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Anna Gardiner was born in London in 1966. She received a BTEC Diploma distinction at the Chelsea School of Art in 1988 and completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at Brighton Polytechnic in 1991, before receiving her Diploma at the Royal Academy Schools in 1994. That year she won First Prize in the Natwest 90’s Prize for Art. Gardiner lived and worked in New York between 2000 and 2003, and is now based in London.
She has been represented by Art First since 1994, where she has had regular solo exhibitions, and has participated in group shows such as Translations, (2006), the Post Card Project (2007 onwards) as well as Art Fairs in London.
Gardiner’s subject matter encompasses people of all ages and backgrounds. Her characters are not specific portraits, but are powerful essays in narrative and psychology, sometimes with acutely observed surroundings or landscape fragments, always delivered with sympathy and painterly intelligence.
In 2008 Anna Gardiner won the New English Arts Club Cecil Jospe Prize for Painting.
In 2009 she was a prizewinner for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, with the work Top Knots, (oil on linen, 137 x 117 cm). The 2009 prize was sponsored by Linklaters and it champions representational painting, promoting the skill of draughtsmanship.
