Toowoomba artist Belinda Stanton is displaying the results of blending her regular artistic practice with Artificial Intelligence (AI) in her new exhibition, Hallucination, which is on display at Goombungee's Rosalie Gallery from April 3 to 28, 2024.
Belinda is interested in exploring how our minds work, how we translate and communicate thoughts visually, and how these tangible images become a physical record of our contemporary experiences.
She has been looking at the development of AI image generation technologies, likening it to using a camera obscura where audiences are presented with a distorted view of reality.
In Hallucination, Belinda explores how AI creates images from user inputs, online sources, and labelling systems, and how they mirror our cultural norms and societal biases.
She thinks that by using new technologies she can connect with the zeitgeist of the early 21st Century.
The works shown in the exhibition were made by merging the artist's existing 2D and 3D art with an AI model, the visuals provided by AI were then remixed and reworked to be used as reference materials to create traditional oil paintings and 3D printed sculptural work.
Belinda graduated with a Visual Art degree (First Class Honours) from the University of Southern Queensland in 2023.
Belinda has a background in graphic design and ceramics, and previously ran a ceramic studio in Maleny making commercial art pieces, fine art pieces and functional pottery.
Belinda has sold her ceramic work in gallery shops, including the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Brisbane and Armidale's New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM).
The exhibition's artist talk is at 1pm on Saturday, April 6, 2024. This is a free event, with no bookings required.
