Vincent Larkin

Vincent Larkin is an artist, illustrator and academic. In his role as Course Leader for BA (Hons) Illustration at Arts University of Bournemouth, Vincent is responsible for liaising with industry and creative practitioners in order to facilitate lectures, workshops, live briefs and more. To this end, in the past academic year, he has facilitated projects with external organisations as diverse as Lush cosmetics, Epic Games, BCP Council, Mind, Scribbler, in order to enrich and focus undergraduate experience for the illustration program.

Through music-based projects and collaborations, Vincent has released LPs with labels such as Upset the Rhythm and Gringo Records. As part of the band Spin Spin the Dogs he has performed at venues and arts festivals across the UK, in locations such as the ICA in London and the BALTIC in Gateshead. In the spirit of such work, Vincent took part in the residency program at the V&A. The resulting research into the popular music and performance photography collection cumulated in a handmade illustrated book, together with video work and a live musical performance taking place in the entrance hall of the museum. Vincent also spent two years curating print-based exhibitions alongside live art events at the 64 Killigrew street arts space in Falmouth, Cornwall.

In his role at AUB, Vincent works with BA (Hons) Illustration across all three years of the course, supporting students with practice and theory. He has also worked with TheGallery at AUB on several projects, including collaborations with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO), and sponsorship of BSO concerts at Lighthouse, Poole over many years, curating Pictures at an Exhibition (2018), and co-curating Magical Fairytales (2019). In 2020, as joint curator of Unrequited Love, he worked with BA (Hons) Illustration students who responded to concerts, building a visual narrative by interacting with themes from the music, linking into the concerns of his own practice regarding the overlaps and narrative possibility in performance, digital media and the illustrated spectacle.

Vincent's practice is based around the idea of the uncomfortable narrative; the overlaps and diversions in the way we tell the story of ourselves. In the pursuit of this he works with the form of the book, printed media, web-based media and sometimes song.