Cloud Studies:
Rebecca Beardmore, Leah Beeferman, Yvette Hamilton, Anna Madeleine Raupach

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Rebecca Beardmore, Cloud (4943), 2025 Four-plate photogravures on BFK

Cloud Studies brings together artists Leah Beeferman, Anna Madeleine Raupach, Rebecca Beardmore, and Yvette Hamilton to imagine the atmosphere as a threshold, where clouds hover between the natural and the technological. The artists consider clouds not only as weather forms but as symbolic spaces where history, representation, science, and environmental change converge.

Working across photography, video, data visualisation and printmaking the works in the exhibition approach clouds as mutable figures of knowledge and metaphor. They also echo the contemporary “cloud” of digital and algorithmic technologies, fabricating glimpses into hidden infrastructures and opaque systems. The atmosphere emerges here as a frontier: fragile, charged, and suspended, where earth and sky, human and machine, presence and disappearance intersect.

Exhibition artists

Anna Madeleine Raupach

Anna Madeleine Raupach is a multidisciplinary artist based on Ngunawal/Ngambri land. She has a PhD from UNSW Art & Design and is a Senior Lecturer at the ANU School of Art & Design. Through multimedia installations, AR and VR experiences, and mixed media artworks, her practice engages with science and technology to critically address socio-political issues enmeshed with climate change.

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Leah Beeferman

Leah Beeferman makes digital images, prints, objects, and videos, records sound, and writes texts. She seeks to understand the atmosphere and its movements, calculations, and shapes: the ways it makes weather forms, forms landscapes, and alters them. Beeferman teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University, and was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Grant to Finland.

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Rebecca Beardmore

Rebecca Beardmore is an artist and Senior Lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, based on Gadigal land. Her experimental printmaking practice investigates intersections of photography, materiality, and image-making systems. Current research explores moiré patterns as perceptual thresholds, revealing tensions between analogue tactility and algorithmic translation.

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Yvette Hamilton

Yvette Hamilton is an interdisciplinary artist of Mauritian descent based on Dharug and Gundungurra land. She probe the limits and expectations of representation within photography, through expanded, algorithmic and alternative photographic techniques. She is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney.

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