Jeremy Gardiner (born 26 April 1957) is a contemporary landscape painter who has been based in the

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and the

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. His work has been featured in books. It has also been reviewed in ''

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'', and British newspapers including ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Early life and education

Jeremy Gardiner was born in

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. He was educated at Newcastle University, UK (BA Hons in ''

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'', 1975–79) and the

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(MA in ''

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'', 1980–83), where he was awarded a John Minton Scholarship.

Work themes

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 Graham Vivian Sutherland (24 August 1903 – 17 February 1980) was a prolific English artist. Notable for his paintings of abstract landscapes and for his portraits of public figures, Sutherland also worked in other media, including printmaking ...

. His paintings are the product of a long engagement with coastal landscapes in Britain. He has continued the approach to landscapes of 20th-century St Ives modernist artists such as

Peter Lanyon George Peter Lanyon (8 February 1918 – 31 August 1964) was a British painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction. Lanyon was one of the most important artists to emerge in post-war Britain. Despite his early death at the ag ...

Ben Nicholson Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscape and still-life. Background and training Nicholson was born on 10 April 1894 in De ...

, and

John Tunnard John Samuel Tunnard (7 May 1900 – 12 December 1971) was an English Modernist designer and painter. He was the cousin of landscape architect Christopher Tunnard. Life Tunnard was born in Sandy, Bedfordshire, and educated at Charterhouse Sc ...

. Gardiner's landscape subjects have included locations from the

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, especially in

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, and the coastline of

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, in southern

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. Jeremy Gardiner's work ''Purbeck Light Years'' used hybrid techniques combining computer animation, painting and drawing, and

immersive virtual reality Immersion into virtual reality (VR) is a perception of being physically present in a non-physical world. The perception is created by surrounding the user of the VR system in images, sound or other stimuli that provide an engrossing total enviro ...

. Gardiner also worked on a project ''Light Years Coast'', a virtual recreation of the

Fellowships, grants, and awards

During 1984-86, Gardiner was a US

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in the

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at the

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in the

. Also in 1984, he was awarded a UK

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. Gardiner was the winner of the 2003 Peterborough Art prize for the work ''Purbeck Light Years''. In 2013, he was awarded '' The Discerning Eye ING Art Prize'' for the work ''Pendeen Lighthouse Cornwall''. In 2017, Gardiner was awarded a Senior Fellowship by the UK

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, in 2020 he was awarded an Arts Council England Grant, and in 2022 he was awarded a

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UK-China Connections through Culture Grant.

Exhibitions

Gardiner's work has been exhibited widely, including: ''A Panoramic View'' at the Pallant House Gallery in

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; ''Exploring the Elemental'' at

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, St James's, London; ''Shorelines'' at

St Barbe Museum St Barbe Museum + Art Gallery is a local museum and art gallery in Lymington, Hampshire, England. Enclosed in the building is a small cafe called 'The Old School Cafe', a gift shop, multi-use room named 'The Mac Carthy Room', a museum showcasi ...

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; ''Drawn to the Coast'' at the

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, London; and ''South by Southwest'' at

, London. In 2021, Gardiner's work was included in the

Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum ( zh, 成都市天府美术馆) is a contemporary art museum in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Overview The museum is located within the Tianfu Art Park in the Jinniu District of Chengdu. It opened in the park, along with the n ...

as part of the Chengdu Biennale, China. ;Selected solo exhibitions *2013: ''Unfolding Landscape'', Kings Place Gallery, London, UK *2013: ''Jeremy Gardiner'',

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, City of London, UK *2015: ''Jurassic Coast'',

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, Bath, UK *2016: ''Pillars of Light'',

, London, UK *2018: ''Geology of Landscape'', Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester, UK *2019: ''Tintagel to Lulworth Cove'',

, London, UK *2020: ''South by Southwest'',

St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery St Barbe Museum + Art Gallery is a local museum and art gallery in Lymington, Hampshire, England. Enclosed in the building is a small cafe called 'The Old School Cafe', a gift shop, multi-use room named 'The Mac Carthy Room', a museum showcas ...

, Lymington, UK *2022: ''Contraband'', Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester, UK ;Selected group exhibitions *1986: ''

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'', Venice, Italy *2010: ''Earthscapes, Geology and Geography'', Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon, UK *2015–16: ''Facing History'',

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, London, UK *2021–22: ''Superfusion'', Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China

Works in collections

Jeremy Gardiner’s paintings are held in international collections in the United Kingdom including

Hatton Gallery The Hatton Gallery is Newcastle University's art gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is based in the University's Fine Art Building. The Hatton Gallery briefly closed in February 2016 for a £3.8 million redevelopment and reopened i ...

, Pallant House Gallery,

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, and elsewhere. Other collections with his work include BNP Paribas, London; Davis Polk & Wardwell, Paris; Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (Eni), Milan;

Government Art Collection The Government Art Collection (GAC) is the collection of artworks owned by the UK government and administered by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The GAC's artworks are used to decorate major government buildings in t ...

, London; Imperial College Art Collection, London;

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, Amsterdam;

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Corporate Collection, USA;

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;

Collection, London;

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(V&A), London.

Academic positions

In parallel with being an artist, Jeremy Gardiner has held academic positions at Birkbeck, University of London, the

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, the

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, Printmaking at the

, Department of

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at the Pratt Institute (New York), the Media Lab at the

, and a full professor position at

Ravensbourne University London Ravensbourne University London (formerly Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication) is a digital media and design university, with vocational courses in fashion, television and broadcasting, interactive product design, architecture an ...

in east London.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gardiner, Jeremy 1957 births Living people People from Münster Alumni of Newcastle University Alumni of the Royal College of Art 20th-century English painters 20th-century English male artists English male painters 21st-century English painters 21st-century English male artists English landscape painters British digital artists Academics of Birkbeck, University of London Academics of the University of West London Academics of Bath Spa University University of Florida faculty Academics of the Royal College of Art Pratt Institute faculty MIT School of Architecture and Planning faculty Academics of Ravensbourne University London