BROGAN BERTIE
No moon tonight (just the light from other people's windows)
6 September – 1 November 2026

Preview: Saturday 6 September 2026, 6-8pm
TKE Studios, 99 Victoria Road, Margate

Painted from life, Brogan Bertie’s portraits in NO MOON TONIGHT (Just the light from other people’s windows) are full of fast brushstrokes, flicking paint, an urgency that reveals a painfully human desperation to capture a moment where every mark made measures the moment passing.

Family, loved ones and acquaintances make up this show, exposing the same truth: Bertie’s desperation for connection, alongside a deep hunger for and investment in people—something beautiful, insatiable, and obsessive.

ABOUT BROGAN Brogan Bertie (b. 1995, South London) is a painter based in Margate. He graduated from London College of Communication in 2019 with a BA (Hons) in Illustration and Visual Media, then worked in freelance illustration and animation before moving to Margate to train in leatherwork with Cope Studio.

Bertie paints from life. His portraits are intimate and energetic, built from thick, textural oil paint that gets at the complexity of human connection without smoothing it over.

Recent group exhibitions include Works on Paper, Quench Gallery (2024); Claude Cahun: Beneath This Mask, The Beaney (2023); and Y'all Better Quiet Down, Leslie Lohman Museum (2019).