Artist shows his pants to raise awareness

Charity: One-day exhibition of stained glass Y-fronts raises around £500 for Cahonas Scotland

A Fife artist was showing off his pants at the weekend – but it was all for a good cause.

Keny Drew hosted a one-day exhibition of stained glass Y-fronts at Cellardyke harbour in aid of cancer charity Cahonas Scotland as part of Testicular Cancer Awareness Month.

Some of Scotland’s best-known faces, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and actors Elaine C Smith and Tom Urie, designed briefs for the Fife event.

Fife MPS Stephen Gethins, who had a Sex Pistols-themed design, and Roger Mullin also commissioned pants, along with singers Horse McDonald and King Creosote.

All the orders were hung on a washing line on Saturday before they were collected by their new owners.

Crail-based Keny of East Neuk Glass made the custom-commissioned pants and sold them for £30, with £10 from each pair going to Cahonas Scotland’s awareness campaign.

Keny said around 400 people turned up on the day and estimated he had made around £500 for the charity.

More will be raised when the celebrity pants are auctioned later in the year.

Keny said he began making the pants when he was teaching people how to make stained glass and decided he should put them to good use.

“I always hung them on a washing line to display them but just making pants and hanging them up seemed kind of pointless so I decided to link in with Cahonas,” he said.

Ritchie Marshall of Cahonas Scotland said: “Every day six men in the UK will be diagnosed with testicular cancer. Despite these statistics, many men do not self-check or know what to look for.”

He added: “While survival rates of male cancers are increasing, early diagnosis is key to this and Keny’s stained glass pants project will hopefully get men in Scotland thinking a little more about what’s going on in their own pants, and allow us to continue to educate and develop men’s understanding of the signs and symptoms of testicular cancers and the impact on health and well-being.”

River City star Tom said: “This was a unique opportunity to see your pants hanging on the same East Neuk washing line as Elaine C Smith’s and mine,”

Just making pants and hanging them up seemed kind of pointless so I decided to link in with Cahonas. KENY DREW

Pictures: Steven Brown. Keny Drew’s glass Y-fronts were admired by an estimated 400 people. Below: Keny with some of his brilliant designs.