Saturday - 26 February 1.30pm at City Gallery Wellington

Grayson Perry winner of the 2003 Turner Prize will give an illustrated lecture in the City Gallery Wellington cinema. Taking as a starting point the first piece of pottery he made - an ashtray for his mother, aged eight - Perry's talk finishes with a map of his mind that he made last year.

Perry says 'A lot of my work has always had a guerrilla tactic, a stealth tactic. I want to make something that lives with the eye as a beautiful piece of art, but on closer inspection, a polemic or an ideology will come out of it'.

Image: Guerilla tactics and feminine wiles - Grayson Perry as his transvestite alter ego Claire

Guardian InterviewSaturday - 26 February 1.30pm at City Gallery Wellington

Grayson Perry winner of the 2003 Turner Prize will give an illustrated lecture in the City Gallery Wellington cinema. Taking as a starting point the first piece of pottery he made - an ashtray for his mother, aged eight - Perry's talk finishes with a map of his mind that he made last year.

Perry says 'A lot of my work has always had a guerrilla tactic, a stealth tactic. I want to make something that lives with the eye as a beautiful piece of art, but on closer inspection, a polemic or an ideology will come out of it'.

Image: Guerilla tactics and feminine wiles - Grayson Perry as his transvestite alter ego Claire

Guardian InterviewPerry is best known for his ceramic works, classically-shaped vases with deceptively colourful and decorative surfaces. On closer examination Perry's pots offer up their darker imagery: memories of rural decay, autobiographical references (including depictions of Claire, his transvestite alter ego), symbols of masculine stereotypes, cutting commentary on the banality of society and references to political events.

In a 1999 vase titled 'Boring Cool People' (1999), for example, Perry poked fun at the art world, peopling the blue background of the vase with all-white, blank-eyed figures. A vase from 2000, 'We've Found the Body of your Child', is decorated with scenes of grief and death, and deals with both paedophilia and the dangers of child abuse within the home. In addition to his pottery, Perry also works in embroidery and photography, and merges his private female persona with his artwork in performances as Claire.

Grayson Perry is in New Zealand to take part in the Auckland Art Gallery exhibition 'Mixed-Up Childhood - an exhibition for grownups' (Auckland Art Gallery, 24 February - 22 May). He appears courtesy of the British Council New Zealand and Auckland Art Gallery.

For more information about Grayson Perry, visit the Tate Turner Prize website: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/2003/,

or Perry's website: http://www.graysonperry.co.uk