MrsRebecca Beardmore

Atmospheric Thresholds: Interference and Image Instability is a new research project developing a body of photographic and print‑based work in conjunction with Cloud Studies, a four‑person exhibition at PhotoAccess, Canberra (2026). The project extends my sustained research into the material and perceptual languages of photo‑printmaking, advancing this inquiry through a focused investigation of interference patterns, halftone, moiré, and CMYK separation generated using meteorological data.

The research examines how non‑perceptual atmospheric data, including cloud cover and humidity, can be translated into visual systems that both generate and destabilise legibility. By using this data to determine screen angles, frequency, and colour structures, the work positions print as a site where scientific abstraction becomes perceptually unstable, revealing thresholds between visibility and concealment. Clouds are approached not as representational motifs but as dynamic systems whose behaviour parallels the generative logic of moiré: misalignment, interference, and continual transformation.

Framed within an interdisciplinary exhibition context, the project examines print-based photographic systems as modes of visual knowledge production. It contributes a rigorous, materially grounded, print-led methodology to emerging research at the intersection of contemporary printmaking, data translation, and climate-related imaging.