British Painter Paul Winstanley in Wellington
British Painter Paul Winstanley in Wellington
Walkway, (2002)
oil on linen, 185x231cm
Courtesy of the artist and Artspace Auckland
Century City1, 2006
oil on linen, 80X103cm
Private collection
Press
Release
For immediate release, 18 April 2008
Vacant
Spaces: Waiting Rooms, Hallways, Corridors…
British
Painter Paul Winstanley in Wellington
City Gallery Wellington is pleased to present British artist Paul Winstanley in a special evening talk on Monday, April 28 at 6pm.
Fresh from the opening of his survey exhibition at
Auckland’s Artpsace, Paul Winstanley: Paintings 1989-2007,
and a solo show in New York, Paul will share insights into
his esteemed work and practice which focuses primarily on
the mystery and intensity of interior spaces.
Paul
Winstanley paints directly from photographs, generally ones
he has taken himself. His work deals with the experience of
looking; the architecture of vacant spaces such as waiting
rooms, lecture halls and never-ending walkways. Described as
“at once methodical and melancholic”, there is a sense
of imposed order in his work as well as an “atmosphere of
abandonment or expectation about these spaces of fleeting
transit or, at best, temporary occupation.”
Born in
Manchester in 1954, Paul Winstanley has been exhibiting
since the late 1970s and over the past decade has had
regular solo exhibitions in London, Paris, Munich and New
York. His one-person exhibition Driven Landscapes was at
Camden Arts Centre in 1993 and Annexe in 1997-98 formed part
of the Tate Gallery's Art Now series. Solo shows were
featured at Vera Munro gallery in Hamburg in 2004 and 2006
and at the Kerlin Gallery Dublin in 2005. Paul has also
participated in many group shows including the Whitechapel
Open and the John Moores Exhibition as well as Made in
London in 1998 at the Musea di Electricade, Lisbon;
Postcards on Photography which toured Britain in 1998-99;
and Landscape, which toured venues in Germany, Russia and
Italy in 2000.
Winstanley’s work is held in major public collections including Tate Modern, British Council, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Fonds National d'art Contemporain (FNAC) in Paris and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. Paul lives and works in London. Auckland’s Artpsace current exhibition, Paul Winstanley: Paintings 1989-2007, includes a series of paintings from a Red Mansion Foundation exchange programme in China. For more information on Paul Winstanley see: www.paulwinstanley.com and www.artspace.org.nz
Paul
Winstanley Artist’s Talk
6pm, 28 April, 2008
City
Gallery Wellington
Civic Square,
Wellington
www.citygallery.org.nz
Admission:
FREE
Pual Winstanley’s talk is presented in partnership with Artspace, Auckland. City Gallery Wellington is managed by the Wellington Museums Trust with major funding support from Wellington City Council.
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