Full Description
Providing a comprehensive assessment of Jeremy Gardiner's career to date, this monograph, the first of its kind, explains how this distinctive artist has taken the exploratory landscape vision of mid-century St Ives modernists like Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon and John Tunnard into a new post-millennial era.
Gardiner's unique geological interpretation of landscape not only describes the current lie of the land but portrays it as a complex outcome of natural processes over vast periods of time. While indebted to British and American modernism, Gardiner's new conceptual rigour and technical repertoire is informed by science, geomorphology, new technologies and direct physical engagement with ancient landscapes.
Following a distinguished international teaching career, based in Britain and the United States, Gardiner's landscape subjects have included geographically varied locations from the Jurassic Coast in his native Dorset and the rugged Atlantic seaboard of Cornwall, to the jagged volcanic topographies of the Brazilian oceanic islands and the Lake District.
Including essays from leading art writers, this book provides an insight into the career of one of Britain's most innovative contemporary landscape artists.
Contents
Contents: Foreword, Wendy Baron; In the Beginning: Deep Mining in Dorset, Ian Collins; Making it New: What Lies Beneath, William Varley; Beyond St Ives: A New Landscape Vision, Peter Davies; Landscape in Four Dimensions: Gardiner and the British Tradition, Christiana Payne; The Process of Finding Out: On Jeremy Gardiner's Working Methods, Simon Martin; Notes; Bibliography; Chronology; Select Solo and Group Exhibitions; Collections; Photographic Credits; Index.
