Overview
- National Museum Cardiff said the unauthorized work was removed after staff were alerted by visitors.
- The print, titled Empty Plate, was hung in the contemporary galleries on October 29 and was seen by a few hundred people, according to the artist.
- The image shows a boy in a Welsh school uniform with an empty plate and carried a fabricated label presenting it as a signed limited digital print on loan from the artist.
- Elias Marrow says he sketched the image before using AI to create the final print, framing AI as a legitimate tool in evolving artistic practice.
- Marrow links the intervention to earlier unsanctioned placements at Tate Modern and Bristol Museum, as some visitors questioned the work’s quality and provenance and no sanctions have been announced.