Police are investigating after a sculpture by the artist and broadcaster Grayson Perry was stolen from a Bristol artwork gallery.
The 27cm glazed ceramic determine, referred to as Alien Child, was taken from the Hidden Gallery within the Clifton space between 1.15pm and 1.26pm on 30 August, Avon and Somerset police mentioned.
Officers mentioned a person carrying a camouflaged baseball cap and darkish zip-up jacket walked as much as the restricted version gilded ceramic on show on the gallery.
He was considered one of two males seen within the space the place the piece was stolen, in line with police.
Alien Child was created through the filming for the Bafta-nominated collection Rites of Passage in 2018. Within the four-episode collection, Perry explores the rituals that govern the large moments in our lives together with start, the place he spoke with moms who had given start to untimely infants, and their nurses.
After the collection, the Turner prize-winning potter and tapestry-maker, curator, author and presenter created 12 “alien infants”, “as a solution to ritualise and have fun the NHS, know-how and the humanity of the neonatal nurses”, the gallery mentioned. The gilded ceramics had been then given to the nurses and people featured within the present.
Perry, one of many UK’s most famous artists, is thought for questioning every part from class to gender id, and primarily, his ceramics. He's additionally a curator, author and broadcaster – identified for his Channel 4 present Grayson’s Artwork Membership and his touring set, A Present for Regular Individuals.
“Unwittingly, I stumbled throughout a distinct segment that hadn’t been occupied by anyone within the artwork world. There's a lengthy historical past of ceramics, in fact, however no person who had actually embraced the traditional craft, the orthodoxies: pots which are pot-shaped, which are fired, which are glazed, which are ornamental,” Perry mentioned in 2014.
Hidden Gallery declined to touch upon Tuesday.
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