Ollie & Frances Dove “Lift the Veil”

Ollie Dove mixed media pieces

Selva is proud to present “Lift the Veil”, a split show between Frances and Ollie Dove showing an intergenerational conversation about montage encompassed with punk aesthetic, politics and fashion.

What do Frances and Ollie share in common?
Both were raised in a screen printing studio.
Born into the historic UK punk movement using clothes as mediums to transport ideas, merging images into fashion into contemporary art.
Convergent artist working at the intersection of collage, montage, and social commentary.
And YES, Ollie may be France’s biggest creation.

In both of their practices t-shirts are never treated as secondary objects 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.

Ollie and Frances are continuing the family legacy of John Dove and Molly white, Frances parents, who since the 60’s have been working as visual artists and printmakers using clothes as canvas to create iconic graphics that years later became staples of pop-culture.

This show states that these practices and motifs, against many predictions, are very much alive and invites you to come see and witness a family bound through analog silkscreen images.

Curated by Lucas Cabu

Frances Dove collages

Frances Dove on the right, and Ollie Dove Looney T-Shirt on the left