Gatekeeper

Medium: Acrylic on polycotton
Size: 189 × 148 cm
Framing: Framed
Artist based in: Belli Park, QLD

Acquired

The Noosa Art Prize is acquisitive. As the winner of the Main Prize, the original is no longer available to buy.

About the work

Gatekeeper responds to the disorienting rise of AI and the struggle to remain human inside systems that automate, regulate, and monetise creativity.Here, two de-stabilised gestural human forms are infiltrated by circular symbols representing computer code, Morse signals, surveillance, weapons, and data tracking. This infiltration questions where individuality survives amid accelerating technological control.The title references those who dictate what is seen, offering a self-serving version of "truth." Ultimately, the work challenges viewers to question these systems of authority.