A CERAMIC tile by Turner prize-winning artist Grayson Perry is on display at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery.

The tile was created by the English contemporary artist and TV presenter for A House for Essex, the stunning ceramic-clad holiday home which he designed in collaboration with FAT Architecture.

It is among 60 works of art which are being loaned to just five museums in England by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London from this month.

People can see the tile as part of Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery’s new Structures in Ceramic exhibition which runs until April 20.

The exhibition celebrates the history and craft of architectural ceramic production in Darwen.

Cllr Damian Talbot, Blackburn with Darwen Council’s executive member for leisure and culture, said: "It’s fantastic to see these important works on display at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery.

"Grayson Perry is internationally recognised and the local link with materials produced by Shaws and Darwen Terracotta is well worth celebrating. I would urge people to visit the museum to see the exhibition whilst the pieces are on loan."

A House for Essex is a unique guest house which overlooks the River Stour and is just an hour by train from London.

It was designed to fulfill Perry’s long-held wish to build a chapel to the history of his home county of Essex.

Dubbed as ‘architectural eccentricity at its most creative’, the architecture interprets the traditions of Russian Stave churches, wayside chapels and roadside memorials.

The house is clad in some two thousand handmade tiles; which along with the roof sculptures, have all been created from originals produced by Perry.

Perry said: “A House for Essex was particularly special and personal project for me, so I’m delighted that a piece of it is travelling up to Blackburn to support the V&A’s DesignLab Nation.”