chose to express their identities today.

This is the online exhibition from Grange Academy.

Enjoy the latest online exhibition in response to Grayson Perry, 'The Vanity of Small Differences' featuring work by Park School.

Perry also co-ordinated the Royal Academy of Arts 250^th Summer Exhibition in 2018. The prestigious Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open submission exhibition and displays work by emerging talent as well as more established artists. Kathleen Mullaniff (who is featured in our Collections Spotlight news item) had her work included in the 2020 Summer Exhibition which you can view here https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2020/artworks/kathleen-mullaniff/189