Choosing Grayson Perry to win this year’s Turner Prize was evidently no slam dunk as far as the judges were concerned. “The judges’ verdict was anything but a foregone conclusion: it took hours longer than usual to reach a decision, and they went out of their way to praise ‘the outstanding presentations produced by all four artists’. But, in the end, Perry’s use of the traditions of ceramics and drawing, and his “uncompromising engagement with personal and social concerns” put him out front.”