1301PE Gallery

For over two decades Winstanley has challenged our way of seeing. His work confronts a crisis in

painting, engaging with photography his pictures deliberately confuse painting’s ontology. His blurred

images actually welcome memory and invite reflection.

places built in a time of hope for a future of social order and prosperity. These walkways, waiting rooms,

utopia and, yet, they are part of our cultural and emotional heritage in a post-modern world. Winstanley

contemporary world.

visit to China. The notion of art and travel has been a rite of passage for centuries, standardized by

artists such as William Turner who embarked upon the 'Grand Tour' of Europe in the mid-1800’s. Without

the usual frames of reference the sense of being an outsider is heightened. Experiences become

fragmentary and non hierarchical. For Winstanley a corner of the hotel room is as important as a view

across the mountains. The images collected become the raw subject material and in the subsequent

process of painting, image and memory are conflated. Whether this is a reflection of a place visited or a

reflection of the artist is a question almost impossible to answer. However, Winstanley emphasizes that

wedged within the space of this dilemma is art!

In 2005, Catherine Kinley, former senior curator at the Tate invited Winstanley to participate in the

exchange program "Building Bridges". Winstanley worked and lectured at the Central Academy of Fine Art

exhibition in Beijing opening fall of 2008.

exhibitions include Roche Court, the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin and Gallerie Munro, Hamburg. His work is

represented in numerous public and private collections, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the

Tate Gallery, the British Council, the European Parliament, the New York City Public Library and the

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.