Google Cloud — Sydney
Status:
Completed
Year:
2025
Industry:
AI
Format:
Collaboration
Client:
Google Cloud
Location:
Sydney, Australia
In 2024, in collaboration with Google Cloud and Leonardo.Ai, Jessie Hughes led an artist collaboration that paired emerging AI tools with traditional artistic practice, working closely with acclaimed illustrator James Gulliver Hancock to bring an AI-assisted mural to life in Marrickville, Sydney. The project explored how generative AI can act as a creative partner rather than a replacement, translating digital experimentation into a physical, public artwork.
In 2024, in collaboration with Google Cloud and Leonardo.Ai, Jessie Hughes led an artist collaboration that paired emerging AI tools with traditional artistic practice, working closely with acclaimed illustrator James Gulliver Hancock to bring an AI-assisted mural to life in Marrickville, Sydney. The project explored how generative AI can act as a creative partner rather than a replacement, translating digital experimentation into a physical, public artwork.
Working from James’s distinctive pen-and-paper style, Hughes guided a process that used Leonardo.Ai to generate, iterate, and expand visual ideas before translating them into paint. AI was treated as a catalyst for exploration — helping to spark new compositions, stretch creative thinking, and accelerate ideation — while the final work remained firmly grounded in the artist’s hand, intuition, and authorship.
Working from James’s distinctive pen-and-paper style, Hughes guided a process that used Leonardo.Ai to generate, iterate, and expand visual ideas before translating them into paint. AI was treated as a catalyst for exploration — helping to spark new compositions, stretch creative thinking, and accelerate ideation — while the final work remained firmly grounded in the artist’s hand, intuition, and authorship.
The resulting mural stands as a tangible expression of human creativity enhanced by machine intelligence, demonstrating how AI can seamlessly integrate into established creative workflows. Supported by Google, the project highlighted a new process for artist–technology collaboration — one where tools amplify creative vision, invite play, and open new possibilities for contemporary art in public space.
The resulting mural stands as a tangible expression of human creativity enhanced by machine intelligence, demonstrating how AI can seamlessly integrate into established creative workflows. Supported by Google, the project highlighted a new process for artist–technology collaboration — one where tools amplify creative vision, invite play, and open new possibilities for contemporary art in public space.
In 2024, in collaboration with Google Cloud and Leonardo.Ai, Jessie Hughes led an artist collaboration that paired emerging AI tools with traditional artistic practice, working closely with acclaimed illustrator James Gulliver Hancock to bring an AI-assisted mural to life in Marrickville, Sydney. The project explored how generative AI can act as a creative partner rather than a replacement, translating digital experimentation into a physical, public artwork.
Working from James’s distinctive pen-and-paper style, Hughes guided a process that used Leonardo.Ai to generate, iterate, and expand visual ideas before translating them into paint. AI was treated as a catalyst for exploration — helping to spark new compositions, stretch creative thinking, and accelerate ideation — while the final work remained firmly grounded in the artist’s hand, intuition, and authorship.
The resulting mural stands as a tangible expression of human creativity enhanced by machine intelligence, demonstrating how AI can seamlessly integrate into established creative workflows. Supported by Google, the project highlighted a new process for artist–technology collaboration — one where tools amplify creative vision, invite play, and open new possibilities for contemporary art in public space.
Project team:
Leonardo.Ai, Google Cloud
Collaborators:
James Gulliver Hancock
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