THE winner of the Turner prize, 43-year-old Grayson Perry wore a heavily-embroided, mauve satin dress with puff sleeves while collecting his £20,000 award for a painted vase.
The unusual Mr Perry, married with an 11-year-old daughter Flo, gets Arts Council lottery cash to help him embroider his frocks.
A spokesman said: "Embroidery is considered a craft skill. Perry's dresses are art works in themselves. We contributed £2,500 towards one of them."
Can there be much wrong with a nation that pays transvestites to embroider their own frocks?
Colin Henson,
Moorcroft Road,
Woodthorpe, York.
Updated: 11:41 Friday, December 12, 2003
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