Our Work

Art UK

AI-assisted discovery for the UK public art collection.

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The problem

Hundreds of thousands of artworks in public collections are effectively invisible, searchable only by whatever metadata a cataloguer had time to type.

What it is

Art UK is the online home of every public art collection in the United Kingdom. We build AI capabilities for the platform: retrieval that understands what a visitor means rather than just what they typed, and vision models that can describe and point at what is actually in a painting.

The work turns a static catalogue into something a researcher, teacher or curious visitor can interrogate in plain language.