'TRACE' Duo Exhibition | April 25 - May 31

Next date: Saturday, 30 May 2026 | 11:00 AM to 04:00 PM

APRIL 25 — MAY 31 | DUO EXHIBITION KSENIA SHINKARENKO + NATALIE COOTES

TRACE

— a suspended encounter between painting and vessel; elemental works in pigment and clay, carrying the imprint and atmosphere of their making.

Lander—Se presents TRACE, a duo exhibition bringing together Melbourne painter Ksenia Shinkarenko and Mornington Peninsula/South Gippsland ceramicist Natalie Cootes. Working across natural dye and hand-built clay, both artists engage process-led approaches that allow material to register time, gesture and transformation.

Plant matter, raw pigments, minerals and oxides are pressed, pinched and layered across cloth and vessel, forming surfaces shaped through repetition and duration. Each work holds the imprint of its making — a record of seasonal change, material interaction and accumulated gesture. TRACE considers making as elemental form, where colour, texture and structure emerge through natural processes rather than imposed control.

The exhibition centres around a large textile installation by Shinkarenko that drapes through the gallery, forming a suspended interior landscape for Cootes’ ceramic vessels. The naturally dyed fabric introduces softness and movement within the space, pooling and folding across the floor. Vessels are arranged across a long central plinth, creating a spatial dialogue between painting and vessel that draws attention to the shared language of repetition, imprint and transformation.

Grounded in earthy tonal palettes and minimal forms, TRACE presents a sensory installation shaped through natural materials and gradual process. Together, Shinkarenko and Cootes explore how surfaces can hold memory — not only as narrative, but as physical evidence of time, pressure and material change.

On view from April 25 at Lander—Se, Red Hill, TRACE invites us to look at what remains. Pigment pressed into cloth, minerals worked into clay — each mark a record, each form an accumulation of time and touch. Elemental, unhurried, alive with process.

EXHIBITION OPENING
Join us on Saturday, April 25th, 1—5pm (free entry) Wine by Kerri Greens and complimentary grazing coupes Friends and family are welcome

When

Location

Upcoming: May 23

TRACE: Remnants invites an intimate evening with the exhibition works by Ksenia Shinkarenko and Natalie Cootes — conversation amongst the works, the space alive with painted textile and hand-built ceramic. Set within the exhibition, the dinner offers a slower encounter with the work and a deeper insight into the artists' ways of working.

Lander—Se, 585 Dunns Creek Rd, Red Hill, 3937, View Map

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