Exhibition dates: 29 May – 4 July 2026
Exhibition Opening: Saturday 30 May, 5 – 7pm | Artist Talk, 4 – 5pm RSVP HERE
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.
