Volcom teams up with Bob Mollema for the latest in its Featured Artist Series

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True to This — The boardsports lifestyle brand will host an art show in Biarritz to celebrate the Dutch illustrators’ second capsule collection.

Action sports cloth­ing and lifestyle brand Vol­com has teamed up with Bob Molle­ma for the lat­est in its Fea­tured Artist Series.

The cloth­ing cap­sule col­lec­tion fea­tures his bold car­toon illus­tra­tions print­ed on top of t‑shirts, jack­ets, shorts, shirts and more, in a range of colours from black and white to bright green.

It marks the sec­ond time that the Dutch illus­tra­tor has cre­at­ed a col­lec­tion for Vol­com as part of the series, with the brand host­ing a live show at Ata­bal in Biar­ritz today (May 21) to cel­e­brate, fea­tur­ing live art mak­ing, band per­for­mances and more.

Born in Ben­nekom in 1990, Mollema’s work draws inspi­ra­tion from ancient mythol­o­gy and nature, while blend­ing them with mod­ern techniques.

In a 2022 inter­view with Wast­ed Tal­ent Mag­a­zine, which fol­lowed his first series for Vol­com, Molle­ma said: I care a lot about nature, and I am into pop cul­ture, read­ing and mak­ing music.

My work and music con­sist of end­less ref­er­ences and asso­ci­a­tions that orig­i­nate from images, mythol­o­gy, his­to­ry or pop cul­ture,” he con­tin­ued. That is also one of my con­vic­tions; as artists, we must build on each oth­er and bread down our walls. Art, in what­ev­er form, is vital to the world and our rela­tion­ship with the unknown. Art is blood cells for the world!”

Found­ed in 1991, Vol­com has grown to become a lead­ing brand across surf­ing, skate­board­ing and snow­board­ing. It became the first action sports com­pa­ny to set up a record label in 1995, Vol­com Entertainment.

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See the full cap­sule col­lec­tion at Volcom’s web­site.

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