Todd Robinson & Justin Trendall

Vestiges & Vignettes

02 - 27 June 2026

Vestiges & Vignettes is an exhibition of works by Justin Trendall and Todd Robinson. It includes a series of works produced by each artist.

In this, their second collaborative show at Void_Melbourne,  Justin Trendall and Todd Robinson have once again used a shared interest in textiles , applied arts, and historical consciousness as a bridge between their practices.

And once again it is the material difference between the mediums they use that provides the exhibition with its primary axis: the patinated bronze and raw aluminium casts of clothing and accessories that form the core of Robinson’s practice contrast and resonate with the ephemeral materiality of Trendall’s screen-printed fabric works. This time, however, the rigid symmetry of their previous hang has been softened by the inclusion of a more eclectic range of pieces. In this iteration, the works move away from a simple division based on authorship toward a more constellational approach, forming a series of couplings that allow individual pieces to enter into discrete conversations with one another.

Despite this change in the way the show presents as a whole, much continues to resonate conceptually with their earlier exhibition. Once again, it is fabric — both as a material and as a vehicle for cultural expression — that forms the key reference point for their practices and the works on display.

For Robinson, garments operate as sculptural traces or physical imprints of bodies, labour, and lived experience. Through the casting process, clothing becomes a material index of personal and cultural history, oscillating between legibility and illegibility. Holes, gaps, seams, and fragmentary elements are deliberately retained and emphasised, allowing absence, wear, and fault to remain visible within the work. Trendall’s fabric works similarly engage with processes of accumulation, repetition, and surface, using printed textiles to evoke shifting relationships between memory, pattern, and cultural transmission.

Together, the works in Vestiges & Vignettes consider fabric not simply as material, but as a carrier of history: something capable of holding traces of use, memory, identity, and time.