Brian Harte hails from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 Zephyr and Chlori, Form Gallery, Cork
2003 U-Boat, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel
2003 Onus, Origin Gallery, Dublin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 Atlantic Crossing, Catherine Hammond Gallery, Glengarriff
2003 Holier than thou art, Origin Gallery, Dublin
2003 Lovit Gallery, Cork
AWARDS
2001 Bewleys Ireland�Purchase prize award for drawing
2001 Vanguard Gallery, Cork�Purchase prize for painting
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bank of Ireland, Irish Contemporary Art Society, Office of Public Works, University College Cork
EDUCATION
2002 BA 1st honours, Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork
‘A light touch but a serious intent characterises Brian Harte's eight new works. Harte graduated from the CCAD in 2001, and his work continues its dramatic evolution, from bright empty landscapes to metaphysical meditations. The contrast of scale sets up a fruitful tension: tiny images are drawn, painted and collaged on to small areas, surrounded by big flat areas of neutral-coloured paint. Witty, cartoon-like images - bicycles, balloons, bowler hats, the Sacred Heart, palm trees and a dog - some drawn, some collaged, are interspersed with printed lettering, scumbling and drips. Circus Tricks, an increase in silliness (Parts 1 - 3) takes this to extremes, with large sectors of black, grey or beige paint surrounding small, intensely worked areas. The artist as businessman (somewhere in France), The optimist and Home in the sun, are smaller, but stronger. All share an air of benign bemusement, capturing a fresh reaction to the world out there, leaving plenty of empty space for meditation around the images.’
Alannah Hopkin
Brian Harte: New Paintings, FORM Gallery, Cork, May/June 2004
Article reproduced from CIRCA 109, Autumn 2004, p.79
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