Vincent Poole
Artist Statement
Vincent Poole is a Pop Artist of contemporary London. In his bold large-scale photo montages he combines all the signs and symbols of modern metropolitan culture with a technique of stunning audacity. His images – of South London wide boys, King’s Cross streetwalkers, Chelsea girls and City slickers – are made up from dozens of pieces of printed celluloid, fixed with coloured pins. The effect is alive with light and colour and the buzz of the urban scene.
Poole studied Art at Goldsmiths College, London, at the end of the 1970s. He then worked in advertising and interior design in England and Germany before returning to picture making in 2004. Already his work – exhibited in London and New York – has achieved an enthusiastic following.
‘My work is influenced by imagery and processes used in the advertising industry. My work targets people and locations in a similar way that an advertising campaign also targets specific individuals in very specific areas. For example the graphical content of advertisements targeting Kings Cross N1 will be very different from advertisements targeting people living in Chelsea. I use parts of this advertising material to build the photomontage along with other imagery that I associate with the area.’
Poole studied Art at Goldsmiths College, London, at the end of the 1970s. He then worked in advertising and interior design in England and Germany before returning to picture making in 2004. Already his work – exhibited in London and New York – has achieved an enthusiastic following.
‘My work is influenced by imagery and processes used in the advertising industry. My work targets people and locations in a similar way that an advertising campaign also targets specific individuals in very specific areas. For example the graphical content of advertisements targeting Kings Cross N1 will be very different from advertisements targeting people living in Chelsea. I use parts of this advertising material to build the photomontage along with other imagery that I associate with the area.’