Tania Ferrier

Tania Ferrier is a contemporary Australian artist. She was born in 1958 in Perth, Western Australia. She moved to New York and worked there as an artist between 1988 and 1992. In 1992 she returned to Perth. She moved to Melbourne in 2012 and returned to Perth in 2019.

Angry Underwear, a feminist fashion project began in 1988 when Ferrier witnessed the sexual assault of a stripper in Brooklyn, New York. Ferrier created a range of fabric painted cotton underwear, featuring vicious animal faces, for the strippers to wear on stage as a performative intervention in retaliation – Art as a weapon. The project went onto to garner international media attention when famous celebrities wore her underwear, including Madonna.The project became the subject of a feature film script, titled Angry Underwear, which is in development through funding from the Australian government. Ferrier co-wrote the script with Kelly Lefever. The script was optioned by Feisty Dame Productions in Perth, Western Australia.