AIBU to share this mad tea towel with you?

[Felix81]

I often wonder what the Mumsnet user base would make of this tea towel, which was a gift from my mum celebrating her local area. My DH thinks it's a real curiosity.

It’s a Grayson Perry design, I think? I’ve seen a suite of the screen prints in a gallery somewhere. Quirky, but that’s his style.

It's a bit creepy.Does it tell the story of a local legend?

According to a recent TikTok I saw @Felix81 vintage tea towels (along with lace) are now the in-thing to be selling on Vinted! Could be worth a small fortune! It is very, very quirky though 😂

It’s wonderfully researched by Grayson Perry and a real conversation piece. I like it.

Oh wow. I didn't realise it might be famous. Grayson Perry?! I'm glad i posted.

Great if it's your thing @Felix81 but I wouldn't appreciate it. Quite honestly, it gives me the creeps! 😱

Why did she give you something to celebrate her area?

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There is a baby coffin, and what's that on the ground in the right bottom corner?

Have a read: www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/369/

A local tea towel for local people.

Its a dick. And a woman taking it from behind.

Classy.

I didn't realise it might be famous. Grayson Perry?! I'm glad i posted.
This is what I don't like about the Art Scene.
A random tea towel is 'mad' but a Grayson Perry is cause for celebration?
In my world, it's the Art not the Artist that counts.

This printed tea-towel was made for sale alongside his [Grayson Perry’s] exhibition The Charms of Lincolnshire at the Victoria Miro Gallery, London, 2006 (first shown at The Collection). For this show Perry selected historic artefacts – everything from toys, costume and bibles to game-keepers’ traps, coffin plates and a wooden hearse, from various museums of rural life and social history in Lincolnshire. These were shown in conjunction with his own works – including dolls, vases, plates, and an embroidered sampler, all of which were designed to blend together in what was described as “a three-dimensional narrative poem” exploring death, childhood, religion, folk art, hunting and the feminine (a theme of particular interest to Perry, who is a transvestite). Many of the objects in the exhibition are depicted in the image on the tea-towel, with Lincoln Cathedral in the background and with various phallic fungi prominent in the foreground. The title of the exhibition evokes a bucolic cliché of National Trust England; Perry chose to design a tea-towel as a reference to the ubiquitous souvenir tea-towels found in every NT and country-house gift shop.

You're not having the shop's precious things. There's nothing here for you.