Ai Morrissey - a creative journey

Creative Practice and Approach

As part of my ongoing creative development, I have been exploring the possibilities of AI as both a visual tool and a conceptual partner. My interest lies not simply in what these systems can produce, but in the strange and revealing territory they open up between authorship, performance, and commentary. Through this process, I have been drawn increasingly towards work that engages with social observation, public absurdity, and the theatrical nature of contemporary life. I am particularly interested in cancel culture, celebrity status, and the ways social media can influence, accelerate, and distort public opinion. I am equally drawn to questions of perception: how closely people really look, what they choose to accept at face value, and how readily imagery is treated as fact rather than fiction.

To animate this body of images, I have chosen Steven Patrick Morrissey as a recurring central figure: part muse, part mask, part cultural lightning rod. He functions as a familiar presence through which a shifting cast of situations, tensions, and provocations can be staged. The images are often sparked by topical news stories, fleeting headlines, odd public spectacles, or the kind of overlooked incidents that briefly expose the surreal texture of everyday reality. Humour and satire are essential to my pieces, not as decoration but as method, allowing me to approach contemporary events obliquely, through exaggeration, contrast, and playful distortion. Morrissey may be the anchor, but the wider field remains open; no public figure, symbol, or sacred cow is necessarily beyond reach if it serves the image and sharpens the idea.