Clouds drift across our skies with a quiet presence—evoking peace, joy, awe, and sometimes unease. Though untouchable, they hold immense power: absorbing, reflecting, and refracting light, clouds can obscure the sun and moon or amplify their intensity. From J.M.W. Turner and John Constable to Georgia O’Keeffe and Gerhard Richter, artists across centuries have sought to capture their shifting temperament.
In a/drift, Brisbane-based artist Claudia Husband presents a new body of work that explores our enduring fascination with clouds. Through mezzotint prints and lithographs, she offers vignettes and glimpses of cloud-like forms, capturing their ephemeral motion within the printed surface. While clouds may appear solitary, they rarely exist alone—often read as an analogy for the human psyche, floating adrift yet inevitably moving toward connection.
Husband is co-founder of Grey Hand Press and a graduate of the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (BFA, 2012). She attended the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in Albuquerque, USA, and earlier this year was awarded her Master of Cultural Materials Conservation from the University of Melbourne.
Image: Claudia Husband, a/drift III (detail), 2025, mezzotint on somerset satin, 56 x 38 cm. Photograph courtesy the artist and Christopher Hagen.
