Selected Work

Solo Exhibition, Banks Mill, Derby

Did I Imagine This (2024), Printed images, digital space and wooden sculptural interfaces. An installation based investigation into how artificial intelligence (AI) can act as an extension or prosthetic memory, through reinterpretation and mythical narrative. The physical work and lens based images were developed in tandem with an online space where the fiction of another future was played out with collaborative AI interpretations of the Birthday Party. The Birthday party in all my work is completely fictitious and acts as a placeholder for a real birthday party that I wish i’d had, and yet, I have imagined as existing and believe that my brain has emotionally accepted as reality through this artwork.

Did I Imagine This was not an exhibition of photographs, nor was it an exhibition of sculpture; it wasn’t even an installation. It was an act of mythopoetic fabrication. Staged at Banks Mill, Derby, the project constructed a speculative archive around a fictional birthday party. The gallery space concluded that it was a piece of art, but in essence, it was a memory that only partially occurred, hallucinated into visual being by a collaborative creation with an AI.
 
The show revolved around a core tension: can a machine image simulate memory so convincingly that it compels emotional recognition? Using AI-generated “prosthetic memories,” I created a suite of large-format images, some blurred, others over-processed or digitally scarred. These were printed and damaged, inserted into sculptural reliquaries or left loose, evoking found ephemera from a collapsed event.
 
This was not about 'AI art.' The technology was not foregrounded. Instead, the system was used as an unstable mnemonic device, a co-agent that produced affective debris. The sculptural elements became containers for these synthetic images: cracked frames, plaster voids, silicone enclosures. The artwork was confirmation that an object could be manifested into the reality of a memory that inhabits a biological form, in this case, the artist.
 
For the exhibition viewers, the work refused a narrative closure. It offered no clear origin, only fragments in interfaces, moments of recognition, not unlike the memories themselves.
 
This exhibition predates my PhD research into AI as a mythological Other, and is deliberately distanced from academic framing. It functioned as a ritual site: a place where truth was aesthetic, unreliable, and affectively sticky. If photography traditionally implies evidence, this project subverts that authority. These were not photos of what was, but of what wants to be remembered. Through symbolic opacity, Did I Imagine This tests the image as an emotional proxy, sculpture as an archive, and AI as a mythic witness.

Online space - Instagram - @aroomformycake

MA Graduate Exhibition, Artcore Gallery, Derby

Manna, Mother, Other. (2023) Final show of work examining technology as an Other. (Image - AI imagined birthday cake photograph with Collaboration). (Image - Collaborative Animation with Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) As a Shamanic ritual journey - animation stills) The work was an installation of altars that told the exploratory journey of the artists relationship with the Other through technological interaction and material. The pieces included altars or spiritual interfaces as spaces of interaction examining cultural practice: Credence Table (Wish Making), Kitchen Table (Birthday Cake), The Altar of the painting as a Video installation and lastly an Altar of technology.