New Year Honours 2023: Grayson Perry and Brian May lead cultural roll call

Artist Grayson Perry and Queen guitarist Brian May person been knighted, starring the taste names who person been included successful the New Year Honours.

Stephen Graham and David Harewood are among the actors to beryllium honoured, some being appointed OBEs.

Pioneering 1960s manner decorator Mary Quant, already a dame, is elevated to a Companion of Honour.

TV presenter Anne Diamond, comedian Frank Skinner and Countdown's Rachel Riley are besides connected the list.

Brian May becomes Sir Brian months aft his set helped motorboat the precocious Queen's Platinum Jubilee performance successful beforehand of Buckingham Palace.

He is rewarded for services to euphony and to charity, aft much than 50 years successful 1 of Britain's astir fashionable stone bands.

Grayson Perry - and his alter-ego Claire - changeable to fame erstwhile helium won the Turner Prize successful 2003, and helium is known for his pottery works and tapestries that springiness his instrumentality connected British life.

His gong for services to the arts comes aft Grayson's Art Club became a deed connected Channel 4 during the pandemic, gathering works from members of the nationalist to beryllium included successful exhibitions astir the UK.

Another acclaimed artist, John Akomfrah, known for video installations dealing with post-colonialism and migration, besides becomes a knight; arsenic does erstwhile BBC Two controller and existent British Library main enforcement Roly Keating.

Dame Mary Quant, who is wide credited with popularising the mini skirt, joins the exclusive Order of the Companions of Honour. It is reserved for radical who person made a large publication to the arts, science, medicine oregon government, and has lone 65 members astatine immoderate 1 time.

There are CBEs for Oscar-nominated movie and TV composer George Fenton, whose soundtracks scope from Gandhi to Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth; and theatre shaper Sonia Friedman, who has staged shows including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Jerusalem.

Stephen Graham, known for TV dramas similar Help, Time and Line of Duty, becomes a CBE for services to drama.

David Harewood gets the aforesaid honour for services to play and charity. He has starred successful Homeland, Supergirl and specified documentaries arsenic Will Britain Ever Have A Black Prime Minister? and My Psychosis And Me.

Well-loved broadcaster Anne Diamond is besides made a CBE for services to nationalist wellness and charity. She has campaigned to trim cot deaths since the decease of her ain young lad successful 1991.

Jazz saxophonist YolanDa Brown, who is appointed CBE, has presented TV shows similar YolanDa's Band Jam connected CBeebies, and held elder positions down the scenes successful the euphony manufacture and euphony education.

And comic illustrator David Sutherland, who created characters similar Dennis the Menace and the Bash Street Kids for The Beano, is besides appointed CBE.

Meanwhile, MBEs spell to Cleo Sylvestre, the archetypal achromatic histrion to person a starring relation astatine London's National Theatre; seasoned comic and presenter Frank Skinner; and Horrid Henry writer Francesca Simon.

Countdown co-host Rachel Riley is appointed MBE for services to Holocaust education. She is besides known for speaking retired astir anti-Semitism successful the Labour Party and this twelvemonth won 2 libel cases arising from that furore.

Investigative writer Catherine Belton receives the aforesaid honour. Her 2020 publication Putin's People attracted 5 lawsuits brought by Russian oligarchs and firms.

Singer Janet Kay, known for the 1979 Lovers' Rock deed Silly Games, is besides appointed MBE; on with playwright Rachel De-Lahay.

Producer and vigor presenter DJ Spoony is awarded the British Empire Medal for services to charities done euphony during Covid-19.