‘Tell the Village’ presents a selection of new paintings continuing the use of the domestic setting and the architecture of the artist’s home as a vehicle for his practice.

‘There is a twist in the new works, a deeper concern. I see these images as a collection of warnings, like an unelected town crier. It is through this cosy prism of our family life that the works are encroached with the threat we all feel from surveillance, political uncertainties and a hyperattentive internet scape. The new paintings are lettered with interruptions, and sub narratives. Offering the viewer a menu or a network of imagery mimicking the way we read information online’ – Brian Harte.

Brian Harte balances energetic painterly abstraction with tightly composed interiors, drawing conceptual inspiration from various cultural figures such as Franz Kafka, Philip Guston, The Brothers Quay, and Albert Oehlen. The foundation of family life provides a familiar starting point, yet the works quickly evolve into…