2022
Softback, 90 pages
Publisher: Candida Stevens Gallery
Dimensions: 150 x 210 mm
Exhibition catalogue produced in 2022 on the occasion of the exhibition Contraband at Candida Stevens Gallery, 12 Northgate, Chichester, Sussex PO19 1BA
5 March – 1 April 2022
‘Every time I paint the southwest coast,’ says Jeremy Gardiner, ‘it’s from a new viewpoint.’ The paintings brought together under the title of Contraband explore the coasts of southern England in relation to their long-standing and notorious connection with smuggling.
Tremendous glamour attaches to the myth of the smugglers of the Georgian era as sturdy independent locals, flouting authority with gallantry and gaiety. But the violent reality was of wholesale corruption, terrorism and murder. These were wild times, and Jeremy Gardiner’s coast was a wild and remote region.
