About

Brogan Bertie (b. 1995, South London) is a painter and artist working from his studio at TKE in Margate. 

Bertie’s art is about people, painting from life in order to offer an intimate and energetic insight into the sitters. Using the physicality of oil paint, Bertie creates rich and textural works that construct an honest and tender portrait of human connection and its complexity. There is no closure, no resolution, no feeling of having gotten to the bottom of something - the hunger for other people stretches before and after any one moment in time. There is a desperation to see people, to know them, to try to grab at their specificities. Bertie’s work speaks to an appetite for connection.

Exhibitions

Current: No Moon Tonight (just the light from other people’s windows), 6 September – 1 November, 2026. Solo Presentation at TKE Studios, curated by Dame Tracey Emin.

Past:

Where is My Mind, 2026. Group Show at Quench, Margate.

Contemporary British Portrait Painters, 2026. Group Show at the Department Store, London.

Ordinary Ghosts, 2026. Group Show with Casey Walsh and Anderson Asteclines for Off Season, Margate.

This is Love, 2026. Group Show at TKE Studios, Margate, curated by Dame Tracey Emin.

Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual, 2026. Group Show at the Mall Galleries, London.

FLUID, 2025. Group Show at The Artist’s Gallery, London. Featuring Joline Kwakkenbos, Sadie Lee, Sarah Jane Moon, Victoria Cantons, Lulu Bennett, ANDI, Miranda Forrester and Poppy Tingay.

Queer Portraits, 2025. Group Show with Tara Tara Li-An and Abi Birkinshaw at Pie Factory, Margate.

TKE Spring Show, 2025. Margate.