Teenage Art School

Teenage Art School (TAS) explores how artists respond to place, combining AI, text and image to produce statements about our lived environments

Working with varied practitioners and 21 young artists over 5 days in August, with a dedicated workshop blending combined knowledge of Art and engineering to produce installations with an AI twist working creatively with collage, photography, drawing and AI, developing contemporary work for an exhibition.

This intensive workshop explored Renaissance landscape artworks, focusing on Gainsborough’s innovative techniques. Students practiced drawing using landscape ‘sets’ in boxes, replicating Gainsborough’s forward-thinking approach.

They then collaborated in groups of three to create a three-board landscape display, emphasising collaboration and composition. The class also integrated AI technologies and open-source software, including Photopea, Canva, and NVIDIA tools, to generate new digital works inspired by landscapes.

The use of free tools reinforced the idea that, much like Gainsborough—who famously used everyday materials like broccoli—artists can create with whatever is readily available.