DISGRACED ex-Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne's face has been immortalised in a high profile artwork by one of the world's most renowned artists.

Grayson Perry CBE, a Turner Prize winning potter whose work regularly sells for hundreds of thousands of pounds, has created a ceramic vase decorated with motifs of Huhne along with the former politician's personalised number plate.

From this Saturday it will be exhibited in National Portrait Gallery in London - alongside portraits of the great generals, monarchs and politicians of the past.

Perry, famed for his often obscenely decorated pottery and wacky cross-dressing, chose Huhne as part of a Channel Four TV series which aired last night called Grayson Grayson: who are you?

The artist explores identity in contemporary Britain through the creation of portraits.

In each of the programmes, Grayson spends time with a series of people who are at a crossroads or crisis in their own identity, and makes works that try to capture each of them in a single, revealing image.

Huhne was selected as a subject following the ex-government minister's fall for grace when his wife Vicky Pryce revealed that he had asked her to take the blame for his speeding offence.

He stepped down as MP for Eastleigh and was subsequently jailed for perverting the course of justice.

Perry secured the last interview with Huhne and his girlfriend Carina Trimingham the night before his sentencing and was the first to interview him the morning of his release from prison.

Alongside Huhne TV series is X-factor and Celebrity Big Brother star Rylan Clark and a white single mum who has converted to Islam.

The Huhne Vase is decorated with a repeating pattern among whose motifs are Huhne's face, his personalised number plate and a phallus.

The pot was purposefully smashed by Perry and then repaired using an ancient Chinese technique, where the cracks are repaired using lacquer resin dusted or mixed with gold.

It will now form part of a free exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery called Grayson Perry: Who are you which runs from this Saturday until March 15.

Perry said: “I wanted to include Chris Huhne [because] he represents what I call Default Man, a white, middle class, middle aged, heterosexual man, an identity group that hides in plain sight.

“I have represented Chris as a series of repeat patterns.

“This is a riposte to the common Default Man's defence that he is an 'individual' and his achievements and behaviour have nothing to do with a group identity.

“I have smashed the pot and had it repaired with gold to symbolise that vulnerability might be an asset in relationships to such a person.”