Grayson on His Bike

Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry is to make a pilgrimage with his childhood teddy bear Alan Measles on highly decorative Kenilworth AM1 motorcycle, with a shrine on the back for his teddy bear for his inaugural voyage to Germany. Grayson dressed as a young girl ("puffy sleeves, big petticoats, white frilly socks"). Perry has designed certain aspects of the machine himself, including wing-nuts with teddy bear details. He had  spent his  troubled childhood in suburban Essex creating a fantasy life where he fought off the brutish invading Germans, under the command of his teddy bear Alan Measles, a plucky wartime Resistance leader who became his hero, a sort of personal God and the embodiment of everything that was good about masculinity. This inaugural voyage, 10 Days of Alan, takes them across Bavaria on a mission of reconciliation with their old enemies.

 

This programme was great help into the great minds of today’s work, the idea of creating a god like character is amazing and inspiring. I am eager to meet him.