Jeremy Gardiner

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Jeremy Gardiner
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Jeremy Gardiner painting on the Dorset coast
Born
Jeremy Gardiner

(1957-04-26) 26 April 1957 (age 66)
Münster, West Germany
Education Newcastle University,
Royal College of Art
Known for Landscape painting
Notable workPendeen Lighthouse
MovementModern landscape
SpouseVeronica Falcão
Awards The Discerning Eye ING Art Prize (2013)
Website www.jeremygardiner.co.uk

Jeremy Gardiner (born 26 April 1957) is a contemporary landscape painter who has been based in the United Kingdom and the United States. His work has been featured in books. [1] [2] It has also been reviewed in The Boston Globe , [3] Miami Herald , [4] The New York Times , [5] [6] and British newspapers including The Guardian [7] and The Observer . [8] He is represented by the Portland Gallery in London. [9]

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Early life and education

Jeremy Gardiner was born in Münster, Germany. [10] He was educated at Newcastle University, UK (BA Hons in Fine Art , 1975–79) and the Royal College of Art in London (MA in Painting , 1980–83), where he was awarded a John Minton Scholarship. [11]

Work themes

Southforeland Lighthouse, Kent, by Jeremy Gardiner Southforeland Lighthouse, Kent.jpg
Southforeland Lighthouse, Kent, by Jeremy Gardiner

Gardiner seeks to capture the genius loci or a sense of place, with his artworks having been compared with those of Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland. [12] His paintings are the product of a long engagement with coastal landscapes in Britain. [13] He has continued the approach to landscapes of 20th-century St Ives modernist artists such as Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, and John Tunnard. [10] Gardiner's landscape subjects have included locations from the Jurassic Coast, [14] [15] especially in Dorset, and the coastline of Cornwall, [16] in southern England.

Jeremy Gardiner's work Purbeck Light Years used hybrid techniques combining computer animation, painting and drawing, and immersive virtual reality. [17] Gardiner also worked on a project Light Years Coast, a virtual recreation of the Jurassic Coast in Dorset. [18]

Fellowships, grants, and awards

During 1984-86, Gardiner was a US Harkness Fellow in the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. [19] [20] Also in 1984, he was awarded a UK Churchill Fellowship. [11]

Gardiner was the winner of the 2003 Peterborough Art prize for the work Purbeck Light Years. [11] In 2013, he was awarded The Discerning Eye ING Art Prize for the work Pendeen Lighthouse Cornwall. [21]

In 2017, Gardiner was awarded a Senior Fellowship by the UK Higher Education Academy, in 2020 he was awarded an Arts Council England Grant, and in 2022 he was awarded a British Council UK-China Connections through Culture Grant. [11]

Exhibitions

Gardiner's work has been exhibited widely, including: A Panoramic View at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester; Exploring the Elemental at The Nine British Art, [22] St James's, London; Shorelines at St Barbe Museum, Lymington; Drawn to the Coast [23] at the Paisnel Gallery, London; and South by Southwest [24] at The Nine British Art, London.

Artworks by Jeremy Gardiner at the Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum during the 2021 Chengdu Biennale in China Gallery 13 of the Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum (Jeremy Gardiner artworks).jpg
Artworks by Jeremy Gardiner at the Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum during the 2021 Chengdu Biennale in China

In 2021, Gardiner's work was included in the Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum as part of the Chengdu Biennale, China. [25] [26]

Selected solo exhibitions
Selected group exhibitions

Works in collections

Jeremy Gardiner’s paintings are held in international collections in the United Kingdom including Hatton Gallery, Pallant House Gallery, Southampton City Art Gallery, Victoria Art Gallery, [40] and elsewhere. Other collections with his work include BNP Paribas, London; Davis Polk & Wardwell, Paris; Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (Eni), Milan; Government Art Collection, [41] London; Imperial College Art Collection, London; ING Group, Amsterdam; NYNEX Corporate Collection, USA; Pinsent Masons; Royal College of Art Collection, London; [42] Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London. [43]

Academic positions

In parallel with being an artist, Jeremy Gardiner has held academic positions at Birkbeck, University of London, the University of West London, Bath Spa University, the University of Florida, Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, Department of Digital Arts at the Pratt Institute (New York), the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [19] and a full professor position at Ravensbourne University London in east London. [44]

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