Galleries - October 2024

Grayson Perry, Expulsion from Number 8 Eden Close , 2012. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © Grayson Perry. Gift of the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery with the support of Channel 4 Television, the Art Fund and Sfumato Foundation with additional support from AlixPartners GRAYSON PERRY The Vanity of Small Differences 10 July – 8 December 2024 Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Ealing , LONDON Six monumental tapestries by Turner Prize-winning artist, Sir Grayson Perry CBE RA Hon FRIBA, will be displayed in the home that William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress, the inspiration behind Perry’s tapestries, were bought for and displayed. The tapestries offer a contemporary re-reading of the series of eight satirical paintings depicting a riches-to-rags tale of Tom Rakewell in 18 th -century London. Hogarth’s original paintings were bought by the renowned architect Sir John Soane’s wife 222 years ago to be displayed at the home he designed to house his collection of art and antiquities in Ealing, West London. Pitzhanger Manor, their recently restored former home, continues to display a full series of framed 18 th century engravings of A Rake’s Progress in their original setting of the vibrant red walls of the Soane’s drawing room, so visitors will be in the unique position to be able to