John Vincent is predominantly a Digital Artist working with video and audio. His work ranges from short experimental films to video and audio installations. Experimentation with digital media has lead to further exploration of his interest in technology and the interplay of analogue and digital media often manifesting in surreal and dreamlike imagery and sound.
John Vincent is predominantly a Digital Artist working with video and audio. His work ranges from short experimental films to video and audio installations. Experimentation with digital media has lead to further exploration of his interest in technology and the interplay of analogue and digital media often manifesting in surreal and dreamlike imagery and sound.
The subject matter of Vincent’s work is often informed by local history and is usually sourced from archives and other research or a personal geographical relationship. Alongside this are notions of a contemporary suburban Gothic with elements of horror that touches on science fiction and time travel with a distinctly British feel. These ideas have led to the exploration and representation of eerie atmospheric interpretations of everyday life.
Missing or hidden elements within scenes often convey a sense of mystery by alluding to events that have already occurred (or are about to). This can involve the concealment of the identities of characters within the frame, by the interaction of characters with the inanimate objects that surround them or by the total absence of characters with only the objects or architecture that remain.
Vincent has received a number of commissions for digital work over the last few years resulting in some exciting collaborations and research based work.
ARTIST CV
EDUCATION
2002 - 2004 - MA Fine Art - University of East London
1996 - 1999 - BA (hons) Fine Art - Middlesex University
COMMISSIONS & RESIDENCIES
2021 'Electric Medway', SparkedEcho, Chatham/Online, Medway
2020 'Cloud 9' Residency: 'Barriers and Glimpses', Eastcheap Projects, Letchworth Garden City
2020 'Electric Medway', SparkedEcho, Chatham/Online, Medway
2016 'Alternative Letchworth Past & Present', Broadway Gallery, Letchworth
2014 'Vision Of Utopia' Public Programme: 'Letchworth: A Dystopian Vision', Letchworth Heritage Foundation/Digswell Arts Trust
2013 Digswell Arts Digital Commission
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 'A Garden Futuricity', Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City
2015 'SPOOKY’, Digswell Arts, Fenners, Letchworth Garden City
2013 ‘A No Place Vacation’, Westminster Reference Library, London
2011 'Oblivion', Westminster Reference Library, London
2009 'With No Hope Of Heaven', The Firestation Arts Centre, Windsor
2007 'Cuts', Fondazione Patrizio Patelli, Locarno, Switzerland
2006 'A Glass Darkening', (PHOTOGRAPHY), Phoenix Arts, Leicester City Gallery
2006 'O Have You Seen The Devle', The Residence Gallery, London
AWARDS
2012-16 Digswell Arts Fellowship, Letchworth Garden City
2011 Creekside Open Prize Winner, APT Gallery, London
2001 Apthorp Prize 2001 Award Winner, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2021 'The Letchworth Open', Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City
2020 'Private View', Eastcheap Projects, Letchworth Garden City
2019 'Garden Gasp!' - Art Licks Weekend 2019: 'Interdependence', ASC Gallery, London
2019 Eastcheap Open Studios & Project Space Exhibition, Letchworth Garden City
2019 Creekside Open 2019 (Selected by Sacha Craddock), APT Gallery, London
2019 'Suffragette Stories: Yesterday and Tomorrow', The Cloisters, Letchworth Garden City
2018 'Paper Cuts', Saatchi Gallery, London
2018 'Video Art Film Club', Leyden Gallery, London
2018 'Unity Muse', Letchworth Community Museum
2018 'Pop Up Art Exhibition', The Cloisters, Letchworth Garden City
2017 'The Garden City Postcard Project', Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City
2016 'Alternative Letchworth Past & Present', Broadway Gallery/Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation
2014 'The Longest Day', Digswell Arts, Fenners Project Space, Letchworth Garden City
2013 ‘sogno o son desto ?’, Casa Cavalier Pellanda, Biasca, Switzerland
2013 'Timeline', Digswell Arts, Fenners Project Space, Letchworth Garden City
2012 Fenners Fellows Autumn Show & Open Studio, Letchworth Garden City
2012 ‘Cambridge Artworks Open 2012’, Artspace, Cambridge
2011 'settesale per setteartisti', Casa Cavalier Pellanda Biasca, Switzerland
2011 Creekside Open 2011 (Selected by Dexter Dalwood), APT Gallery, London
2011 Last Friday Shorts, Artist Talk with Q & A, TAP/Old Water Works, Southend
2010 Last Friday Shorts, TAP/Old Water Works, Southend
2009 'Gaze & Body' Screening, ROTORELIEFS, Vibe Bar, Brick Lane, London
2009 PROJECTS Screening, Another Roadside Attraction, The Griffin, London
2009 'Shorts', Norwich Arts Centre
2008 '11 UNTITLED', Troubadour Art Gallery, London
2007 'La Collezione', Fondazione Patrizio Patelli, Locarno, Switzerland
2006 'Future First History Last', The Residence Gallery, Hackney, London
2005 'Painting Film: A Multimedia Group Show', Swarm at Lounge Gallery, London
2005 'Dream Room Creation 05', Magdeburg, Germany
2005 'The Housewarming', The Residence Gallery, Hackney, London
2005 'City Intrigue', Signatures Gallery, Duke Street St James, London
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