Renee Cosgrave
Renee Cosgrave. Image courtesy of Christo Crocker.Gertrude Studio Artist
2025 - 2027
Renee Cosgrave is a visual artist based in Naarm, from Aotearoa. She is Māori (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāi Tūhoe), Irish and Scottish. Her practice explores painting, drawing, raranga (Māori weaving) and collaboration. Cosgrave’s works reflect on her Tūrangawaewae (homebase) and culture through colour, pattern and gesture.
Her recent exhibitions include Much like cooking a meal (with Merryn Lloyd), La Trobe Art Institute (2025) Pink Heat, Haydens Gallery, (2023), Serotonin, Futures Gallery (2022), Whanaunga (with Aunty Dorothy Nilson), Blak Dot Gallery (2022), Ahi Mahana (with Kori Miles), Sutton Projects (2019), False Feeling, Fern Tree Community Centre, presented by Constance ARI (2019), The Hunch (with Merryn Lloyd), Incinerator Gallery, (2016).
In 2019 Cosgrave was awarded the MECCA M-Power NGV Arts Mentoring Grant. She’s been a finalist in the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize (2022) and the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery (2021), and received a City of Melbourne Public Art Commission (2012). She’s represented by Haydens Gallery, Naarm Melbourne.
Her recent exhibitions include Much like cooking a meal (with Merryn Lloyd), La Trobe Art Institute (2025) Pink Heat, Haydens Gallery, (2023), Serotonin, Futures Gallery (2022), Whanaunga (with Aunty Dorothy Nilson), Blak Dot Gallery (2022), Ahi Mahana (with Kori Miles), Sutton Projects (2019), False Feeling, Fern Tree Community Centre, presented by Constance ARI (2019), The Hunch (with Merryn Lloyd), Incinerator Gallery, (2016).
In 2019 Cosgrave was awarded the MECCA M-Power NGV Arts Mentoring Grant. She’s been a finalist in the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize (2022) and the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery (2021), and received a City of Melbourne Public Art Commission (2012). She’s represented by Haydens Gallery, Naarm Melbourne.