Museum of Brisbane is excited partnered with Brisbane City Council on their Outdoor Gallery exhibition <play/ground> in 2023.

<play/ground> celebrates the existing playful charm of Brisbane’s concrete playground and reminds us of the importance of daily routines that ground and connect us to the planet that houses and nourishes.

The painted elements in this composition originate from my studio artworks, which were fed through an artificial intelligence (AI) Application Programming Interface (API). As we witness AI swallow up digital imagery and rebirth millions of new assets using intelligent and adaptive applications, artists everywhere navigate an unclear path through Web 3.0.

By using this technology to amplify my painted works, I use collage as a tactile, destructive means to take back control of the creative process. I also explored underspecification with the text inputs, and relished in the abstraction that comes from the lack of language definition. These artificially generated images became the painted textures in the final composition - a video loop of 8 digital paintings exhibited simultaneously on both the Howard Smith Wharves cliffs (projection) and in the foyer of the Museum of Brisbane (video).


Curated by: Rozelle Tan (MCRT Studio). Exhibition at Brisbane Museum + Howard Smith Wharves.