Oliver Hoffmeister (b.1995) is a painter-printmaker living and working between Newcastle and London. His work focuses on the obscure nature of the imagined image, with particular reference to the artist’s conceived imagery. Pulling influence from the plethora of visual stimuli that we interact with both passively and actively everyday, he allows his subconscious to derive images without a system of hierarchy. Creating art in an act reminiscent of ‘daydreaming’, these images tend to shift and masquerade as something other, whilst remaining self-contained.
In 2023, Oliver completed a scholarship year at the Royal Drawing School, and in 2024 he was awarded the Richard Ford Award, a prestigious residency in Madrid where selected artists are given full access to the Prado collections and encouraged to learn and work from them.