The Life of Julie Cope

Wonderful Grayson Perry at First Site gallery in Colchester.
Exhibitions sound track is Grayson reading The Ballad of Julie Cope:

‘He told the ashen copper that there was
Someone close by to make him tea, he lied.
What some would call an ordinary life
Was now a snatch of badly printed news’

He has a wonderful way of holding you just on the watershed between laughter and tears.

Extras : Julie’s birth during the flood on Canvey Island in 1953

‘she glistened panting on a lurex curtain
Ripped last minute from the box room window
At dawn a lifeboat full of frightened neighbours
Struck the gutter..’

And three ducks on an end wall in Fingringhoe.