Tim Gardner, 'Two Men on a Bus, Moving Through the Landscape', 2006. © Tim Gardner. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York and Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London.

Tim Gardner: New Works

17 January - 15 April 2007
Room 1 Admission free

The catalogue to accompany this exhibition is generously supported by The Canada House Arts Trust.

With thanks to 303 Gallery, New York, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London and Tim Gardner.

Tim Gardner, a young artist (b. 1973) currently living in British Columbia, spent three months in autumn 2005 exploring the National Gallery collection and using the artist's studio at the Gallery.

This exhibition highlighted the paintings he executed as a result of that experience. Gardner works primarily in watercolour and many of his paintings are based on photographs, mostly snapshots, of family, friends, athletes and mountain landscapes.

Unassuming in scale and subject matter, they nonetheless address major issues that have concerned artists for centuries: love, loyalty, bravery, camaraderie, and what it means to be a man.

The New Yorker magazine has described Gardner's work as 'profound', and he has attracted many enthusiastic admirers as a result of successful exhibitions in galleries in New York and London.

This exhibition was part of an expanded National Gallery commitment to contemporary art: to exhibit younger artists early in their careers, as well as the work of more established figures.

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