HOURS
Thursday 11-5
Friday 11-5
Saturday 11-4

Understudy

30/01/2025 - 22/01/2025

Lewis Vivian Cosgrave and Elijah Molloy-Wolt


Understudy invites us to reflect on a role shaped by its own waiting. On the periphery, it suggests an unsettling sense of unrealised potential, an ambivalence, or even a quiet tension. Lewis Vivian Cosgrave and Elijah Molloy-Wolt present a new body of work that engages with the understudy within visual culture, examining how the image is shaped by both presence and absence within their respective practices.

Curated by Jamie R H

Lewis Vivian Cosgrave (Ngāti Pūkenga, b.1997) is a Te Whanganui-a-Tara based artist primarily focused on painting and drawing practices. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from Massey University in 2024. Recent exhibitions include; Cloudspotting (Play_station, 2022), Wellington City (Envy6011, offsite, 2023), Coil (offsite, 2023), Community (Envy6011, 2023).

Elijah Molloy-Wolt (b. 2001) is an Ōtautahi/Kerikeri-based artist whose practice focuses on photographing the everyday objects made outside of intellectual theory and recontextualising their roles in present space-time. He graduated from the University of Canterbury in 2023 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in sculpture. Recent exhibitions include Song of Solomon; A Response to Ralph Hotere and Cilla McQueen (Satellite2, 2024) and You can see an end in the fields, and I was about as muddy as I'd ever been, should it be that I leave this place then I would (Ilam Campus Gallery, 2023).

Poster design by Harris Wilson
Sponsored by Parrotdog
With support from Creative New Zealand

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