- Venue
- The Customs House Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, April 15, 2023
- Ends
- Sunday, May 21, 2023
- Address
- The Customs House, Mill Dam, South Shields, NE33 1ES
- Location
- North East England
- Organiser
- The Customs House Gallery
Prometheus
The Customs House Gallery
20 March – 22 May 2023
Prometheus continues the exploration of collaborative painting that The Customs House and Newcastle University Fine Art started through Glaucus & Scylla (2022), this time beginning with the myth of Prometheus from Ovid’s Metamorphosis.
The project explores the challenge of the creator, how this creation can rebel against perceived authorities, and the consequences of doing so. Simultaneously, the artists question the notion of what it is to be a painter, taking the artists out of the stereotypical ‘solitary confinement’ of the studio and bringing them together into a collaborative group to challenge the very way they think about their painting practice.
In conflict with this is another creator, a pseudo-participant made using Artificial Intelligence (AI). This AI disrupts our creation while simultaneously generating something new. In this way we turn the myth on its head, do we consider the merit of this non-human creation or do we condone it? And in doing so, what does that say about us as artists?
Prometheus has been a collaborative project between:
Christian Mieves
Darren Cairney
Ellen Morrison
Katie Houser
Manako Maddison
Max Bryg
Oscar Harethwaites
Quinzy Potou
Roohia Syed Ahmed
Rory Williams
Sheila Culling
Supported by funding from the Institute for Creative Arts Practice
