Jeremy Gardiner
Jeremy Gardiner painting on theDorset coast
Born	Jeremy Gardiner (1957-04-26)26 April 1957 (age 67) Münster,West Germany
Education	Newcastle University, Royal College of Art
Known for	Landscape painting
Notable work	Pendeen Lighthouse
Movement	Modern landscape
Spouse	Veronica 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 theUnited Kingdom and theUnited States. His work has been featured in books.^[1][2] It has also been reviewed inThe Boston Globe,^[3]Miami Herald,^[4]The New York Times,^[5][6] and British newspapers includingThe Guardian^[7] andThe Observer.^[8] He is represented by thePortland Gallery inLondon.^[9]

Jeremy Gardiner was born inMünster,Germany.^[10] He was educated atNewcastle University, UK (BA Hons inFine Art, 1975–79) and theRoyal College of Art inLondon (MA inPainting, 1980–83), where he was awarded aJohn Minton Scholarship.^[11]

Gardiner seeks to capture the environmental processes that shape the surface of the earth and his vision of landscape reflects thegenius loci or sense of place of his subjects.^[12] His artworks have been compared with those ofPaul Nash andGraham Sutherland.^[13] His paintings are the product of a long engagement with coastal landscapes in Britain.^[14] He has continued the approach to landscapes of 20th-centurySt Ives modernist artists such asPeter Lanyon,Ben Nicholson, andJohn Tunnard.^[10] Gardiner's landscape subjects have included locations from theJurassic Coast,^[15][16] especially inDorset, and the coastline ofCornwall,^[17] in southernEngland.

Jeremy Gardiner's workPurbeck Light Years used hybrid techniques combiningcomputer animation, painting and drawing, andimmersive virtual reality.^[18] Gardiner also worked on a projectLight Years Coast, a virtual recreation of theJurassic Coast inDorset.^[19]

During 1984-86, Gardiner was a USHarkness Fellow in theMIT Media Lab at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in theUnited States.^[20][21] Also in 1984, he was awarded a UKChurchill Fellowship.^[11]

Gardiner was the winner of the 2003 Peterborough Art prize for the workPurbeck Light Years.^[11] In 2013, he was awardedThe Discerning Eye ING Art Prize for the workPendeen Lighthouse Cornwall.^[22]

In 2017, Gardiner was awarded a Senior Fellowship by the UKHigher Education Academy, in 2020 he was awarded anArts Council England Grant, and in 2022 he was awarded aBritish Council UK-China Connections through Culture Grant.^[11]

Gardiner's work has been exhibited widely, including:A Panoramic View at thePallant House Gallery inChichester;Exploring the Elemental atThe Nine British Art,^[23]St James's, London;Shorelines atSt Barbe Museum,Lymington;Drawn to the Coast^[24] at thePaisnel Gallery, London; andSouth by Southwest^[25] atThe Nine British Art, London.

In 2021, Gardiner's work was included in theChengdu Tianfu Art Museum as part of theChengdu Biennale, China.^[26][27]

Selected solo exhibitions

• 2013:Unfolding Landscape,Kings Place Gallery, London, UK^[28]
• 2013:Jeremy Gardiner,ING, City of London, UK^[29]
• 2015:Jurassic Coast,Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK^[30]
• 2016:Pillars of Light,The Nine British Art, London, UK^[31][32]
• 2018:Geology of Landscape, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester, UK^[33][34]
• 2019:Tintagel to Lulworth Cove,The Nine British Art, London, UK^[35][36]
• 2020:South by Southwest,St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, UK^[37]
• 2022:Contraband, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester, UK^[38]
• 2024:Harbours and Havens,Portland Gallery, London, UK^[39]
• 2024:Turning the Tide, The Sherborne, Dorset, UK^[40]
• 2024:Concrete Abstraction, Shanxi Contemporary Art Museum, Taiyuan, China^[41]

Selected group exhibitions

• 1986:42nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy^[42]
• 2010:Earthscapes, Geology and Geography, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon, UK^[43]
• 2013:TheING Discerning Eye 2013 Exhibition,Mall Galleries, London, UK (prizewinner)^[44]
• 2015–16:Facing History,Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK^[45]
• 2017:Capture the Castle, British Artists and the Castle,Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK^[46]
• 2019:The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition,Mall Galleries, London, UK^[47]
• 2021–22:Superfusion,Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China^[27]
• 2022:Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water,Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK^[48]
• 2024:Dorset Pavilion,60th Venice Biennale, Italy^[49]
• 2024:Artists in Purbeck,Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, UK^[50]

Jeremy Gardiner’s paintings are held in international collections in the United Kingdom includingHatton Gallery,Pallant House Gallery,Southampton City Art Gallery,Victoria Art Gallery,^[51] and elsewhere. Other collections with his work includeBNP Paribas, London; Davis Polk & Wardwell, Paris;Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (Eni), Milan;Government Art Collection,^[52] London;Imperial College Art Collection, London;ING Group, Amsterdam;NYNEX Corporate Collection, USA;Pinsent Masons;Royal College of Art Collection, London;^[53]Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London.^[54]

In parallel with being an artist, Jeremy Gardiner has held academic positions atBirkbeck, University of London, theUniversity of West London,Bath Spa University, theUniversity of Florida,Printmaking at theRoyal College of Art, Department ofDigital Arts at thePratt Institute (New York), theMedia Lab at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology,^[20] and a full professor position atRavensbourne University London in east London.^[55]

• Baron; Collins, Ian; Varley, William; Davies, Peter; Payne, Christiana; Martin, Simon (2013).The Art of Jeremy Gardiner: Unfolding Landscape.Lund Humphries.ISBN 978-1-84822-100-0.OCLC 802295307.
• Gardiner, Jeremy (2016).Pillars of Light. London:Paisnel Gallery.ISBN 978-0993174643.
• Gardiner, Jeremy; Lambirth, Andrew; Payne, Christana; LeGrove, Judith; Marshall, Steve (2020).South by Southwest: The Coast Revealed. Bristol:Sansom & Company,Redcliffe Press.ISBN 978-1-911408-43-7.

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