Essex Life

Quick visit to Abbot Hall Gallery to listen to Grayson Perry's Ballad of Julie Cope and admire the tapestries before the exhibition moves to Wrexham and finally to Stoke on Trent in the middle of the year.

The following text is taken from the Craft Council website. 
Julie Cope is a fictional character created by Grayson Perry – an Essex everywoman whose story he has told through the two tapestries and extended ballad presented in the exhibition. The Essex House Tapestries: The Life of Julie Cope (2015) illustrate the key events in the heroine’s journey from her birth during the Canvey Island floods of 1953 to her untimely death in a tragic accident on a Colchester street.