Paul Winstanley: Utility

Paul Winstanley Utility 21 February – 4 April, 2026 Opening Saturday 21 February, 5-7pm 1301PE is pleased to announce its ninth solo exhibition with acclaimed British painter Paul Winstanley entitled Utility . For the past four decades, Winstanley's paintings have investigated vacant spaces, the commonplace, and the dystopic, and, more fundamentally, painting's ability to transform these familiar and occasionally melancholic landscapes into the sublime. "Reality can often seem dismal and lacklustre compared with images of it. Pictures of all sorts mythologize reality, enlarge it, give it meaning. " – Paul Winstanley In Utility , Winstanley's new paintings continue or return to familiar themes: the veiled window view onto nature, the empty lobby, the graffitied subterranean pedestrian walkway. These empty interiors feel suspended in time. They are waiting; calmly yet insistently questioning how images, spaces, and meaning are produced.