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JOHN VINCENT<br />
John’s work explores narrative and in each painting the scene is of a<br />
moment in time that conversely lends itself, in part, to the ‘film still’.<br />
The process he uses is to blend photographic or video fragments and<br />
meld these together to form a cohesive narrative expressed either<br />
through oil paint or analogue and <strong>digital</strong> video.<br />
His subject is an exploration of the atmosphere generated by missing<br />
or hidden elements within the scene that convey a sense of mystery<br />
and the impression that a significant event has already occurred (or<br />
that is about to) which affects the visible persons and those that may<br />
be hidden.<br />
Whilst this often involves the concealment of the identities it is also<br />
achieved by the interaction of these figures with inanimate objects<br />
within the frame.<br />
jv@johnvincent.co.uk<br />
www.johnvincent.co.uk<br />
‘Brightcot Revisted’ (still)<br />
Video: 8m 6s<br />
©Artist<br />
Photo: John Vincent<br />
This house, formerly known as ‘Brightcot’, is one of the oldest in<br />
Letchworth. Designed by architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin<br />
it is a cottage originally built for the Miss Wilkinsons (presumably<br />
sisters) one of whom was a secretary for the local suffragist<br />
movement.<br />
This video is a time travelling experience that seeks to discover<br />
changes to the house and grounds and begins with the position of an<br />
old gate bearing the house’s former name at the front of the house.<br />
The video explores both the architecture, ideas of transformation and<br />
the desire to travel through time and the futility of such an idea - and<br />
yet there I am, via video wizardry, back in 1909.<br />
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