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Jeremy Gardiner painting Hartland Point lighthouse, Devon plein air, photo © Veronica Falcão

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“In Gardiner’s paintings we find the same sensation as when walking among mountains – of man’s staggering insignificance, and the consequent sense of liberation at being so small and so transitory an episode in the greater scheme of things.”     

Andrew Lambirth

 

Jeremy Gardiner’s artistic excavation of the geology of landscape is shaped both by human activity and by the forces of nature. Gardiner interprets, through his painting and printmaking, a variety of landscapes that contain the marks and secrets of their own distant formation, giving them a unique, contemporary depth and beauty. His artistic exploration has taken him from the Jurassic Coast of Dorset to the rugged coast of Cornwall, the Oceanic islands of Brazil, the arid beauty of the island of Milos in Greece and more recently the Lake District and its numerous waterfalls.

Gardiner’s spatially probing and texturally explicit pictures creatively transform the lessons learnt from pioneering modern British landscape painters such as John Tunnard, Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon and the American artist Richard Diebenkorn.

Jeremy Gardiner is a graduate of Newcastle University and the Royal College of Art. He exhibits regularly with The Nine British Art gallery in St James’s, London. His paintings have been exhibited in Europe, the USA, South America, Japan, Australia and China. He has won numerous awards throughout his career including a Churchill Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a Harkness Fellowship. Gardiner’s paintings are represented in public and corporate collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Government Art Collection, BNP Paribas, Pincent Masons and Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi.

In 2013 Gardiner was awarded the prestigious Discerning Eye ING Art prize for Pendeen, the first painting in a series that would evolve into Pillars of Light, his sellout exhibition which took place in September, 2016 at the Paisnel Gallery, St James’s, London. His most recent exhibitions include Drawn to the Coast in 2017, and Tintagel to Lulworth plus Sussex Landscapes in 2019. South by Southwest, a touring museum show cut short by the pandemic, will be seen at The Nine British Art, St James’s, London in October 2020.

2022 

Contraband,  Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester

2020 

South by Southwest, The Nine British Art, St James’s, London

South by Southwest, St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington

2019 

Tintagel to Lulworth Cove, The Nine British Art, St James’s, London

2018 

Geology of Landscape, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester

2017 

Drawn to the Coast, The Nine British Art, St James’s, London

2016

Pillars of Light, The Nine British Art, St James’s, London

2015

Jeremy Gardiner, Jurassic Coast, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath

2014

Jeremy Gardiner, ING, City of London

2013

Jeremy Gardiner, Intaglio Monoprints, Pratt Gallery, Pratt Institute of Art and Design, Brooklyn, NY

Cornish Monoprints, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives

Exploring the Elemental, The Nine British Art, St James’s, London

Unfolding Landscape, Kings Place Gallery, London

Jeremy Gardiner, University of Northumbria Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Jeremy Gardiner, Monoprints, Level 39, 1 Canada Water, London

2010

A Panoramic View, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

Light Years, Jurassic Coast, Lighthouse, Poole Centre for the Arts

Atlantic Edge, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives

Jeremy Gardiner, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden

2008

The Coast Revisited, The Nine British Art, St James’s, London

2007

Arvor, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives

Atrium Gallery, Bournemouth University

Foss Fine Art, London

Along the Coast, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden

2006

59th Aldeburgh Festival, Foss Fine Art

Midtsommerfest, Tysvaer, Norway

Jurassic Coast, Black Swan Arts, Frome, Somerset

2004

Archipelago, Gallery 286, London

Northcote Gallery, London

Maltby Gallery, Winchester

2003

Purbeck Light Years, Lighthouse, Poole Centre for the Arts

2001

Maltby Gallery, Winchester

2000

Ballard Point, Belgrave Gallery, London

1991

Fine Arts Museum of Long Island

1989

Centro Cultural Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro

Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo

1987

Compton Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1985

George Sherman Gallery, Boston University

1984

Galerie 39, London

1983

Heuristic Journeys, General Electric, Hirst Research Centre, London

1980

Parnham House, Dorset

2022

Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water, November 2022 – April 2023, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

A Murmuration, 19 – 22 May, Candid Arts Trust Gallery, UCL, London

2021

Superfusion, 6 November – 1 August 2022, Chengdu Biennale, China

Unsettling Landscapes, 11 September – 8 January 2022, St Barbes Museum, Hampshire

Concrete Castles, 27 July – 4 December 2021, Bodmin Keep Army Museum, Cornwall

St Ives, Modern British and Contemporary, June – July, The Nine British Art, London

Selected Work, July – September, Linley, London

Art on a Postcard – June auction, Hepatitis C Trust, London

Drawing on Dorset, 22 – 30 May, Glebe Gallery, Shaftesbury

2020

Secret Postcard, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

 2019

Sussex Landscapes, Manor Place, Chilgrove and Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester

Twenty Stations of the Dorset Coast – Lyme Regis to Old Harry Rocks, Sladers Yard, Bridport, Dorset

Three x Nine, The Nine British Art, St James’s, London

Drawn to Dorset: Fifty Drawings, Fine Foundation Gallery, Swanage

Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London

Radiance, Sladers Yard, Dorset

Secret, Royal College of Art

Present Day, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester

2018

Coast, St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire

Secret, Royal College of Art, London

Impressions on Paper, David Simon Gallery, Bath

2017

Coastal Connections, The Otter Gallery, University of Chichester

Capture the Castle, British Artists and the Castle, Southampton City Art Gallery

Secret, Royal College of Art, London

2016

Facing History, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Shorelines, Artists on the South Coast, St Barbe Museum

Secret, Royal College of Art, London

2015

Nature, Politics and Science, DLI Museum, Durham

ING The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London

2014

The Newcastle Connection, University of Northumbria Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Songs of Nature, Foss Fine Art, London

Ways of Looking, Aldeburgh Gallery, Aldeburgh

2013

ING The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London

Mapping the Way, Walford Mill Crafts, Dorset

Haysom Quarry, Purbeck Art Weeks, Dorset

Summer Show, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

2012

The Art Stable, Dorset

Coast Unearthed, Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset

Intuition and Ingenuity, Phoenix Square, Leicester

2010

Works on Paper, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden

3D2D, Edinburgh Printmakers, Scotland

Earthscapes, Geology + Geography, Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset (touring exhibition)

105th Annual exhibition, Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath

2009

Imaginalis, Chelsea Art Museum, New York City

Mapping the Coast, Dorset County Museum (touring exhibition)

157th Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2008

Salon de Yutaka, Kanazawa, Japan

Art de Art, Osaka, Japan

Artzone, Kyoto, Japan

Orie Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Gallery Mai, Tokyo, Japan

Gallery Atos, Okinawa, Japan

Acostage Gallery, Takamatsu, Japan

61st Aldeburgh Festival

Streaming Museums, Federal Plaza, Melbourne, Australia

2007

A Postcard from St Ives, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

St Ives, Thompson’s Gallery, London

2006

59th Aldeburgh Festival

Art Loan Collection, Bournemouth University

Ancient landscapes, Midtsommerfest, Tysvaer, Norway

Time Passes, Renscombe Farm, Worth Matravers, Dorset

Originals, Mall Galleries, London

2005

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

Art Loan Collection, Winchester University

2004

New Media Arts, First Beijing International Exhibition, China

Works on Paper, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York

Hunting Art Prize, Royal College of Art, London

2003

Landscape, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden

Peterborough Art Prize, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery

Digital Terrains, Deluxe Gallery, London

2002

Laing Landscape Competition, Mall Galleries, London

Quiet Waters, Poole Study Gallery

A Pelican in the Wilderness, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath

ISEA, Nagoya, Japan

2001

Maltby Gallery, Winchester

Laing Landscape Competition, Mall Galleries, London

Art Loan Collection, Bournemouth University

Belgrave Gallery, London

The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London

2000

Neuhoff Gallery, New York City

1999

CADE, Historical Museum, Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia

Belloc Lowndes Fine Art, Chicago

Gamut, Colville Place Gallery, London

147th Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

1998

Landmark, Atrium Gallery, Bournemouth University

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

1997

Isle of Purbeck, Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia

1996

Digital Salon, Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York

Multimedia Artworks, University of Ghent, Belgium

1995

ArCade Prints, Brighton University

1994

Nature Morte, Joel Kessler Gallery, Miami

1991

Virtual Memories, Friends of Photography, San Francisco

1989

Print 89, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

Fictive Strategies, Squibb Gallery, New York

1988

Emerging Visions, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

Summer in the City, Twining Gallery, New York

A Kiss is just a Kiss, Twining Gallery, New York

Cleveland Gallery, Cleveland (touring exhibition)

Prix Ars Electronica, Austria

1987

Emerging Expressions, Bronx Museum, New York

Casas Toledo Oosterom, New York

HighTech/High Touch in Printmaking, Pratt Institute Gallery, New York

1986

42nd Venice Biennale, Italy

Tradition & Innovation in Printmaking, Barbican, London

Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut

Louisville Art Gallery, Kentucky

1985

State of the Art, Twining Gallery, New York

Major Works, New England Arts Biennial, University of Amherst, Massachusetts

Emerging Expressions, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

Self Portraits, The Photographers Gallery, London

Digicon, Burnaby Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Arts Festival, University of Nova Scotia, Canada

1983

Electra 83, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

The Pick of New Graduate Art, Christies, London

1982

New Contemporaries, ICA, London

Pictures for Schools Exhibition, National Museum of Wales

Picture Loan Scheme, Ceolofrith Art Centre, Sunderland

1981

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

Metropolis, Royal Festival Hall, London

Unicorn Trust, Morley Gallery, London

1978

The Northern Art Exhibition, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead (touring exhibition)

Student Drawing, Park Square Gallery, Leeds

Collections Featuring Jeremy Gardiner Works

Barclays Wealth Management, Poole

BNP Paribas, London

Bournemouth University Art Collection, Bournemouth

Centrebridge, London

Cleary Gottlieb, London

Davis Polk & Wardwell, Paris

Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi, Milan

Gaz de France, London

GDF Suez, London

General Electric, London

GlaxoSmithKline, London

Goodwin Proctor, London

Government Art Collection, London

Greenlight Capital, London

Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Imperial College Art Collection, London

ING, London

Lawrence Graham LLP, London

LGV, London

NYNEX Corporate Collection, USA

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Peterborough

Peter Taylor and Associates, London

Pinsent Masons, London

Rank Xerox, London

Rathbones, London

Royal College of Art Collection, London

Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Poole

St Thomas’ Hospital Collection, London

Swindon Museum Art Gallery

Tudor Captial, London

University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Watso Wyatt, London

2022

British Council UK-China Connections Through Culture Grant

2020

Arts Council England Grant

2017

Senior Fellowship, Higher Education Academy

2013

First Prize, ING Discerning Eye, for the painting Pendeen Lighthouse

2010

Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Award

Artist in Residence Nottingham University

2008

Arts Council England Research and Development Award

2007

Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant

2003

Peterborough Art Prize

2002

National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts Grant

1998

New Forms Grant, Cultural Affairs Council, Florida

1995

Florida Council on the Arts Fellowship

1988

Prix Ars Prize, Austria

1987

New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship

1985

Major Works Grant, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities

1984

Harkness Fellowship

Churchill Fellowship

1981

John Minton Scholarship, Royal College of Art

1979

Yorkshire Arts, Artist in Industry Fellowship

1978

Midland Bank Drawing Prize

Hatton Scholarship, Newcastle University

1977

John Christie scholarship, Newcastle University

Northern Arts Exhibition Award

Angulo, Sandie, ‘Grants Reward the Creative Struggle’, Miami Herald, 17 August 1995

Authers, Kate ‘Bath Lives’ Bath Life, 23 January 2015

Baker, Robin, Designing the Future, Thames & Hudson, 1993

Baker, Robin, Designing the Future, Thames & Hudson, 1993

Brompton, Sally, ‘Young Masters’, Daily Mail, 13 October 1975

Burt, Iain, ‘The Isle of Purbeck, A Very Surreal and Romantic Visit’, CTI Magazine, 1998

Collins, Ian, ‘Jurassic Portrait’, Dorset Magazine, June 2013

Darwent, Charles, exh.cat. essay, ‘Jeremy Gardiner: Atlantic Edge, From St Agnes to the Lizard’, Atlantic Edge, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, 2010

Davies, Peter ‘ Jeremy Gardiner: Jurassic Coast’ Evolver, January 2015

Davies, Peter, exh. cat. essay ‘After Tunnard: Jeremy Gardiner’s Temporal Landscapes’, A Panoramic View, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 2010

Davies, Peter, exh. cat. essay, ‘Arvor – Cornish Coast’, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, 2007

Davies, Peter, ‘St Ives, 1975–2005: Art Colony in Transition’, St Ives Printing & Publishing Co., 2007

Davies, Peter, ‘Jurassic Coast’, Black Swan Publishing, 2006

Doyle, Jessica, ‘Diary: Jeremy Gardiner, Jurassic Coast’, House and Garden magazine, February 2015

East, Ben, ‘Prelude to a Storm, Lynmouth Foreland Lighthouse’, Devon Life, November 2016

East, Ben, ‘Gaze, Pendeen Lighthouse’, Cornwall Life, November 2016

Elliot, Tom, ‘Jeremy Gardiner’, Blitz, July 1986

Finch, Liz, ‘Heuristic Journeys, from Picasso to Rasta’, Ritz, May 1984

Franklin, Charles, ‘Pillars of Light, Lighthouses of the South West’, The Association of Lighthouse Keepers magazine, Winter 2016

Gardiner, Ginnie, ‘Summer in the City’, Artspeak, June 1988

Garlake, Margaret, exh. cat. essay, ‘Jeremy Gardiner: The Ballard Point Paintings’, Ballard Point, Belgrave Gallery, London, 2000

Gerken, J. Ellen, ‘Click’, North Light Books, 1990

Hansford, Christopher, ‘Inspired by a Jurassic Landscape,’ Bath Chronicle, 13 January 2006

Harrison, Helen, ‘Varied Approaches of Expatriates’, New York Times, 9 June 1991

Hodge, Susie, ‘Layers of Time and Meaning’, The Artist magazine, November 2018

Jones, Jonathan, ‘Facing History’, The Guardian, 25 July 2015

Kerlow, Isaac, exh. cat. essay, ‘Time Passes, Listen, Time Passes’, Purbeck Light Years, Lighthouse, Poole Centre for the Arts, Poole, 2003

Lucy, Sue, ‘Taking the Long View’, The Bath Magazine, January 2015

Mannheimer, Marc, ‘Jeremy Gardiner’, Art New England, December 1987

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McCready, Georgette, ‘Taking the Long View’ The Bath Magazine, January 2015

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Miles, Jeremy, ‘The Constant Gardiner’, Daily Echo, 13 March 2007

Miles, Jeremy, ‘Lighting up Lighthouse’, Daily Echo, 4 October 2003

Miles, Jeremy, ‘Celebrating Art in Dorset’, Daily Echo, 15 May 1998

Olding, Simon, ‘Quiet Waters’, Colville Publishing, 2002

Packer, William, exh. cat. essay, ‘Along the Dorset Coast’, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, 2007

Pill, Steve, ‘Mapping the Coast’ Artists and Illustrators, February 2015

Powell, Anna, ‘Arts and Culture’ Bridport Times, June 2019

Purdon, James, ‘Jeremy Gardiner: Jurassic Coast at the Victoria Art Gallery’ Apollo, 5 February 2015

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Raynor, Vivien, ‘Bronx Museum of the Arts’, New York Times, 25 October 1987

Robinson, Fiona, exh. cat. essay, ‘Mapping the Jurassic Coast’, Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, 2009

Roodhouse, Simon, ‘A Personal View’, Aspects, Autumn 1980

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Rowland, Iona, ‘Twenty Years of ING Discerning Eye Partnership’ Aesthetica, 15 November 2018

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Solberg, Kirsten, ‘Isle of Purbeck’, Leonardo, vol. 29, no. 5, 1996

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Woodward, Christopher, exh. cat. essay, ‘The Ruins of Corfe Castle’, Purbeck Light Years, Lighthouse, Poole Centre for the Arts, Poole, 6 September – 15 November 2003

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