Twilight Contemporary is delighted to present ‘Kept’, a duo exhibition by Henry Glover and Miya Kosowick, exploring the sconce as a meeting point between contemporary art and design. Working with stoneware, porcelain, Corten steel, bent metal, and charred wood, the artists consider how objects of illumination might reshape our relationship to space, material, and gathering.
The glowing guides that orient us through contemporary life, have become increasingly unreliable. In an age when artificial light promises connection but often delivers isolation, the exhibition returns to the flame as one of the earliest and most enduring sources of light.
Wax candles cast an amber glow through the gallery windows. Offering no certainty, these sconces present light as a means to come together and linger. For Glover, whose practice draws on myth and folklore, his ceramic forms carry the potential of objects that feel both familiar and otherworldly, occupying a space between the functional and the imagined. Kosowick approaches the sconce through an investigation of boundaries between interior and exterior, natural and constructed environments. Her ceramic works sit alongside forms made from yakisugi (charred wood) and Corten steel, a material commonly used to delineate garden boundaries. Reconfigured as sconces, these materials are displaced from their usual contexts, transforming elements associated with architecture, protection, and the outdoors into vessels for candlelight.
The convergence of their practices lies in transformation: the familiar object becomes a site of ambiguity, where function gives way to symbolism and material becomes a means of storytelling. Ceramic, charred wood, and weathering steel carry distinct histories and associations, bringing together the handmade and the industrial, the enduring and the ephemeral. Through these shared forms, Glover and Kosowick explore how objects mediate our relationship to our surroundings, offering a sense of shelter and refuge.
Words by Henry Glover, Miya Kosowick
Wax and flame have featured in both Glover’s and Kosowick’s practices independently in distinct ways. Glover most recently developed the first iteration of his flaming sconces for his solo exhibition One Last Sleep at C.G. Williams Gallery. The exhibition takes the viewer the final moments before being guided to the underworld, drawing on references to Arthurian legend and myth.
Kosowick, meanwhile, has been interested in the temporality of wax and fire, exploring their capacity for transformation. This interest first took shape in 2024 through a commission with The Glenrothes Distillery in Scotland, presented during Art Week Tokyo. There, the candle flames, held within bronze and wood-fired ceramic plates, seemed to narrate a story of their own, while the melting wax traced another, unfolding over time. The vessel that holds a candle becomes can amplify and reveal the light, or conceal and protect it.
Henry Glover (b. Oxford, 1997) is a British artist based in London working between Oil paintings and Ceramics. Glover focuses on quiet often unsaid moments. These shared contemporary experiences are transformed into something transcendental, blending imagery and material with fiction and the artifice.
Recently he completed his Masters in Fine Art at City and Guilds London Art School in 2025, and has exhibited in group shows and internationally, including three solo exhibitions. ‘One last sleep’, C.G Williams Gallery, London (2026), ‘The Knight’s Tour, Backhaus Projects, Berlin (2022), ‘Take Me Somewhere Nice’, Liliya Art Gallery, London (2021).
Miya Kosowick (b. 1998, Prince George, Canada) is a Japanese Canadian artist based in London, United Kingdom. Kosowick’s work explores identity, belonging and the shifting relationship between controlled and natural environments. Drawing on the Japanese philosophical concept of uchi-soto (内外)- meaning “inside” and “outside”- her practice examines how boundaries between interior and exterior spaces, social groups and cultural identities are constructed and negotiated. She is particularly interested in the spaces that exist between such binaries, where ambiguity and transformation can emerge. Working with materials including wax, clay, and industrial materials, Kosowick creates installations in which paintings function as portals to an imagined elsewhere. Sculptural elements and fragments of material histories often coexist within these environments, blurring distinctions between the natural and the constructed.
Kosowick holds a degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of British Columbia and later studied at Chelsea College of Arts, where she began developing an interdisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture and installation. She received the first annual artist commission from The Glenrothes presented at Art Week Tokyo (2024) and has exhibited internationally at SWAB Barcelona (2025), APOC Paris at Est-Galerie (2026).
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