5-layer hand pulled screen print. 320gsm Southbank Smooth. Embossed. I like you — the understatement that often means more than the declaration it's not quite making. The embossing gives the...
5-layer hand pulled screen print. 320gsm Southbank Smooth. Embossed.
I like you — the understatement that often means more than the declaration it's not quite making. The embossing gives the phrase a physical depth appropriate to that quality of meaning more than it says: the words pressed into the paper, present by touch as much as sight. Oli Fowler grew up in Kimpton, Hertfordshire and moved to London in 2000 to study fashion and textiles at Central Saint Martins before completing a BA in Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts. He has been a PCL technician and tutor for five years, values experimentation and allows chance and deliberate mistakes to direct the finished piece. Commissioned by Jeremy Deller, Fraser Muggaridge and LOM Architecture. Solo shows at Shaws Booksellers, Blackfriars and The Crown, Angel.. At £65, one of his most accessible pieces, and characteristically direct. Signed. £65.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Oli Fowler
Oli Fowler is an artist who specialises in screen-printing and graphic design.
Oli grew up in Kimpton, Hertfordshire and moved to London in 2000 to study fashion and textiles at Central Saint Martins. More recently, he received a BA in Graphic Design from Camberwell College of Arts.
Oli’s artistic practice spans across various forms of graphic art and design, including printmaking, illustration, photography, and photomontage, and he frequently combines these different mediums in his creative process. He values experimentation from the earliest stages of work and bends the rules of printmaking, allowing for chance and deliberate mistakes to give direction for the finished piece.
When screen printing, Oli often uses tape and stickers to break down the composition, and plays around with patterns, textures and photographs to create density of imagery. His dynamic, abstract compositions are characteristic by their use of sharp shapes and pure CMYK colours.
Alongside his freelance work, for the past five years Oli has also been involved with the Print Club London as a technician and tutor. He has led screen-printing classes and provided 1-to-1 tutoring for creative professionals and beginners alike.
He has had solo shows in London at the Shaws Booksellers, Blackfriars, and The Crown, Angel. His recent group exhibition The Time with the collective Up and Coming Art was held at The Mushroom Works, Newcastle.
Apart from occasionally experiencing a sudden impulse to draw the odd robot or two, Oli is interested in all things nostalgic, colourful, futuristic and is an obsessive collector of prog and jazz rock.
He has been commissioned for printing and original artwork by Jeremy Deller, Fraser Muggaridge and LOM Architecture and Design. His work is stocked at Nelly Duff Gallery in addition to Print Club London. His ‘disco is…’ series, which began in 2018, has become one of his most recognisable bodies of work — the open-ended phrase evolving through different design phases to its current hot foil and 3D drop shadow incarnation.
