Jeremy Gardiner is a modern British

United Kingdom

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 artist. He was born in Purbeck

Purbeck

Purbeck is a local government district in Dorset, England. The district is named after the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula that forms a large proportion of the district's area. However the district extends significantly further north and west than the traditional boundary of the Isle of Purbeck along...

 and was educated at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

University of Newcastle upon Tyne

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 and the Royal College of Art

Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...

. He is a Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

 and Senior Research Fellow on the AHRC

AHRC

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 funded project Computer Art and Technocultures at Birkbeck and the Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

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. He is a former Harkness Fellow of the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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. He has exhibited in major museums and galleries worldwide and in 1987 received a New York foundation for the Arts Foundation fellowship and in 1988 an honorary mention for his work from Priz Ars Electronica. In 2002 he was awarded a NESTA grant and in 2003 won the Peterborough Art prize for his interactive and immersive virtual artwork ‘Purbeck Light Years’. He was a founding member of the computer graphics department at Pratt Institute of Art and Design in New York

New York

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 and Director of CyberArts

Cyberarts

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 at the New World School of the Arts

New World School of the Arts

New World School of the Arts is a public magnet high school and college in Downtown Miami, Florida with dual-enrollment programs in visual arts, dance, theatre, musical theatre, instrumental music, and vocal music. Both the college and the high school are accredited by the Southern Association of...

 in Miami.

His paintings are renowned for their engagement with the landscape and geology of the South Coast of England, in particular Dorset, and continue the modernist spirit of artists such as John Tunnard

John Tunnard

John Samuel Tunnard was an English Modernist designer and painter. He was the cousin of landscape architect Christopher Tunnard.-Life:...

, Ben Nicholson

Ben Nicholson

Benjamin Lauder "Ben" Nicholson, OM was a British painter of abstract compositions , landscape and still-life.-Background and Training:...

 and Peter Lanyon

Peter Lanyon

Peter Lanyon was a Cornish painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction. He also made constructions, pottery and collage....

. He has an exhibition at Pallant House Gallery

Pallant House Gallery

Pallant House Gallery is an art gallery in Chichester, West Sussex, England. It houses one of the best collections of 20th century British art in the world....

 in Chichester

Chichester

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called 'Jeremy Gardiner: A Panoramic Vision' (13 March - 31 May 2010).

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