Ornamental/Elemental, an exhibition highlighting selected works from the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery – Toowoomba City Collection, and a children’s art activity from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (The Castle of Tarragindi on Tour) open the 2024 program at Crows Nest Gallery.
The Ornamental/Elemental exhibition, which will be on display until February 4, 2024, features artworks that play with the structure and poetics of ornamentation.
Works in this exhibition celebrate how artists use materials to transform everyday objects and reveal the ornamental as elemental.
This exhibition’s featured artists share an interest in the underlying structure and form of their chosen medium and in the potential of their materials to embellish the surface of their work.
From the subtle geometries of Harley MacBeth’s paintings to the embedded pattern of flowers in Narumi Ii’s vessel, the artists demonstrate that the ornamental is elemental.
All displays in Ornamental/Elemental are selected from the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery – Toowoomba City Collection.
Children and families can participate in fun art-making activities by contemporary Australian artist Natalya Hughes with The Castle of Tarragindi on Tour until February 4.
