Tom Furse

Tom Furse is an artist who works across digital image-making, artwork commissions and design, alongside a career as a musician and member of the band The Horrors.¹ His visual art combines AI-driven image synthesis with hand-finished physical materials, as in Ekstasis, a digital reinterpretation of Wedgwood's Borghese vase built from 55 separately generated and hand-painted elements.²

Ekstasis reinterprets the Borghese vase as what Furse calls “a psychic digital object devoted to Bacchanalian rituals”, with each of its 55 elements generated using machine learning image synthesis tools before being hand-painted and assembled into the finished form.²