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Anna Gardiner was born in London in 1966. After completing her BA at Brighton Polytechnic (1988 - 1991) she went on to receive her Diploma (RAS) at the Royal Academy School, London (1994). That same year she won First Prize in the Natwest 90's Prize for Art. For some years she made work and took up residency in New York, now her home and studio are both in London.
Gardiner has had regular solo exhibitions here at Art First and with us in New York since her acclaimed degree show. The paintings are to be found in important private and corporate collections internationally.
Her subject matter encompasses people of all ages and backgrounds, her characters are not specific portraits but derivations. These are powerful essays in narrative and psychology, sometimes with acutely observed surroundings or landscape fragments, delivered with constant sympathy and painterly intelligence.
