VINCENT STOKES
My work is an attempt to consolidate the seemingly overlooked significance of the prosaic day-to-day through the explication of iconography. Broadly speaking, my work employs aesthetic devices such as gesture, countenance, symbolism and allegory to articulate and amplify the quiet complexities of identity. I seek to illuminate the unmemorable. In so doing, my drawings serve to acknowledge the ethereal nature of the commonplace. I want to reconcile the transcendental notions of self with the aesthetic of the everyday.
Vincent Stokes is a visual artist currently living and working out of the West Midlands, UK. In 2018, he graduated from the Birmingham School of Art with an MA distinction in fine art whereupon he immediately began exhibiting across the region. In 2021, The New Art Gallery Walsall purchased his drawing A Family under Lockdown for their permanent collection.
In 2022, his first solo exhibition The days I have found, the days I have held... opened at The Asylum Art Gallery, Wolverhampton. In 2023, he was selected for membership of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists as an RBSA Graduate Artist (GRBSA).