PAUL WINSTANLEY
Art School 25 (Coventry Immanation), 2014, Oil on Panel, 64X64cm
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Paul Winstanley was born in Manchester in June 1954. He studied painting at Cardiff College of Art from 1973-76 and the Slade from 1976-78.
Schooled in the orthodoxies of abstract Modernism, Winstanley spent a decade after college establishing a new visual language, combining the tenets of minimalism with the pictorialism of photography. His breakthrough showing of the large painting 'Walkway' at the Whitechapel Open in 1989 won him the first prize Unilever Award. He went on to enjoy a year as Kettle's Yard artist in residence in Cambridge, hosted by Churchill College with Newnham College providing the Old Lab in the gardens as a studio. In this supportive environment he created a new body of work shown first at Kettle's Yard and then on tour within the UK. Throughout the 1990's Winstanley developed an array of related imagery of semi-public, post-war interior spaces; of waiting rooms, lounges, TV rooms, walkways and lobbies; creating a meditation on the utility of English modernism and its concurrent political underpinnings. Along with his landscapes viewed from moving vehicles this work culminated first in his1993 show 'Driven Landscapes' at Camden Arts Centre and then in his 1997/98 Art Now show 'Annexe' at Tate, Millbank.
Following a serious road accident and recovery he emerged with a new emphasis on the transience of the interior/exterior relationship, notably in the diaphanous and translucent series of paintings 'Veil' which he pursued intermitantly over a ten year period and of images of modernist architectural interiors with large plate-glass picture windows evoking the sublime. He had a major retrospective of his work at Art Space, Auckland, New Zealand in 2008.
The role of the viewer is central to an understanding of Winstanley's paintings and his occasional use of the figure echoes that active passivity. Engrossed, they watch, look, wait, smoke, phone, text.
In 2013 his photographic project 'Art School' was published by Ridinghouse. Focussing on the empty, tarnished studio they picture a teaching and creative environment on the cusp of existential change. The images became the basis for a new, extended body of work using the art school studio interior as a model from which to explore divergent painterly concerns, from the tropes of Dutch 17th Century interior painting to American mid-century minimalist abstraction. This necessitated a change in practice, painting on wood and aluminium panels instead of stretched linen. This change of materiality has opened up new possibilities, creating new and unexpected lines of thought.
In 2018 Winstanley produced his new book '59 Paintings; In which the artist considers the process of thinking about and making work', an episodic account of his practice and thought processes as seen through the lens of individual paintings (published by Art/Books).
Winstanley has shown regularly in Los Angeles, New York, Dublin, London, Paris and Hamburg. He has work in the collections of Tate (London), MoMA (New York), MoCA (Los Angeles), IMMA (Dublin), The British Library, The New York City Public Library, Southampton City Art Gallery, ACGB, British Council. He lives and works in London.
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2024
Paul Winstanley 1994 -2024, Galleria Six, Milan
2023
The Persistence of the Sublime, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg
2022
My Heart's in the Highlands, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
2020
After the War the Renaissance, 1301PE, Los Angeles
2019
Altered States, Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg
2018
Paul Winstanley, Pilar Serra, Madrid
Paul Winstanley, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2017
Faith After Saenredam And Other Paintings, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
2016
Art School; New Prints and Panel Paintings, Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
2015
Art School, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
2014
Art School, 1301PE, Los Angeles
2013
Art School, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Art School, Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg
2012
Red T Shirt Grey, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
2011
Paul Winstanley, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
2010
Everybody Thinks This Is Nowhere, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Paul Winstanley, 1301PE, Los Angeles
2009
Paul Winstanley, Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg
The Gun Emplacement, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
2008
Threshold, Artspace, Aukland, New Zealand
Paul Winstanley, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
2007
Republic, 1301PE, Los Angeles
2006
Paul Winstanley, Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg
2005
Homeland, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Paul Winstanley, 1301PE, Los Angeles
2004
Paul Winstanley, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury
Paul Winstanley, Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg
2003
Paul Winstanley, Maureen Paley Gallery, London
2002
Paul Winstanley, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Paul Winstanley, 1301PE, Los Angeles
2000
Paul Winstanley, Maureen Paley Gallery, London
Studies, 1301PE, Los Angeles
Nostalgia, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
1999
Institute, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Paul Winstanley, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
1997/98
Annexe, Art Now 12, Tate Gallery, London
1997
Paul Winstanley, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Paul Winstanley, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Paul Winstanley, CRG Gallery, New York
1996
Still, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
1995
Paul Winstanley, CRG Gallery, New York
1994
Paul Winstanley, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Paul Winstanley, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
1993
Driven Landscapes, Camden Arts Centre, London
1992/93
Paul Winstanley, Paintings 1991-2, Kettle's Yard Cambridge; Lancaster Gallery, Coventry; BAC Gallery, London; Plymouth Art Centre, Plymouth.
1979
Paul Winstanley, Riverside Studios, London
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2022
'A Century of the Artist's Studio 1920-2020', Whitechapel Gallery, London
2021
Summer Show, Royal Academy, London
Winter Darkness, 1301PE, Los Angeles
2019
Realitatscheck, Kunstraum, Potsdam
2018
Selected Works, 1301PE, Los Angeles
As You Like It - C'est Comme Vous Voulez, Praz-Delavellade, Los Angeles
Summer Show, Royal Academy, London
2017
Dialogues, Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg
Summer Show, 1301PE, Los Angeles.
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London.
A Certain Kind of Light, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; The Exchange, Penzance.
Varying The Chorus, with Brice Marden, Michael Mazur and Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Geometrics, Andreas Binder Gallery, Munich
New Beginnings, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2016
Intermission, 1301PE, Los Angeles
2015
Conversations, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Aesthetic Harmonies: Whistler in Context, Colby Museum of Art, Maine.
2014
The Unassuming Eye, Sobering Galerie, Paris
Summer Exhibition, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2013
Here We Go, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London
13, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Art And Existence, Esbjerg Kunst Museum, Denmark
Window To The World, Fondation del'Hermitage, Lausanne
Lifelike, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Lifelike, The Blankton Museum of Art, Austin
Under The Grennwood Tree, St Barbe Museum, Lymington
A Space for Contemplation, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2012
Window To The World, Museo Cantonale d'art and Museo d'art, Lugano
Lifelike, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
Lifelike, New Orleans Museum of Art
The Deer, Curated by Eric Troncy, Le Consortium, Dijon
There is a Place, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
2011
UK and EU Contemporary Artists, Galerie Pilar Serra, Madrid
Barrie Cooke, David Godbold, Elizabeth Magill, Stephen McKenna, Paul Winstanley, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Summer Exhibition, Summer Exhibition, London
Artists for Kettle's Yard, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Unscharf, Nach Gerhard Richter, Kunsthalle, Hamburg
2010
Parallax, Paul Winstanley and Peter Rostovsky, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara
Sea Feaver, From Turner to Today, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
High Ideals and Crazy Dreams, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg
Eleven, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Without from Within, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
2009
Terror and the Sublime: Art in an Age of Anxiety, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Conflicting Tales; Subjectivity, Burger Collection, Berlin
Self as Selves, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Mind the Step, 1301PE, Los Angeles
2008
Inside Architecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Editions and Acquisitions, 2008, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Fifty Percent Solitude, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Eight Visions One Dream, Today Art Nuseum, Beijing
2007
I Don't Do Nature, 1301PE, Los Angeles
Radharc, Galway Arts Centre, Galway
2006
Gallery Artsits, Winter Show, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Ghost, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Summer Exhibition, Roayal Academy, London
Gallery Artists, Summer Show, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Shining, Gallery Andreas Binder, Munich
Morandi's Legacy, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Morandi's Legacy, Estorick Collection, London
2005
Almost, Robert Millar Gallery, New York
Flashback, Kunstverien, Freiburg, Germany
2004
John Moores 23 Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Munch Re-Visited, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Blow Up, St Paul's Gallery, Birmingham
2003
Ouvres Recentes, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
4ever Young, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2002
Watery Domestic, The Renaissance Society, University Of Chicago, Chicago
Painting and Illustration, Luckman Galery, California State University, Los Angeles
Eight New Paintings; Barrie Cooke, Felin Egan, Mark Francis, Maureen Gallace, Callum Innes, Elizabeth Magill, Sean Scully, Paul Winstanley, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Painted, Printed and Produced in Great Britain,, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York
Beyond Barbizon, Elias Fine Art, Allston, Massachusetts
Ten Years, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Illumination, Marvelli Gallery, New York
Landscape, British Council Touring Exhibition, Casa Andrade Muricy, Curitiba, Brazil
2001
Melancholy, City Art Gallery, Southampton
Melancholy, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Telling Tales, Narrative Impulses in Recent Art, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
Multiplication, British Council Touring Show to: Romania, Croatia, Turkey, Russia, Estonia, Poland
Landscape, British Council Touring Show, Centro Cultrural del Conde Duque, Madrid
Landscape, British Council Touring Show, Sofia Municipal Gallery, Sofia
Landscape, British Council Touring Show, Museu de Arte Contemporanes de Niterio, Rio de Janeiro
Landscape, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
2000
The Wreck of Hope, Nunnery Gallery, London
Landscape, British Council Touring Show, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
Landscape, British Council Touring Show, House of Artists, Moscow
Landscape, British Council Touring Show, Peter and Paul Fortress, St Petersburg
Landscape, British Council Touring Show, Museum of Modern Art, Rome
1999
Paysages d'artistes, Fondation d'Art Contemporain Guerlin, Les Mesnuls, France
Go Away; Artists and Travel, Royal College of Art, London
Painting Pictures, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Philadelphia
I'm a Virgin, Waiting Room, University of Wolverhampton
Postcards on Photography, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge
1998Postcards on Photogrphy, Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Postcards on Photography, Site Gallery, Sheffield
Postcards on Photography, Camerawork, London
Postcards on Photography, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
Still, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
Made In London, Musea de Electicade, Lisbon
1997
Interior, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
Within These Walls, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 20, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Longing, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
1996
ACE, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London and touring
Inner London, Delphina Gallery, London
1995
Crossroads, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury
Crossroads, Wolsey Gallery, Ipswich
Crossroads, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Brussels
Crossroads, FRAC Basse Normandie, Caen
1994
On Painting, James Hockey Gallery, WSCAD, Farnham
Landescapes, Torino, Italy
1993
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 18, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Strictly Painting, Cubitt Street Gallery, London
Re-Present, Todd Gallery, London
1992
Twelve Stars, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
Twelve Stars, City Art Gallery, Edinburgh
Twelve Stars, Barbican Center, London
The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
British Painters, Harris Museum, Preston
1991
Three Painters; Nicholas May, Nicholas Rule, Paul Winstanley, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
1990
Gallery Artists, Maureen Paley Interim art, London
1989
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 16, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
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Selected Bibliography
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2019
Paul Winstanley; Altered States, Jens Astoff, Kunstforum issue 265, December 2019.
Artists Writing: Paul Winstanley, Paul Carey-Kent, FAD Magazine, 11th September, 2019
2018
59 Paintings; In which the artist considers the process of thinking about and making work. Ben Street, Times Literary Supplement, September 17th, 2018.
2017
Minimalism in the Dutch Golden Age at the Kerlin, Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, 23rd May, 2017
2016
Art School 31, Nathan O'Donnell, published in Response to a Request, 16 October
Watch These Spaces, Anna Coatman, RA Magazine, no 130, Spring 2016
2015
The Califuk issue, Flaunt, no 143
Whistler and the World, Edited by Justin Caan, 288pp, Book
2014
Paul Winstanley; Selected Works. Thisispaper, January 2914
PaulWinstanley Conjures a Reflective Expressiveness at 1301PE, Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, May 24, 2014
Paul Winstanley, KCRW, Art Talk, May 22, 2014
Paul Winstanley, Art School, Thisispaper, January 2014
2013
Paul Winstanley, Art School, Cristin Leach Hughes, The Sunday Times, 1st December, 2013
Paul Winstanley, Art School, Published by Ridinghouse, Essay by Jon Thompson, Interview with Maria Fusco, 288pp, 240 Illustrations, Hardback Book
Paul Winstanley, Galerie Vera Munro, Jens Astoff, Artforum, Artforum.com Critics Picks
2012
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, 192 pp, Catalogue
Paul Winstanley, Kirsten Everberg, Frog, numero 10
2011
Rise; Paul Winstanley, Rebecca Fullylove, Dazed Digital, December 2011
Paul Winstanley, Joseph R Wolin, Time Out New York, October 4,2011
Paul Winstanley, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Barbara Pollack, ARTnews, October 2011
2010
Paul Winstanley, 1301PE, Jan Tumlir, Artforum, December 2010
Paul Winstanley, A Beautifull Viel, L.A. Weekly, October 2010
Everybody Thinks This is Nowhere, Alan Cristea Gallery, Interview between Paul Winstanley and Helen Waters, 40pp Catalogue
Without from Within, Djanogly Art Gallery, Essay by Anne Goodchild, 64pp, Catalogue
Paul Winstanley, Lux, Jens Astoff, Kunstforum, Jan-Feb
2009
Terror and the Sublime, Art In an age of Anxiety, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Essays by Peter Murray and William Laffan, 128pp, Catalgue
Conflicting Tales; Subjectivity, Burger Collection, Edited by Danial Kurjakovic, 228pp, Catalogue
2008
Paul Winstanley: Threshold, Essays by Andrew Renton and Christel Fricke, Published by Clouds and Artspace, Auckland, 149pp, 100 Reproductions,Book
2006
Morandi's Legacy, Influences in British Art, Andrew Lambirth, The Spectator, 29 April
Leer big in den letzen winkel, Jan Wolf, Hamburger Adenblatt, 31 March
Morandi's Legacy, Influences in British Art, Interview Between Paull Coldwell and Paul Winstanley, Estorick Collection, 78pp, Catalogue
2005
Paul Winstanley, Homeland, Luke Clancy, Modern Painters, June 2005
Paul Winstanley, Homeland, Aiden Dunce, Irish Times, 6 April
2004
Space Inveilers, Sue Hubbard, The Independent, 29 October
Paul Winstanley, Jens Astoff, Artforum, Artforum.com, Critics Picks
Blow Up, Flash Art, March 2004
2003
Paul Winstanley, William Feaver, Art News, December 2003
Paul Winstanley, Anne Fielding, Time Out, no 1726, September 2003
Utopia Remembered, Anthony Downey, Contemporary, no51, 2003
2002
Paul Winstanley, Anthony Downey, Contemporary, November 2002
2001
To Infinity and Beyond, Simon Morely, Art Review, February
2000
Paul Winstanley, Sally O Reilly, Time Out, no1587, January 2000
Paul Winstanley, Duncan McLaren, Independent on Sunday, 10 December
Paul Winstanley Archive; Complete Paintings 1989-2000, Maureen Paley Interim Art and 1301PE, 120pp, Book
Landscape, The British Council, 80pp, Catalogue
1999
Paysages d'artistes, Fondation d'art Contemporain, Daniel andFlorende Guerlain, 52pp, Catalogue
Atmosphere, Judicael Lavrador, Le Journal Des Exposition, no 223
Un si Beau Monde, Philippe Dagen, Le Monde, 9 December
Postcards on Photography, Valerie Reardon, Art Monthly, February
From A to B (And Back Again), Royal College of Art, 120pp, Catalogue
1998
Postcards on Photography, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, 144pp, Catalogue
Still, Martin Coomer, Time Out, no 1464
The Freidrich Factor, Simon Morely, Contemporary Visual Arts, Isue 19
Ways of Seeing and the Pleasures of the Visual, Nicholas de Ville, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 18
Paul Winstanley, Galerie Andreas Binder, Justin Hoffman, Artforum, February
Paul Winstanley, Sach Craddock, The Times, 13 January
Paul Winstanley, Tate Gallery, Martin Herbert, Time Out, no 1427
1997
The Lights are Out but There's No One at Home, Which is Just As Well, William Feaver, The Observer, 14 December
Interior, Sue Hubbard, Time Out, no 1421
Moores Scores, William Feaver, The Observer, 9 November
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 20, Walker Art Gallery, Catalogue
Within These Walls, Sarah Greenberg, Blueprint, September
Faszinierende Spiele miy Licht und Leise Tone, Hubert Filsner,Suddeutsche Zeitung, 12 September
Die Macht der Tausend Augen, Brita Sachs, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 20 September
Making an Exhibition of Yourself, Richard Ingleby, Independent on Sunday, 10 August
Diverse Perceptions of Interior Space, Jeremy Melvin, Architects Journal, August
Within These Walls, Kettle's Yard, John Tozer, Art Monthly, September
Condiments of the Season, Laura Cumming, The Observer, 10 August
Within These Walls, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 24pp Catalogue
1996
Made In London, Simmons and Simmons, 64pp Catalogue
Paul Winstanley, Martin Coomer, Time Out, no 1326
Corporate Art Goes Avant-Garde, Lynne McRichie, Financial Times, 22 June
The Many Faces of London, Simon Morrisey, Building Design, 5 April
1995
Art In Review, Cotter, New York Times, 5 May
Crossroads,, Herbert Read Gallery, Gallery, Canterbury, 24pp, Catalogue
1994
On Painting, Part 2, Peter Kinley and Paul Winstanley, Mark Durden Frieze, October
Landescapes, Ex Lanificio Bona, 56pp, Catalgue
Peter Kinley and Paul Winstanley, Simon Morley, Art Monthly, June
The Contemporary Capital, Geraldine Norman, The Independent on Sunday, 6 March
Waiting Tables, David Lillington, Time Out, March 2-9
On Painting, James Hockey Gallery, Essay by Andrew Wilson, 18pp, Catalogue
1993
Plainly a New Fancy, William Feaver, The Observer, 18 April
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 18, Walker Art Gallery, Catalogue
Camden Arts Centre, Sarah Kent, Time Out, April 14-21
Strictly Painting, David Lillington, Time Out, Feb 10-17
What Goes Around Comes Around, Yet Again, William Feaver, The Observer, 18 April
Paul Winstanley, Adrian Searl, Time Out, Feb 3-10
1992
Paul Winstanley, Paintings 1991-92, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Essay by Brandon Taylor, 48pp, Catalogue
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 16, Walker Art gallery, Liverpool, Catalogue
1981
Aspects of Drawing, Christopher Bucklow, Artscribe, no31
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Collections
Arts Council of Great Britain
Bank of America, London
Barclays Bank, London
British Council
British Museum, London
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
European Parliament
Calvin College, Grand Rapids
Central Krankenversicherung, Cologne
Churchill College, Cambridge
Colby Museum of Art, Maine, USA
Fondation Daniel and Florence Guerlin, Paris
Fonds National d'art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris
Government Art Collection, London
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
HSBC, London
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin
Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Rochechouart
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Musee d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne
Musee d'art Moderne de Lisbonne, Sintra, Portugal
New York Public Library
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Red Mansion Foundation, London
Simmons and Simmons, London
Southampton City Art Gallery
SACEM, Neuilly-Seine
Tate, London
UBS, New York
Unilever, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
WWK Allgemeine Versicherung AG, Munich
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