CRANKY PANTS
Cranky Pants is a collaboration with UK artist Bruce Asbestos placing identity, emotion and playful self expression at the centre of the gallery experience.
Curated by Lilly Blue, and set within a vivid pop art world of larger than life characters, the interactive exhibition invites visitors to explore a broad spectrum of disobedient feelings and rebellious design. As a rejection of perfection and prettiness the exhibition encourages participants to expand their emotional range and sense of self through experiments on the catwalk. Through humour, costume design and character-driven creativity, Cranky Pants creates a welcoming space for audiences of all ages to explore both the serious and the silly sides of themselves. The exhibition asks important questions about how self-expression can help us develop a wider emotional palette, how shared creative experiences build a sense of belonging and how bold pop-art characters help to make gallery spaces more widely welcoming and accessible.
“Gallery 09 exhibition’s are designed with a rigorous methodology considering engagement by adult participants as much as children and families. Cranky Pants is an irreverent invitation to critique institutional order and exclusivity through chaotic material experiments that accumulate over time transforming the viewer into the artist and the artwork.” Lilly Blue, Head of Learning and Creativity Research
