Lot 32

Suite Gallery, Auckland 2021
The Collection of Richard Frolich, Adelaide

Richard Lewer: You don't have to Wake up Fighting Every Day, Suite Gallery, Auckland, 10 November - 4 December 2021

"This latest suite of works is no exception, embodying Lewer's interest in sites and settings that exist at a juncture or threshold between happenings. What is taking place here? What will happen next? The equivocacy of his paintings obscures any clear answer. Lewer's veneer of normalcy is coloured by the fantastical; the promise of a reckoning, a confrontation, a disaster or phenomenon shifting beneath the surface of otherwise prosaic scenes. Whichever interpretation the viewer finds themselves entertaining, there is a sense of anticipation embedded in each piece, lending to an air of uncertainty and tension that has become all too familiar in the era of covid-19." (excerpt, exhibition statement)

© Richard Lewer, 2026