Having Heard a Glow – Opening

Here, everything was aglow - and everything was connected by a web of invisible thread… and this morning, a new strand - fine, but still perceptible - pulled lightly at her heels…

Lewis Vivian Cosgrave (Ngāti Pūkenga, b.1997) is a Te-Whanganui-a-Tara based artist primarily focused on experiences of the quotidian. Captured transitory moments—life found along concrete pavements, in the backseat of a car, in glimpses of inner city gardens.

His work blends painting, drawing and photographic practices. Through a refined sense of surface and delicate use of colour, Cosgrave brings an intentional reticence to his work—altering collected and personal archive imagery through saturation, erasure and muddying. Arriving eventually to a space that grants us momentary reflection on the ordinary rhythms of daily life—rhythms of universal experience but uniquely personal interpretation.

A short story by Lucy Clara accompanies the show.

Kindly sponsored by Duncan’s Brewing, Almighty and The Garden Table. The exhibition runs from 27 September – 18 October 2025 at Twentysix Gallery.

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