Too Cute! curated by Rachel Maclean – Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

26 Jan – 12 May 2019

Rachel Maclean will examine the world of cuteness by curating works from the Arts Council Collection and Birmingham’s collection to reveal how objects and images can have the unique ability to be simultaneously sweet and sinister. The display at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery will showcase the multiple manifestations of sinister cuteness with works ranging from 19th-century oil paintings to internet-inspired installations. Artists include Alison Gill, Gillian Wearing, Ana Maria Pacheco, Helen Chadwick, Paula Rego, Peter Blake and Hermann Sondermann. The exhibition will ask why we feel the need to share and reproduce cute things, as well as question the fine line between cuteness and creepiness. The Guardian review here.