JANUARY 3 — 26 | DUO EXHIBITION
EMMA SHEPHERD + THANNIE PHAN

TETHER

— a golden interplay between earth and hand, thread and vessel, material and maker.

Lander—Se presents TETHER — a luminous duo exhibition featuring the woven textiles of Emma Shepherd (Sundance Studio) and the sculptural ceramics of Thannie Phan (Gom Maker). Delicate yet intentional, organic yet meticulously held, their works meet at the intersection of softness and structure; where fibre, clay, and the imprint of the hand remain visibly present.

Grounded in texture, tone, and connection, their practices are united by sun-worn yellows, ochre warmth, and a shared devotion to craft. Across both bodies of work, thread, fibre, and hand-formed clay move between softness and structure — celebrating the tactile language of materials shaped slowly, thoughtfully, and by hand.

Shepherd’s woven forms speak to one of humanity’s oldest technologies—fabric as shelter, warmth, and necessity—translated through a contemporary sensitivity to place, colour, and fibre. Working from her Flinders studio, she draws on the Bauhaus ethos where art, craft, and design exist without hierarchy, allowing landscape-collected materials and natural tones to gently guide each work.

Phan’s ceramic vessels emerge through an equally patient process. Built coil by coil, her delicate porcelain forms deliberately retain the marks of their making: pinched edges, hand-drawn impressions, subtle shifts in glaze texture. In resisting the erasure of labour, Phan allows the work to record time, touch, and environment. TETHER draws chromatically and emotionally from memories of Hải Phòng—where weathered yellows, fading paint, and filtered sunlight are distilled into glaze and form.

Historically, weaving and ceramics have long been bound—ceramic warp weights among the few archaeological traces left behind to signal early textile-making. In TETHER, this lineage quietly resurfaces. Artworks that carry memory, beauty, and meaning; functional origins evolve into vessels of care, attention, and cultural continuity.