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Paul Winstanley was born in 1954 in Manchester. He trained at the Slade School of Fine Art 1976-78, and then at Cardiff College of Art. From 1991-1992 he was the Churchill College Cambridge / Kettles Yard Artist in Residence. He currently lives and works in London.
Winstanley's typical choice of subject matter - landscapes, deserted passages, lobbies and walkways, empty college TV lounges and anonymous interview rooms - are generally rendered in a muted palette reminiscent of a blurred black-and-white snapshot and they acknowledge the centrality of the photographic image in contemporary life.
He has had numerous solo exhibitions in London, Paris, Munich, Hamburg, New York, Los Angeles and Dublin, including Annexe, in 1997-98, which formed part of the Tate Gallery's Art Now series. In 2008, there was a major retrospective of his work, Paul Winstanley , Survey, 1989-2007 at Artspace in Aukland, New Zealand. His work is represented in several public and private collections, including those of the Tate Gallery, the British Council, the European Parliament, the New York City Public Library and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. For more information, visit the artist's own website: www.paulwinstanley.com