OOF in collaboration with Umbro (again) are releasing two artist-designed limited edition shirts that:
Look just as good on the football pitch as they will in a gilded frame hung next to the Mona Lisa.
Featuring Hank Willis Thomas and Rachel Maclean for two head-spinning, eye-melting works of sartorial
psychedelia, both limited to 400 pieces.
Rachel Maclean is a Scottish artist whose work plays with cuteness, pop and internet aesthetics to often unsettling effect, and usually to poke holes in the fragile fabric of society. She’s had shows at places like the National Gallery and the Venice Biennale, and now she’s done a football shirt. Her work for our collaboration features a joyful smiley face emoji, twisted and distended into a maelstrom of neon pink and bright yellow.
Hank Willis Thomas is one of the most important American artists working today, using his art to critique ideas of oppression, racism and the legacies of slavery in contemporary society, all while pushing for liberation and emancipation. The shirt for his OOF collaboration extends his work with the Wide Awakes collective, a group set up in the wake of the contentious 2020 USA elections to fight for cultural change and ‘to radically reimagine the future and enable self-emancipation’. The shirt features a huge, hypnotising eye in dizzying Op art-like black and white stripes. Coming out just after yet another heated,
tumultuous US election, there couldn’t be a better time for Hank’s message.
Wear them to your weekly five-a-side game or frame them on your wall: they’re football shirts, they’re art.
Available NOW at umbro.co.uk and oofgallery.com
both shirts £65
