Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize
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Exhibition and competition celebrating both emerging and established talents in photo media.
Cloud Studies:
Rebecca Beardmore, Leah Beeferman, Yvette Hamilton, Anna Madeleine Raupach
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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.
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.
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.
Yvette Hamilton
Yvette Hamilton is an Australian artist of Mauritian descent living on Dharug and Gundungurra land (Blue Mountains, NSW). Her photographic practice spans analogue, digital and alternative practices, and is conceptually guided by ontological explorations of photography and the link between vision and knowledge.
She is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at the University of Sydney and has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas over the past fifteen years. She has recently been a finalist in the Bowness Photography Prize, Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize, Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, The Blake Prize, and the Josephine Ulrick & Winn Schubert Photography Award.
Upcoming exhibitions
LUCKY ROCKET:
Yani Clarke
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LUCKY ROCKET follows Yani Clarke’s return after the 2022 floods, revisiting Bun Bang Fai rocket festivals to explore place, ritual, and resilience.
Halfway Seen Halfway Home (半窥半归) :
Guylieuzy (Ming Liew & Will Wang)
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A moving-image exhibition exploring Chinese–Australian hybrid identity shaped by migration, memory and cultural negotiation.