Ollie Dove lives and works in the UK. A third-generation silkscreen T-shirt artist, he carries forward the lineage of his family’s flatbed, home-printed practice, transforming it into a contemporary visual language that spans works on paper, canvas, and garment.
His screen-printed T-shirts are never treated as secondary objects or merchandise, but as singular artworks in their own right. Each carries hand-painted elements, unique variations, and imagery drawn from the same screens, ideas, and visual vocabulary as his works on canvas and paper. In this way, the garments and artworks are deeply intertwined: the paintings extend into the shirts, and the shirts expand the reach of the paintings, collapsing boundaries between art object, wearable statement, and lived experience.
Dove’s practice is rooted in a background of British punk - His pieces operate as anarcho statements, love songs, gateways to the spiritual world, and visual guardian angels.
His work has been stocked internationally, including at Dover Street Market, Supreme, Domicile Tokyo, and Waste Store London, situating his practice at the universally in contemporary art, subcultural identity, and global fashion.