Opening Event: Teho Ropeyarn | KONSTANTINA

Onespace invites you to our final opening for 2025, for Middle World: every change a continuation, every season a story, an exhibition in the Main Gallery by Teho Ropeyarn and Mudang Butbut, an exhibition in the Lounge Gallery by Konstantina.

Exhibition: 12 – 20 December 2025 + 12 – 24 January 2026
Opening Event: Saturday 13 December 5 – 7pm | Artist Talk, 4 – 5pm with Jocelyn Flynn

MAIN GALLERY | Middle World: Every change a continuation, every season a story

Carving his love for Country, the exhibition Middle World: Every change a continuation, every season a story sees Teho Ropeyarn illustrate the transient seasons of Cape York. With organic design, Ropeyarn draws on the interface of cultural memory and time to traverse the landscape in its wet, dry, and burnt form.

Essay writer, Shonae Hobson states that, “Middle World is a spiritual metaphor that speaks to how First Nations people understand and interact with Country. The exhibition is deeply rooted in themes of cultural memory, connection to place, and the intimate, interwoven stories that are passed down by family and community. In Middle World, Ropeyarn draws from his childhood memories of travelling across the Peninsula Development Road (PDR) in Cape York. Stretching an expansive 571 kilometres from Lakeland to the tip of Australia, the PDR remains one of Australia’s last great wilderness tracks.”

LOUNGE GALLERY | Mudang Butbut

Onespace proudly presents Konstantina’s Mudang Butbut in the Lounge Gallery, beautifully closing our exhibition program for the year. This body of acrylic paintings on linen explores trees as metaphors for the living heart – repositories of memory, connection, and resilience. Through her vibrant mark-making, Konstantina translates the language of tree-growth into a visual meditation on identity, sovereignty, and belonging. Each work becomes a living document,  painting traces of the artist’s personal and cultural histories while reflecting universal stories of endurance and renewal for First Nations people. Mudang Butbut invites viewers to reflect on the invisible threads that bind ancestry, land, and the human heart through the enduring resilience of trees.