Grayson Perry is standing in the middle of the gallery, surrounded by his always colourful, often intricate and sometimes risqué art – in every direction there are pots, flanked by vast tapestries.

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Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Grayson Perry is standing in the middle of the gallery, surrounded by his always colourful, often intricate and sometimes risqué art – in every direction there are pots, flanked by vast tapestries. The thing you have to remember, Perry is saying, is that people don’t go to art galleries to be lectured. “You can be populist and sophisticated at the same time,” he says. “But in our culture, those two have been uneasy bedfellows.”

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