″My interest in the weather started 20 years ago in Edinburgh,” says Swiss artist Franziska Furter. “It was my first overseas residency, and I was so surprised. You wake up and it’s raining. You have a shower, the sun is shining. You have breakfast, it’s snowing. Then you go out and it’s raining again. I was super happy because it’s not just one thing for the whole day.”

No wonder Furter likes Melbourne, where she is exhibiting a work called Liquid Skies/Gyrwynt in the NGV Triennial, wrapping up this weekend after a blockbuster four months. A massive, multicoloured carpet, it reproduces infra-red satellite photographs of hurricanes, all beauty and danger. Over the carpet she has suspended another work, Haku, in which thousands of tiny glass beads hover in the air like droplets of water. The title comes from the Japanese word for “white” or “pure”, and a Hawaiian word meaning “to braid”.