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John Dove & Molly White John Dove,(born 29 August 1943, in Norwich, United Kingdom) and Molly White[2],(born 23 June 1944, in Norwich, United Kingdom) are two British artists who work together collaboratively. They are known for their distinctive Pop Art silkscreen prints and T-shirt artworks[3]. Their work translates the contemporary cultural shift at the beginning of the 1960s of the convergence culture in Art, Music, Fashion and a sociopolitical world view.

Early Work John Dove studied Fine Art, Painting and Printmaking at Norwich School of Art in 1960-1964. Molly White studied Art and Design at Norwich School of Art in 1959-1961 and textiles at Manchester College of Art in 1962-1964. The two first met while studying at Norwich school of Art in 1962[4]. They [5]moved to London in 1965. Molly White worked freelance on printed textiles. Most celebrated furnishing textile print was “Centrum” sold to Hull Traders[6] Dering Street, London W1 in 1966.[7]Part-time teacher of Textile Printing at Maidenhead School of Art. John worked as a Freelance Illustrator. Most celebrated illustration was “The Brando You Know”- a portrait of Marlon Brando from “The Wild One”, double-page spread Nova (UK magazine).1969. The Art Directors at Nova, Harri Peccinotti and Bill Fallover commissioned drawings by Dove for the next 2 years. Part-time teacher of Drawing at Hornsey College of Art and at Sutton School Of Art. In 1966-1970 they joined a group of artists, filmmakers, sculptors and potters called the Chippenham Arts Group that rented a derelict factory in Chippenham Road Paddington W8 London, from Brent Council. They built a 40 ft print table for fabric printing so Molly could expand her designs into their own screen print production; Pop Art printed shirts in collaboration with Jasper Shirts of Kingly Street W.1. Most celebrated was a Fair-isle sweater printed on front and back of a shirt so it appeared to be real - an early example of Trompe l'eoil. John Dove worked on prints, sculptures and drawings. His multiples, most notably a giant 10ft 'Flying Duck’, photographed in 1971 by Jim Arnould (Arts Council Collection) and Tim Street Porter (Domas magazine). The sculpture was included in the first international exhibition of Multiple Art, '3 [towards infinity]’, at The Whitechapel Gallery London E.1. His “Liberty”sculpture commission 1970 for Mister Freedom boutique 20 Kensington Church Street, London was photographed for The Sunday Times Colour Supplement February 28th. 1971. Fantastic Food, ‘Giant Jelly’. sculpture photographed by Jim Arnould and Tim Street Porter, published in Vogue (“Fashions For Living”1970). Molly White’s screen-printed silk scarves were retailed in the flamboyant London Mayfair boutique, Mr. Fish. Printed linen scarves were sold at the Liberty (department store) Regent Street, London, Photographed by Chan for Vogue magazine 1969 (’You and Another Evenings Self’)

In 1968 John Dove and Molly White joined forces to design a printed tattoo underwear collection (with 24 silkscreens) on transparent clothing "Painless Tattoo" - another early example of Trompe l'eoil retailed by James Wedge and Pat Booth owners of Top Gear and Countdown boutiques in the Kings Road London - Was featured in Vogue and Nova (UK magazine). Caroline Baker. Fashion Editor of Nova wrote; “Give yourself a past with a painless tattoo. Tattoos have been the subject of so many sordid jokes, but some patterns can be quite beautiful in their own right. - funny old fashioned fantasies in faded blue on pink skin, smacking of seedy Eastern ports and rugged pasts." Subsequently retailed in Bloomingdale's store, New York. In the 60’s Tattoos were taboo. Dove and White’s Tattoo T-shirt designs elevated the tattoo from it’s traditional roots to a more street fashion/cutural level. Alice Hiller wrote in the T-shirt book (Ebury Press 1988): "Anthropologists term this technique of letting your T-shirt do the talking, the "new primitivism" and draw parallels between body painting in Polynesian cultures and T-shirt wearing in the First World." Their collaboration with Booth and Wedge led them to create one of the most iconic T-shirts of the period, another experiment in Trompe l'eoil, a screen-printed T-shirt made from a photograph by James Wedge of Pat’s breasts - The “Breasts T-shirt” was sold at “Countdown” in Kings Road, London and “Ians” Greenwich Village in New York under the ‘Aspidistra’ label. Later 70’s versions were in the Kitsch-22 collection.