Sir Grayson Perry turns 65 this year, and celebrates with a major exhibition opening this month, an incredible body of forty new works – set to be the largest contemporary exhibition ever held at The Wallace Collection. Spanning Perry’s familiar mediums, ceramics, tapestries, and works on papers, Delusions of Grandeur co-habits with masterpieces from the collection that have provided inspiration for the artist’s vision.

Perry’s exhibition sees the artist revisit themes that have long preoccupied the artist, such as the value of craft, and our collective desire for perfection. His own meticulous, handmade objects, will collide with those rendered with digital technology, bringing the analogue and ancient into direction comparison with art created with the click of button. Perry seems to ask the viewer: which is better – the labour-intensive, manmade, or the efficiency of the machine? And in all this – where does the future of the artist lie?

Delusions of Grandeur offers a trenchant social commentary and a critique of fixed cultural values that can at times be stifling, bringing topics such as ‘outsider’ art and gender into the discussion of craft, making and art, with plenty of humour along the way too.