Grayson Perry’s modern tale of social mobility reimagines a Rakes Progress

Six large-scale tapestries by Grayson Perry telling a tale of a modern Rake’s Progress have gone on display at Pitzhanger Gallery in West London, where the original engravings were once displayed.Taking Hogarth’s famed engravings as a starting point, Perry’s tapestries depict a corresponding fable of class, taste and social mobility.
Weaving the complex ‘class journey’ of the fictional protagonist, Tim Rakewell, the tapestries include many of the characters, inciden