
Jeremy Gardiner is a graduate of Newcastle University and the Royal College of Art. He exhibits regularly with Paisnel Gallery in St James’s, London and the Belgrave Gallery in St Ives. 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. He lived in the United States for 14 years and taught at MIT’s Media Lab, Pratt Institute of Art and Design in New York and at Bennington College, Vermont. In the UK he has taught at the Royal College of Art and is currently Course Director for Postgraduate studies at Ravensbourne, London. 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. He has had recent exhibitions at Pallant House Gallery, UK and the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City.
Jeremy Gardiner’s artistic excavation of the geology of landscape is shaped both by human activity and forces of nature. He 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.
For several decades I have been exploring the ancient history of the Jurassic Coast in Dorset on long walks, boat rides and flights, forever seeking out new points of view for my landscape painting. This curiosity combined with an adventurous spirit has led me to investigate the geology of other parts of the world, from the volcanic forms of Fernando de Noronha, an archipelago 300 miles off the NE coast of Brazil, to Milos, one of the Cycladian Greek islands.
But it is Dorset that stirs my imagination the most and I am constantly drawn towards it, making new discoveries and finding fresh sources of inspiration as I venture further into unknown territory. The Jurassic Coast is England’s first natural World Heritage Site, a ninety five mile long stretch of coastline running from Orcombe Point in East Devon to Old Harry Rocks in East Dorset. Its geology spans the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, 185 million years of the Earth’s history. Erosion by sea, weather and human activity has resulted in a huge variety of different landforms; cliffs, beaches, landslides, arches and caves, which provide an incredibly rich visual and scientific resource.
My sense of atmosphere and form has been strongly influenced by this natural environment on the coast while my colour palette reflects this connection; sometimes the methods I use for constructing a painting are forced in new directions by a desire to honour specific features in the landscape. By creating distinct layers of colour, my working method involves scouring, building accretions of paint, collaging and sanding down, in an attempt to emulate on the surface of my paintings the effects of geological time on the landscape. I like to combine different features from different locations of the coastline in the same paintings, achieving images that take the viewer on a new exploration of familiar territory, from multiple perspectives.
| Belgrave Gallery | St Ives | UK | 2010 |
| Pallant House Gallery | Chichester | UK | 2010 |
| Campden Gallery | Chipping Campden | UK | 2010 |
| Chelsea Art Museum | New York City | USA | 2009 |
| Paisnel Gallery | London | UK | 2008 |
| Atrium Gallery | Bournemouth University | UK | 2007 |
| Belgrave Gallery | St Ives | UK | 2007 |
| Foss Fine Art | London | UK | 2007 |
| Campden Gallery | Chipping Norton | UK | 2007 |
| Midtsommerfest | Tysvaer | Norway | 2006 |
| 59th Aldeburgh Festival | Foss Fine Art | UK | 2006 |
| Black Swan Arts | Frome | UK | 2006 |
| Gallery 286 | London | UK | 2004 |
| Northcote Gallery | London | UK | 2004 |
| Maltby Gallery | Winchester | UK | 2004 |
| Lighthouse Poole | Centre for the Arts | UK | 2003 |
| Maltby Gallery | Winchester | UK | 2001 |
| Belgrave Gallery | London | UK | 2000 |
| Fine Arts Museum | Long Island | USA | 1991 |
| Centro Cultural Candido Mendes | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | 1990 |
| Museu de Arte Moderna | Sao Paulo | Brazil | 1990 |
| Compton Gallery MIT | Cambridge | USA | 1987 |
| George Sherman Gallery | Boston University | USA | 1985 |
| Galerie 39 | London | UK | 1984 |
| GE Hirst Research Centre | London | UK | 1983 |
| Earthscapes, Geology & Geography | Bridport Arts Centre | UK | 2010 |
| Mapping the Jurassic Coast | Dorset County Museum | UK | 2009 |
| Works on Paper | Campden Gallery | UK | 2009 |
| 157th Autumn Exhibition | Royal West of England Academy | UK | 2009 |
| Salon de Yutaka | Kanazawa | Japan | 2008 |
| Art de Osaka | Osaka | Japan | 2008 |
| Artzone | Kyoto | Japan | 2008 |
| Orie Gallery | Tokyo | Japan | 2008 |
| Gallery Mai | Tokyo | Japan | 2008 |
| Gallery Atos | Okinawa | Japan | 2008 |
| Acostage Gallery | Takamatsu | Japan | 2008 |
| 61st Aldeburgh Festival | Foss Fine Art | UK | 2008 |
| Streaming Museums | Melbourne | Australia | 2008 |
| A Postcard from St Ives | Belgrave Gallery | UK | 2007 |
| Art Loan Collection | Bournemouth University | UK | 2006 |
| Originals, Mall Galleries | London | UK | 2006 |
| Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | London | UK | 2005 |
| Art Loan Collection | Winchester University | UK | 2005 |
| New Media Arts, First Beijing International | Beijing | China | 2004 |
| Works on Paper, Sears Peyton Gallery | New York | USA | 2004 |
| Hunting Art Prize, Royal College of Art | London | UK | 2004 |
| Landscape, Campden Gallery | Stratford | UK | 2003 |
| Peterborough Art Prize | Peterborough Art Gallery | UK | 2003 |
| Laing landscape competition, Mall Galleries | London | UK | 2002 |
| A Pelican in the Wilderness, Holburne Museum | Bath | UK | 2002 |
| Maltby Gallery | Winchester | UK | 2001 |
| Laing landscape competition, Mall Galleries | London | UK | 2001 |
| Art Loan Collection | Bournemouth University | UK | 2001 |
| Belgrave Gallery | London | UK | 2001 |
| The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries | London | UK | 2001 |
| CADE, Historical Museum, Novorsibirsk | Siberia | Russia | 1999 |
| Belloc Lowndes Fine Art | Chicago | USA | 1999 |
| Gamut, Colville Place Gallery | London | UK | 1999 |
| 147TH Autumn Exhibition | Royal West of England Academy | UK | 1999 |
| Landmark, Atrium Gallery | Bournemouth University | UK | 1998 |
| Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | London | UK | 1998 |
| Isle of Purbeck, Silicon Gallery | Philadelphia | USA | 1997 |
| Multimedia Artworks | University of Ghent | Belgium | 1996 |
| ArCade Prints, Brighton University | Brighton | UK | 1995 |
| Nature Morte, Joel Kessler Gallery | Miami | USA | 1994 |
| Virtual Memories, Friends of Photography | San Francisco | USA | 1991 |
| Print 89, Arnolfini Gallery | Bristol | UK | 1989 |
| Fictive Strategies, Squibb Gallery | New York | USA | 1989 |
| Emerging Visions, Tibor de Nagy Gallery | New York | USA | 1988 |
| Summer in the City, Twining Gallery | New York | USA | 1988 |
| A Kiss is just a Kiss, Twining Gallery | New York | USA | 1988 |
| Emerging Expressions, Bronx Museum | New York | USA | 1987 |
| Group Show, Casas Toledo Oosterom | New York | USA | 1987 |
| 42nd Venice Biennale | Venice | Italy | 1986 |
| Tradition & Innovation in Printmaking, Barbican | London | UK | 1986 |
| State of the Art, Twining Gallery | New York | USA | 1985 |
| New England Arts Biennial | University of Amherst | USA | 1985 |
| Emerging Expressions, Bronx Museum of Arts | New York | USA | 1985 |
| Self Portraits, The Photographers Gallery | London | USA | 1985 |
| Electra 83, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville | Paris | France | 1983 |
| Christies Inaugural, Christies Contemporary Art | London | UK | 1983 |
| New Contemporaries, ICA | London | UK | 1982 |
| Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | London | UK | 1981 |
| Artist in Residence Nottingham University | 2010 |
| ACE Grants for the Arts Award | 2010 |
| ACE Research and Development Award | 2008 |
| Awarded Arts and Humanities Research Council grant | 2007 |
| Peterborough Art Prize | 2003 |
| New Forms Grant, Cultural Affairs Council, Florida | 1998 |
| Florida Council on the Arts Fellowship | 1995 |
| Prix Ars Prize, Austria | 1988 |
| New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship | 1987 |
| Harkness Fellowship | 1984 |
| Churchill Fellowship | 1984 |
| Artist in Industry Fellowship | 1979 |
| Jeremy Gardiner’s Temporal Landscapes, Peter Davies | Pallant House Gallery | 2010 |
| Mapping the Jurassic Coast, Fiona Davies | Dorset County Museum | 2009 |
| St Ives, 1975 – 2005: Art Colony in Transition, Peter Davies | St Ives Printing and Publishing Co | 2007 |
| Jurassic Coast, Peter Davies | Black Swan Publishing | 2006 |
| Purbeck Light Years, Christopher Woodward | Lighthouse Publications | 2003 |
| Quiet Waters, Simon Olding | Colville Publishing | 2002 |
| Open to Visitors, Kate Watson-Smyth | The Independent | September 1999 |
| The Isle of Purbeck, A Surreal and Romantic Visit, Iain Burt | CTI Magazine | 1998 |
| Isle of Purbeck, Kirsten Solberg, Volume 29, Number 5 | Leonardo | 1996 |
| Picture Perfect, Alan Rapp | I.D. | November 1994 |
| Varied Approaches of Expatriates, Helen Harrison | New York Times | June 1991 |
| Click, J.Ellen Gerken | North Light Books | 1990 |
| The Complete Printmaker, John Ross | Free Press | 1990 |
| Drawing the line, Katherine Silberger | Village Voice | August 1988 |
| Summer in the City, Ginnie Gardiner | Artspeak | June 1988 |
| Jeremy Gardiner, Marc Mannheimer | Art New England | December 1987 |
| Bronx Museum of the Arts, Vivien Raynor | The New York Times | October 1987 |
| Jeremy Gardiner, Kelly Wise | The Boston Globe | June 1987 |
| Jeremy Gardiner, Tom Elliot | Blitz | July 1986 |
| Heuristic Journeys, from Picasso to Rasta, Liz Finch | Ritz | 1984 |
| Art at Work, Laurence Marks | Observer Magazine | December 1980 |
| A Personal View, Simon Roodhouse | Aspects | 1980 |
| Barclays Bank |
| BNP Paribas, London |
| Bournemouth University Art Collection |
| Davis Polk & Wardwell, Paris |
| Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi, Milan |
| Gaz de France |
| GDF Suez |
| General Electric, London |
| GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited |
| Government Art Collection, London |
| Greenlight Capital |
| Imperial College Art Collection |
| Lawrence Graham LLP |
| LGV |
| NYNEX Corporate Collection, USA |
| Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery |
| Pinsent Masons |
| Rank Xerox |
| Royal National Lifeboat Institution |
| Royal College of Art Collection |
| St Thomas’ Hospital Collection |
| Victoria and Albert Museum |
| Watson Wyatt |
| Zygos |