User:Tania Ferrier

In 1988 a sexual assault incident at infamous "Club Wildfire" strip club in Brooklyn Heights, New York, inspired Australian artist/bar tender Tania Ferrier to create Angry Underwear; painted bras and underpants with vicious teeth and eyes on them. Initially for the strippers to wear on stage, Angry Underwear went from club land to become an international media sensation covered by USA, AUS, German, Italian, Japanese and Mexican TV programs and other media outlets. An exclusive lingerie store, Enelra, sold Angry Underwear and Madonna, Naomi Campbell, Lauren Hutton, Reno and Odetta are amongst celebrities who own Ferrier bras.

In Perth in 1989, the Ferrier's exhibition, “ Angry Underwear and Other Statements “, was briefly closed by the Shadow Minister for the Arts, Philip Pendal, citing obscenity and inappropriate use of government funding. This in turn lead to thousands of people seeing the exhibition at Artemis Gallery when it was re-opened with news outlets and talkback shows covering the story as well as national newspapers and magazines.

Ferrier moved onto other art forms after Angry Underwear that gave voice to her interests in feminism and social justice issues ( see www.taniaferrier.com.au ) and exhibited documentation of the original project at Noir Gallery, Salamanca Art Centre and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in Australia in 2018.

In the arts journal Praxis M, Zoe Sofia wrote, "Angry Underwear is costume as cultural intervention; she who is coded to-be-looked at can look ( and bite ) back".

After completing a screen writing for Film & TV course in 2017, Ferrier wrote a feature film drama titled “Angry Underwear” based on the project of the same name. Ferrier’s script has been shortlisted for the Sundance Film Lab in 2019 and is the recipient of Screen Australia Story Development funding.