EXPOSED was an experimental exhibition at Custom House, Leith exploring how audiences encounter painting, sculpture, and installation within environments shaped by data, surveillance, and emerging technologies. The exhibition combined oil paintings with sculpture, stained glass, sound and installation elements, alongside a bespoke app that enabled visitors to engage with each work through layered interpretive and participatory processes.

The exhibition was structured around three core thematic pillars: AI-driven surveillance, faith and religion, and rebellion and personal agency. Painting functioned as the conceptual and material anchor, while the digital system extended the works into an immersive, audience-responsive experience.

Visitor interactions informed an evolving AI-assisted interpretive framework, examining how observation, consent, and behavioural data influence meaning-making within cultural spaces. Rather than positioning technology as spectacle, EXPOSED foregrounded questions of belief, power, and autonomy.

Developed as a beta exhibition, EXPOSED prioritised experimentation and audience experience, and forms a key precursor to the artist’s ongoing research into painting-led, participatory exhibition models.