ABOUT

ARTIST STATEMENT

John Vincent is an artist and filmmaker based in Letchworth Garden City. His work moves across photography, video, digital media, and painting, using each form to process the textures of contemporary life creating images shaped by place, memory, and events or fragments that remain.

His visual language grows out of suburbia and the edges around it — its histories, its overlooked corners, and imagined futures. Vincent’s projects frequently draw on notions of the Gothic, folding in elements of horror, science fiction, and disruption to time to create narratives that appear familiar whilst feeling slightly out of sync with the real world.

In his most recent digital work, Vincent references Hal Fosters "The Real" - where the indescribable (through art or language) is revealed by making use of the dissonance between this apparent familiarity of an image/location source and the distance created through distortions and breaks within the final image.

He has exhibited in the UK and internationally, with commissions from organisations including Electric Medway, Broadway Gallery, and Eastcheap Projects. Through collaborative and research‑driven work, Vincent continues to utilise technology and lived experience to build narratives and spatial environments that invite viewers into worlds that feel close, but not entirely stable.

ABOUT THIS WEBSITE

This website acts as a portfolio of new and experimental work as well as an archive of previous work by the artist.

Website Last Updated: 21st June 2026

All images, video and text (c) 2026 John Vincent unless otherwise stated.

This website has been developed by the artist.

ARTIST CV

This CV contains some references as links to external websites (in blue) and portfolio pages (in green).

EDUCATION
2002-04	MA Fine Art - University of East London
1996-99	BA (hons) Fine Art - Middlesex University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
2023	'De Facto' Screening & Artist Q&A, Eastcheap Projects, Letchworth Garden City
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
COMMISSIONS & RESIDENCIES
2021	Electric Medway - 'Critical Point', SparkedEcho, Chatham/Online, Medway, Kent
2020	'Cloud 9' Residency: 'Barriers and Glimpses', Eastcheap Projects, Letchworth Garden City
2020	Electric Medway - 'A Medway Futuricity', SparkedEcho, Chatham/Online, Medway, Kent
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 GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
2026	'Nature in the City, The City in Nature', Garage Gallery, London
2025	'Electric Medway Cinema Club', Rochester
2025	'Letchworth Open 2025', Letchworth Garden City
2024	'Two World's', Electric Medway Festival (Electric Medway TV)
2024	'Letchworth Open 2024', Letchworth Garden City
2024	'ArtWalks', Letchworth Garden City & Northampton
2022	'The Letchworth Open 2022', Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City
2022	'WDT 2:2 Virtual Exhibition', Wet Dove Tail, Online
2021	'The Absurd', FUBAR Collective, The Crypt Gallery, London
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 #2', Leyden Gallery, London
2018	'Video Art Film Club #1', Leyden Gallery, London
2018	'Unity Muse', Letchworth Community Museum
2017	'The Garden City Postcard Project', Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City
2016	'Alternative Letchworth Past & Present', Broadway Gallery/Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation
2014	'Canned Film Festival', ArtWork Studios & Gallery, Northwich
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	'Cambridge Artworks Open 2012', Artspace, Cambridge
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
2009	'Gaze & Body' Screening, ROTORELIEFS, Vibe Bar, Brick Lane, London
2007	'La Collezione', Fondazione Patrizio Patelli, Locarno, Switzerland
2005	'The Housewarming', Residence Gallery, London
2005	'Painting Film: A Multimedia Group Show', Swarm Gallery, hosted by Lounge Gallery, London
2005	'City Intrigue', Signatures Gallery, Duke Street St James, London
AWARDS
2012-16	Digswell Arts Fellowship, Letchworth Garden City
2011	Creekside Open Prize Winner, APT Gallery, London
PRESS & ARTICLES
2021	'The Southfields Bugler' - Published by Anima Loci, Dec 2021
2016	Deezeen (Owen Hatherley), Dec 2016