3 Elements illustrated the potential for collaboration across artforms and between artists working from contrasting cultures and traditions with the arts. For more than 15 years, the three artists involved in this exhibition developed a professional relationship and had actively demonstrated their commitment to cultural exchange and the promotion of their artforms internationally through exhibitions, exchange and promotional activity. This project took the level of exchange between these three artists into direct collaboration and the exploration of cross-cultural exchange.

The exhibition broadly appealed to audiences as it presented cross-cultural and cross-artform collaboration, and also presented a re-examination of traditional craft practices within the context of contemporary art practice.