Opening Event: Ham Darroch | Caroline Gasteen

Exhibition: 29 May - 4 July 2026
Opening Event: Saturday 30 May, 5-7pm | Artist Talk: 4 - 5pm

Onespace invites you to the opening of Pause for a Human, an exhibition in the Main Gallery by Ham Darroch, and Cut the Line, an exhibition by Caroline Gasteen in the Lounge Gallery.

Ham Darroch | Pause for a Human

In Pause for a Human, Ham Darroch meditates on humanness with an unfaltering sense of curiosity and colour. Darroch occupies the Main Gallery with a series of large scale paintings that are sharply abstracted yet playful; inviting viewers to explore the spaces and currents of colour within the compositions.

These expansive paintings are thoughtfully balanced with vintage bats collected over the years by Darroch. For catalogue essay writer, Yvette Dal Pozzo, these bats “become a contained site where Darroch's interest in everyday ephemera and his painting practice meet in open conversation.” Here, Pause for a Human transforms the gallery space into an expansive site of human inquiry. 

Caroline Gasteen | Cut the Line

Cut the Line sees Caroline Gasteen translate provisional maquettes into a series of expansive oil paintings. Through movement and tonal contrast, the images transform each maquette into autonomous subjects rather than inanimate objects. Using readily available materials, the maquettes register the necessity to keep acting on a human scale under the constraints of daily life—childcare, cost of living, and the conditions for liveable work. 

This looming sense of precarity is brought to life by the two-metre-high painting, Gnawing at the Cord (For Amy), posing a departure from Gasteen’s often small-scale output that is grounded in a sense of utility. Cut the Line describes a practice shaped by constraint, where the impulse to keep going persists despite uncertainty, and where small gestures are set against forces that exceed them.