2000
Softback, 32 pages
Publisher: Belgrave Gallery
Dimensions: 190 x 160 mm
Exhibition catalogue produced in 2000 on the occasion of the touring exhibition Ballard Point
Neuhoff Gallery 41 East 57th Street New York NY 10022 USA 4 April – 29 April 2000
Pier Trust Gallery, Pier Approach, Swanage, Dorset BH19 2AW 20 May – 4 June 2000
Belgrave Gallery, 53, England’s Lane, London NW3 4TG 4 July – 16 July 2000
Gardiner starts not with drawings but with a prepared wooden panel on which the entire development of the image takes place. Each one is a relief constructed of enigmatic wooden objects and larger, flat pieces of wood. While Ballard Point is instantly recognisable in the upper part of each panel, about half way down is a densely worked and less easily deciphered still life. These are set within the wooden relief so that we see them as though through a window. Gardiner first constructs this notional window. Then he attaches the small wooden objects and finally he applies many layers of paint which he then scrapes down and overpaints so that the intermingled strata echo the multiplicity of memories that inform the work.