Fascinated by recording the visible effects of an invisible atmosphere on a landscape, @LeahBeeferman documents disparate landscapes with scientific observatories that collect data about those environments while gathering her own photographic information. Through multilayered photographic prints, 3D scenes, CNC and laser-etched aluminum panels, and videos, she explores the complexity and elusiveness of earthly phenomena and how they are represented as photographic and scientific images.
See ‘Overclouded’ in the Penumbra Project Gallery through January 31st. Gallery Hours are Monday—Friday, from 2—6pm.
Link in profile to learn more about the exhibition.
#PenumbraFoundation
Hard to do justice to the amazing work done by technicians, scientists, and staff at the Cape Grim/Kennaook Baseline Air Pollution Station in Cape Grim, Tasmania, Australia. I’m so grateful that I was able to go for a research trip last month with @anna_madeleine
At Cape Grim/Kennaook, researchers study the earth’s “background” or “baseline” air — some of the cleanest air in the world — blowing off the Southern Ocean, when the winds are coming from the southwest, and when other air composition qualities are met. The air was only “in baseline” a fraction of the time we were at the station.
We learned so much and are so grateful to the team there for teaching us so much about their work and the science… and the changes happening to our one precious atmosphere.
Note: the southern hemisphere has much cleaner air than the northern. And there’s a lot of stuff floating around in the atmosphere worldwide that is nasty. Of course, climate change and greenhouse gases, and chemicals that are now banned but don’t leave the atmosphere easily..
Hard to reconcile the idealistic nature of this work — sucking in air through tubes high up on the tower and the station’s deck, and distributing it to many many machines to be analyzed and understood, bottled up for the Air Archive in Aspendale, or sent off to scientists for study — and the beautiful coastal cliff top location where it sits with the realities that our atmosphere is much dirtier than we know and it isn’t getting better. So it goes.
Lots of ideas and plans for new work …
thanks @risd1877 Professional Development Fund for funding!
four prints for sale—
I never do this, but the world is upside down. I’m selling these four prints, made from pictures I took in Iceland in 2023. They are all 8.3x11.7”. The first three are digital inkjet prints on matte paper and the fourth is a glossy dye sub print on metal. They are all open edition! and I will be taking orders for threeish weeks, until Sunday, August 10. At that point orders will close and I will print the work and ship it out. Inkjet prints are $150-$200 sliding scale and the dye sub is $350-$400 sliding scale. A portion of whatever I earn will go to an environmental org, still tbd. Prints will likely ship in September. DM or email with any questions or orders or just say hi: [email protected]
22.5x40” 2025
dye sublimation on aluminum
clouds from falmouth mass. usa and cielometer images from woods hole oceanographic institute
thanks to alex kinsella!
✨ Join visiting artist Leah Beeferman (Rhode Island School of Design) and climate scientist Professor Andy Hogg (Director of Australia’s Climate Simulator, ACCESS-NRI), in conversation with Dr Pia Van Gelder (ANU School of Art & Design), convened by Dr Anna Madeleine Raupach.
As the realities of climate change become increasingly urgent, both artists and scientists are grappling with how to make complex environmental data tangible and emotionally compelling. The aesthetic representation of weather and climate is not simply about illustration – it is a way of translating systems and phenomena that are distributed across time and space. How can image, sound, and simulation help us perceive and understand environmental change, and what are the limitations of such representation? This conversation explores a growing field where creative practice meets scientific modelling, asking how aesthetic strategies can contribute to public understanding, environmental narratives, and speculative futures.
👉 Online via Zoom and IRL
Date: Wed 11 June
Time: 5.30-7.00pm
Venue: Theatrette 2.02, Sir Roland Wilson Blg, 120 McCoy Cct, Acton.
Zoom link available.
👉 Book via link in bio
#ArtScienceDesign #ANUArtDesign #ArtAndScience #DesignMeetsScience
#CreativeClimate #ArtAndClimateChange #ANU #CanberraEvents #ANUEvents #ANUSchoolOfArt #CanberraArtScene #ANUCommunity
Art | Science | Design: Aesthetic representation of weather and climate
✨ Join visiting artist Leah Beeferman (Rhode Island School of Design) and climate scientist Professor Andy Hogg (Director of Australia’s Climate Simulator, ACCESS-NRI), in conversation with Dr Pia Van Gelder (ANU School of Art & Design), convened by Dr Anna Madeleine Raupach.
Date: Wed 11 June
Time: 5.30-7.00pm
Venue: Theatrette 2.02, Sir Roland Wilson Blg, 120 McCoy Cct, Acton.
Zoom link available.
👉 Book via link in bio/upcoming events
Presented by the School of Art & Design Computational Culture Lab, this discussion brings together artistic and scientific perspectives on visually representing complex environmental phenomena related to weather and climate.
#ArtScienceDesign #ANUArtDesign #ArtAndScience #DesignMeetsScience
#CreativeClimate #ArtAndClimateChange #ANU #CanberraEvents #ANUEvents #ANUSchoolOfArt #CanberraArtScene #ANUCommunity
I wrote an essay about my recent work and the research trips I made to @hyytialaforeststation / @periferia_exhibition and the Barbados Cloud Observatory for @publicjourn_ca Public Journal Issue 70: The Weather. Out now, link in bio.
