LONDON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Transvestite potter Grayson Perry has been awarded the 20th annual Turner Prize, Britain's most provocative art award.
Perry collected his 20,000-pound award ($33,000) Sunday night wearing a 2,500-pound ($3,125) purple dress decorated with rabbits and hearts, and thanked his wife.
Perry's controversial vases depict death and child abuse as well as satirize the art and fashion world.
According to the BBC, Tate Gallery director and judge Nicholas Serota said Perry had not won just because he had made ceramics fashionable.
"I think the jury felt strongly that these were the works of a very strong artist who happens to be using ceramics and drawing," he said.
Last year, British Culture Minister Kim Howells described the nominated artwork as "cold, mechanical, conceptual bulls***."
