It is the everyday—a frame caught while falling. Cropped into a leg mid step, a backyard blurred behind—a moment that becomes a memory. Intimate and undefined.

Lewis Vivian Cosgrave (Ngāti Pūkenga, b.1997) primarily focuses on the experience of the quotidian. His work captures transitory moments—a life found along concrete pavements, in the backseat of a car, in glimpses of inner city gardens, blending 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 our everyday—on the mundanity and transience that surrounds us. Cosgrave is based in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours).

Exhibitions

Seedlings, Group Show, 25 October – 15 November 2025
Having Heard a Glow, Solo Show, 27 September – 18 October 2025
Playground, Group Show, 22 March – 12 April 2025

External Exhibitions

Little Rushes (Strawhouse, 2025)
The Human Tongue is Our Daily Furnace
(Horizons: Emerging Artist Sector, Aotearoa Art Fair, 2025)
Understudy (Play_station, 2025)
Community (Envy6011, 2023)
Wellington City (Envy6011, offsite, 2023)
Cloudspotting (Play_station, 2022)