Small Object Spaces: Between Form
SOS @ Metro Arts | 26 June - 19 July 2026
Artist: Marisa Culpo
Medium: Textiles & Ceramics
Location: Window Gallery, Metro Arts, 97 Boundary St, West End QLD 4101
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Small Object Spaces
Centered around intimacy, tactility and the quiet presence of everyday materials, artisan X 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.
First Iteration
Between Form
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.
Artist
Marisa Culpo
Marisa Culpo’s practice is grounded in experimentation, with a focus on process, materiality and the evolving function of art. Her work investigates the relationship between medium and meaning, exploring how materials influence perception, expression and interpretation. Through an intuitive and exploratory approach to making, she challenges conventional boundaries of form, line and structure, allowing
materials to guide the development of each work.
Working across textiles and ceramics, Marisa emphasises surface, pattern and the handmade, foregrounding the tactile and sensory qualities of her materials. Her interdisciplinary practice reflects an ongoing interest in craft traditions, material play and sculptural form. Through layering, construction and repetition, her works explore the intersection of ornament, abstraction and object-making. Marisa is a graduate of the Queensland College of Art and currently works as a Visual Arts Educator at TAFE Queensland.
Exhibition Catalogue
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Image Credits
Where Forms Bloom, 2026, Marisa Culpo. Wheel thrown stoneware with glaze, Linen, felt, wood and cotton thread. 35x20cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
