About
This first iteration of Small Object Spaces features Brisbane-based artist Marisa Culpo’s distinctive small-scale pieces interweaving hard and soft materials.
Between Form explores the relationship between textile and ceramic forms, examining how contemporary craft techniques shift between function, ornament and sculpture. Ceramic vessels rise like columns or pillars, animated by projecting forms that create movement, rhythm and visual play across the surface. Resting on hand-fabricated textile plinths, both geometric and bulbous, the supports move beyond a passive role, asserting their own sculptural presence through surface, softness and form.
Combining ceramics and textiles, the works offer a tactile and sensory experience that reflects on the decorative and ornamental qualities of handmade processes. Hand stitching, historically tied to labour, utility and domestic tradition, is recontextualised as a symbolic decorative gesture. The exhibition considers changing values surrounding craft within contemporary society, presenting objects that move beyond function to encourage slow observation, contemplation and material engagement.
“Centered around intimacy, tactility and the quiet presence of everyday materials, Small Object Spaces brings together Queensland based artists working across craft and design-based practices. Small scale invites us to slow down looking where crafted detail and process hold focus. In this first iteration at Metro Arts with West End’s layered cultural context, the works reflects on memory, emotion and material sensitivity inviting audiences to consider how meaning can be held, handled and felt through carefully made forms.” – Anna Hanks, Emerging Curator.
About Small Object Spaces
Centered around intimacy, tactility and the quiet presence of everyday materials, artisan & Metro Arts’ small object exhibition series brings together Queensland based artists working across textiles, ceramics and object based practices. Small scale invites us to slow down looking where crafted detail and process hold focus. Within West End’s layered cultural context, the works reflects on memory, emotion and material sensitivity inviting audiences to consider how meaning can be held, handled and felt through carefully made forms.
