Art

Javier Mendizabal

Photo shot by @mikeomeally Javier Mendizabal is a skater and painter from Spain. He burst onto the international skate scene with legendary sections for Cliché where he showcased his unique flowing relaxed style on some of the gnarliest transitions available, whilst keeping things rolling on the streets and knocking out sick street bangers too. We were …

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Tommy Couzens

Tommy Couzens is a skater and artist based in London.  After seeing his creative approach to skating and then discovering he makes great paintings we had to find out more about him, so we hit him up for a chat about his work. We found out beyond his sick skating, that he has a great …

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Tony Ferguson

@giovannireda Tony Ferguson is a legendary Girl Skateboards pro and the founder of Rone footwear. Tony’s shoes are a lot like his skating. Classic shapes, comfortable style, made with attention to detail, that’s ready for all street terrain. As big fans of his skating in Girl and Chocolate videos and seeing his most recent releases …

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Mia Gurary

@c.e.foulkes Mia Gurary is a skateboarder and artist who runs Slacker. Through her creative brand she’s experimented with different forms of art, produce work in several mediums and made tighter connections with her crew and the collective of creatives she’s met along the way.  As soon as we noticed that her approach to skating and …

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Brian Lotti

@seutrinh Brian Lotti is a revolutionary skateboarder, painter and filmmaker who invented a series of pivotal tricks in the 90s and went pro but as quickly as he shot into the fame in the industry he suddenly departed from skateboarding. In these years Brian developed his painting which alongside his skating is what he is …

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Gulan

Gulan is an artist and skater from London, England who draws, paints and illustrates. His multifaceted art features signature warping faces, highly imaginative situations, settings and scenarios, wrapped in bold lines embedded with accompanying bright and dark colours. It’s fortunate as he has a bright career ahead of him and his creative approach not only …

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Roberto Cuellar

@dennisscholz Roberto Cuellar is a skater and artist from Mexico living in Berlin, Germany. His skateable sculptures are pieces of fine art. But there’s more to them than solid skate obstacles with intriguing aesthetics. As a skater and sculptor with a defined, refined ledge and bank skate style, he knows from years of experience what’s …

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James Bush

James Bush connects the dots on tech tricks that many cannot. His passion for complex constructions doesn’t just end on his board, he also works as a graphic designer which just further draws his focus into laying down well-spaced lines and making stylish shapes.  His skating and art is inventive, with a refined technique embedded …

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Luka Pinto

Luka Pinto’s spontaneous street skateboarding is a great thing to watch but there’s more to it than your eyes notice at first. He’s a skater and artist from Jersey, England a remote island where things regularly grow in isolation. So he’s used to coming up with his own ideas on skating and art drawn from …

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Matt Rodriguez

Matt Rodriguez’s skateboarding, music and art is flowing, fluid and fast. He’s got a unique, loose style on a board and a diverse trick selection and his spontaneous approach to skating on all-terrain oozes with creativity. So it’s no surprise he takes the same energy to the canvas and to his drumming. But behind Matt’s …

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Dan Mancina

Dan Mancina is a blind skateboarder who does gnarly tricks and tech ledge moves. But that’s not the only thing that defines his story. Dan’s passion to pursue challenges is unending. His lack of sight hasn’t slowed down his ability to experience new things, have fun and get sponsored. After he gradually lost his sight …

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Julian Klincewicz

Julian Klincewicz goes for everything on and off his board. He skates anything at anytime, that he can find inbetween working as a film director, musician, photographer, fashion designer and model. He’s created films and creative work for Louis Vuitton, Virgil Abloh, Kanye West, Slayer, Supreme and Calvin Klein. He’s shot models for Gosha Rubchinskiy …

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Chet Childress

Chet Childress is a rapid firing ripper on his board and at the canvas. An artist and a skater from a young age Chet turned pro and travelled the world nomadic style throwing down shocking tricks and documenting his experiences, thoughts and ideas through art. He skates for the thrill of new terrain and nice …

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Don Pendleton

Don Pendleton is one of the most prolific and productive graphic artists of all-time. Born in America’s Midwest, his art’s unmistakable hard lines, affinity for nature, and surreal framing has left a firm imprint on skate culture that is never to be repeated. Don’s sharp visual style and poetic statements cut through the fog of …

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Angel Acevedo

Angel Acevedo is a skater and artist from Pennsylvania who runs Terror of Planet X, a sick new East Coast board brand. TOPX’s nods to graphic novels and nostalgia are unique and creative but it’s not just its boards and clothing that’s making them stand out.  Angel has put together an incredible team headed by …

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Mike York

Mike is a pro skateboarder who runs skate company Roller Horror. He’s one of the most legendary street skaters ever My name is Mike York and I’m am a proud father of two, a professional skateboarder and I run Roller Horror. For me, the relationship between skateboarding and art to me, is that skateboarding is …

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Michael Sieben

Michael Sieben is an artist and the managing editor of Thrasher Magazine, global art curator for Volcom, co-owner of Roger Skateboards and has a monthly column in Juxtapoz Magazine I run Roger, make art, skate, hang out with my family and friends, go swimming and read novels. I also enjoy eating breakfast tacos and quietly …

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Zered Bassett

Zered is a pro skater who creates street art as Paper Skaters. I’ve been into photography for half my life and over the past few years have been doing a project called Paper Skaters. Paper Skaters is mostly street art that I’ve been making with the photos I shoot. Cutting, then pasting images in the …

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Andy Jenkins

Andrew Carl Jenkins is one of the most renowned creatives in skateboarding. After a tenure at Girl Skateboards as Art Director, working directly with Spike Jonze, he is now the Global Art Director for the Element brand. I try every day to get out of the bed with a good frame of mind (that happens …

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Feedback TS

Ted Barrow aka Feedback TS is a Satirical Skate Critic.   You’ve critiqued a load of skateboarding and honed an enjoyable style in the process – why did you decide to start Feedback, and how long have you been running the page? The first statement doesn’t have much to do with the question, but thanks, …

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Jeremy Wray

Jeremy Wray is a skater, artist and designer who has done some of the gnarliest tricks ever   Do you think there’s an inherent link between skateboarding and creativity? I believe it’s all undeniably linked – at least, it used to be. So many skaters from the 1980s and 90s were also artists, designers and …

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Nicolas Morales

Nicolas is an illustrator, skateboarder, handpoke tattooer, animator and an independent film maker from Argentina “I am the editor-in-chief of Detiro skatezine, an autogestive, open call, fanzine to promote local and around the country skate artists for free. I also founded @EscobaFilms with some friends as an independent producer for skate videos and more. I …

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Chris Martin

Chris Martin is a skater and digital illustrator from England “I do digital illustration mostly, graphic design, clothing, spray painting and anything else I fancy messing about with. I have been skating for years but always end up getting awkward injuries, so its good to have something else I enjoy that doesn’t rely on dodgy …

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Big Aye Skateboards

  Matt is a skater from England who makes custom skateboards at Big Aye Skateboards I handcraft skateboards and engrave them with custom artwork, as well as my own artwork… Skateboarding in itself is an art, with the freedom to get as creative as you want…As you can tell from all the mad shit people …

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Chase Chivers

Chase is an artist and skater based in London I am a skateboarder with creative tendencies, trying to battle a procrastination habit. My creative approach to art is similar to my approach to skateboarding in that I like to exercise total freedom in how I approach both things, and how far to push those things …

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Callum Sidlauskas

Callum Beanplant Photo: cj_photo Callum Sidlauskas is a skateboarder and artist from Birmingham, England I’m a big fan of Polar Skate Co. and fuckingawesome and think they’ve always got it on point. Music is an inspiration to me. I always like listening to tunes to get me in the vibe when creating but sometimes I’ll …

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Bobby Puleo

Bobby Puleo is an East Coast Street Skateboarding Legend. He’s known for his unique artistic style and defiant comittment to creative exploration on and off his board. He owns and runs online-based board brand VICTIM   What’s Your Full Name, where are you originally from and where do you live now? Robert Jack Puleo Jr. …

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Biko Issah: Reel Cool

Biko is a tattoo artist and illustrator whose photorealistic style is so accurate it’s scary. When we discovered Biko’s talent we had to make him a member Since he joined a lot has changed for Biko He moved to Barcelona, started as a freelance tattoo artist, became a dad and has now moved back to …

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Suki Lune

Suki Lune is a tattoo artist based in London Tattooing involves a great deal of sourcing inspiration because you’re churning out work with a much faster turn over than that of an illustrator or painter. You’re constantly looking for ways to turn the world around you into something you can utilise for your work and …

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Doobie Doodles

Zander Sattee is an artist and skater who runs Doobie Doodles  I draw, make music, make videos, design clothes, and sometimes try to make short cartoons. I think skateboarding inspires me partly just because I love it and it gets me stoked and also because so many great skateboarders are amazing artists as well. It’s …

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Jazz Wade

Jazz is an illustrator and skateboarder living in Leicester Skateboarding is the best thing out there! It opens your eyes to such a varied and creative world, it gives you the chance to meet so many people and look at life around you in a completely different way. Skateboarding and making some form of art …

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Shit Pencil

Alex AKA Shit Pencil is a skater and artist from Folkestone, England I’ve been drawn to art since I was at school. I really wanted to draw skate-related stuff during class but my art teacher wasn’t keen. Instead, I spent about 3 years drawing animals, which sort of killed my creativity a bit as I …

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Tom Delves

Tom is a skater and artist based in London “Being a skateboarder just exposes you to loads of other creative stuff such as the music in skate videos and the graphics on boards and ads. I think that just being obsessed with something makes you wanna express that in other areas of your life, like …

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Goblyn Crew

Goblyn Crew is run by Dan Robinson a skateboarder and illustrator who creates 3D design, ceramics and clothing. Skateboarding and art go hand in hand.Skateboarding is an art form and there are so many skateboarders out there killing it with their own creativity and style. Skateboarding is a chance to get away from it all …

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Benny Brown

Benny is an illustrator and skateboarder from Felixstowe, Drawing and skateboarding are my two main passions in life and I’m lucky to spend most of my time doing both of them. From a young age skating helped me to look at things differently and although I never realised it at the time, it put me …

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Adam Hoens

Adam is a skater and artist from Canada Skateboarding is so creative it’s natural that skaters pursue other art avenues. Skating appeals to me because you can do what you want with it. It’s a lather, rinse and repeat type activity. It teaches you discipline, persistence and patience. Those qualities are crucial to my art …

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Arthur Tubb

Arthur is a skater and 3D Animator. I think skateboarding, making art and 3D design and my process are all connected, as skateboarding is a combination of the technical and the creative. The physical aspect is good too, as it gets you away from your laptop, gives you some exercise and lets you get a …

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Charles Neilson

Charles Neilson is a skateboarder and artist based in Ireland I work in Illustration, animation and motion graphics. I’ve worked for Frank Skateboards, @stancesocks, @greymag, @FTCbarcelona and @brutmagazine. I spend my time skateboarding or making fun stuff. I see art and design the same way I see skateboarding. They’re what I do to have fun. They give me a …

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Nelson Flores

Nelson is a skateboarder and oil painter from Arizona “My creative process has always been what skateboarder, or skate image gets me hyped me the most. i have to find that perfect reference image of them that makes me say, “hell yeah, i really want to paint this.” Otherwise, your forcing yourself to come back …

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Rohum Dilley

Rohum is a skateboarder and filmmaker I think skateboarding and filmmaking go hand in hand – You need videos to showcase what is going on in our culture and with today’s need for more content, filmmaking is one of the most creative ways of doing so. Personally, I’d rather spend a long time on a project …

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Yoon Hyup

Yoon is a skater and artist who lives in New York I paint what I see, remember, listen and feel, but I don’t necessarily call it realism. It’s more abstract, so to speak. I mostly paint on walls or canvas. Music and cities inspire me but skateboarding is a big influence . It’s a lifestyle …

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Kim Sedman

Kim is a skater and illustrator based in London. “After I broke my leg I realised I couldn’t physically be a part of the skate scene in the way I once was so I started drawing my friends skating and then set up an Instagram to document it. It’s sweet that no matter what you …

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Dinero DIY

  Dinero DIY is a skateable art experience in Spain We are Levanna and Eve. We are skaters, DJ’s and DIY makers. Art and skateboarding are instrinsically linked and we love to explore ideas that fuse the two together. We enjoy generating original ideas and have found huge scope within the realm of building and …

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Marc McKee

Marc is a skater and artist from California. He’s made some of the most iconic skate graphics of all time My name’s Marc McKee but a weird thing to think about is that I was adopted when I was 2 months old, so I must have had a different name before that. In 1989 I …

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Bobbi Abbey

Bobbi is a skateboarder and painter-illustrator based in Leeds, England When it comes to my creative process skateboarding has always played a huge part. It shaped my style and imagery into what it is now. I spent a lot of time in school looking at Sidewalk Magazine, Document (RIP) and Thrasher Magazine, I would copy …

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George Yarnton

George is a skateboarder and illustrator based in Ipswich. “I think skateboarding culture directs almost all of what I make as an illustrator. Most of my inspiration comes from who I meet and see when I’m out and about, the conversations we have and hear.   It’s fun to go out on a street mission …

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Russ Longmire

Russ AKA Sketch Stance is a skateboarder and illustrator from Liverpool who runs skate Company Mersey Grit Skateboard Inc “I create black and white, brush and ink illustrations under the name Sketch Stance. (The name spawned from a fanzine many years back). I curate monthly exhibitions on the walls at Bold Street Coffee in Liverpool. …

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Sergio Pontillo

Sergio is a skater and filmer from Napoli, Italy. Skateboarding is what led me to start shooting photos and videos, like many others. I owe a lot to it. I’m 25, and I’ve been skateboarding for 12 years now, non-stop, and now more than ever I’m starting to realize how quickly things change. That’s the …

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Andrew Pommier

Andrew is a skater and illustrator from Canada I make drawings and graphics and paintings that are delivered in many ways and executions. When I was growing up skateboarding the creative pursuit seemed linked and inseparable so the skate world had a real impact on why I drew and made things. It was all one …

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Mark Pritchard

Mark is a skater and painter based in Bristol I moved back to Bristol after being in Sheffield for 8 years, I help out at Fifty Fity Store but I’m pursuing a career in Motion Graphics, Post Production and Editing. I’ve been painting for 9 years. It’s a medium for me to mess around with …

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Jake Martinelli

Jake is a skater and filmmaker from London. “For me as soon as I watched my first skateboard video I wanted to make a video so the relationship of making videos and skateboarding go hand in hand for me, it’s also nice to have a period in your life documented for years to come. My …

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Pete Sharp

Pete is a skater and artist based in South London “I don’t skate anywhere near as much as I’d like to these days and I reckon that definitely has a negative impact on my work. Skating is like hanging out with your mates while getting loads of meditative exercise, and if you don’t get all …

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Liam Ashley Clark

Liam is a skateboarder and artist based in Norwich, England For me, skateboarding was definitely part of my introduction into a lot of art, along with music, and maybe without skating I wouldn’t even be making art now.   I think skateboarding attracts a lot of creative people, especially when they’re younger, and as you …

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George BoothCole

George is a skateboarder and photographer from London. The connection between instinctual expression and technical ability is just one really important idea in skating and photography as for the most part, you need both to create anything in both mediums. In skating, it’s technically being able to do the tricks you think of on your …

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Tom Lodge

Tom is a skater and illustrator from Manchester, England. My work is pretty much all monochromatic pen and ink – I think I might have used colour once upon a time, but I can’t be sure. Even if you don’t take into account how intertwined the two are creatively, I think skateboarding and art are …

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Lukas Kacevicius

Photo by @rafski Lukas is a skateboarder and artist Skateboarding and making art is all deeply connected because in a way one can’t be there without another.  For me it’s all about the process, the shit you’re going through at the time. Mostly I get hyped by my homies and places around me. Obviously men …

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Greg Herbert

Greg is a skater and artist living and working in Liverpool My practice mainly uses sculpture, film and animation to explore human impact on earth (the #anthropocene) and the way we interact with our environment. Skateboarding for me was a huge influence on the way I started to look at space and architecture. It also …

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Nathaniel Jones

Nathaniel is a graphic designer based in Bristol, England. My name is Nathaniel Jones. I’m a graphic and apparel designer. Alongside that I sometimes make graphics for brands I’m into like Quartersnacks and The Quiet Life. I also have a side project called Requiem For A Screen and I’ve been working on a new brand that’s launching …

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Louis Slater

Louis Slater is a skater and artist who runs Sex Skateboards. Lately, I’ve been painting a lot. I think the thing that keeps me painting is detaching my brain from the physical world that we see, and creating something that’s in my head or channeled from another place that we know nothing about. It’s just …

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Jack Hamilton

Jack is a skateboarder and illustrator based in London “I think for me the relationship between art and skateboarding is a close one. If I didn’t skate I would be a completely different person to who I am now. I would definitely have different views and interests. Skating has shaped me and has massively influenced …

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Ben Gore

Ben is a skater and artist based in Brighton. Although I don’t necessarily make art about skating, my art is definitely informed by skate culture. The DIY nature of skating has really informed how I go about things; whether it be zine making or hosting exhibitions. I think skateboarding has helped teach me that it …

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Simon Skipp

Si is a skater and artist who makes wood carving sculpture My name is Simon Skipp, I use reclaimed skateboards to create what I would call low relief and fretwork style carvings either in the form of wall hanging pieces or smaller household items like side /coffee tables and lamps. The relationship between skateboarding and …

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Sam Hutchinson AKA Blinky

Sam Hutchinson is an artist and photographer based in Leeds I make work using images, sculpture and installation. I also enjoy publishing and book making and use various other mediums when necessary. I feel that although I have always enjoyed creativity, skateboarding from an early age gave me my first reason to be involved more …

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Vaughan Baker

Vaughan is a skater and artist from England. When I think about the relationship of skateboarding, making art and making stuff, I think, yeah of course, I mean it might be different person to person, but for myself it’s purely a form of expression.., not quite the same for everyone as they are both a …

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Reuben De Haan

Reuben is a skater and artist based in London. “I think the skateboarding world is constantly differentiating itself. There are always new people coming in as well as old heads who are showing them the older eras of the skate scene. This is important for me and the art I make and the work that …

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Gaurab Thakali

Gaurab is an illustrator-printmaker based in London. I think skateboarding and making art are very similar to certain extents and both are heavily intertwined to me personally, I started skateboarding before I started making art and being exposed to all the visual side of skateboarding made me more interested in making art. Mark “The Gonz” …

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Liam Sproat

Liam is a skater and illustrator from Leeds. If you don’t know me already, I do a little bit of everything. I speak foreign languages, play the guitar, ride a skateboard, do a bit of rock-climbing and I enjoy drawing a lot, which is why I’m here I suppose. I do think there’s a strong …

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Benjamin Murphy

Benjamin is a skater and artist who lives in London. I think that skateboarding was the genesis of my creativity. When I was eleven or so I discovered skateboarding and was instantly hooked on it. But before that, I wasn’t especially creative. Through skateboarding, I realised that I thrived on the freedom that it gave …

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Omar Allsop

Omar is a skater and filmer who runs ON TICK. I skate, film and make videos with my mates. I also got two part time jobs but, who cares? I always just film with whoever is about and keen to skate, mainly the homies living here in Bristol and our mates from Jersey. On Tick …

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Kane Nugent

Kane is a skater, artist and filmer who runs Glue Bag The name Glue Bag came about sometime when I was living in Cardiff. Its an outdated joke aimed at people who still huffed glue from plastic bags. The name stuck and upon moving to South East Asia the name had a greater relevance here, …

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Dave The Chimp

Dave is a skater and artist who makes illustration, music and videos. Dave is a skater and artist who makes illustration, music and videos. I do many things that fall under the broad description of “art”. Today I am writing a song and planning to go out painting graffiti tonight, all the while in quite …

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Jon Horner

Jon is a skater and illustrator from England. When I’m working I can get pretty tightly wound. I tend to do long hours hunched over at a desk so any chance I get to go and flail around near a curb is an absolute treat.   At the moment my ankle’s a bit of a …

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Flavio Zimmerman

Flavio is a skater and designer from Switzerland. For me personally, there is a big connection between skateboarding and creativity. I know a lot of people that skate who are interested in different subcultures and art and music scenes. Being surrounded by all these people has inspired me to start creating and organising projects with …

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Domas Glatkauskas

Domas is a skater and artist who lives in London I skate and create art pieces. I also work in a school with children on autism spectrum. I learn as much as I can and teach when appropriate. Lately I’ve been discussing skateboarding and creativity with my friend Zin we opened an exhibition at Grosvenor …

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Grant Peacock

Grant is a skateboarder and illustrator from Hereford. I’m an illustrator at heart but I like to dabble with moving image, film, graphic design and photography. It’s great to learn new skills. I definitely think skateboarding helps me to learn new things creatively. Its given me experience in putting work in and pushing myself as …

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Will Berry

Will is an illustrator and skater based in Manchester. Skateboarding has inspired me artistically from an early age. The graphics and illustration that were around in the early 00’s shaped me to be the illustrator and designer I am today. The creative process itself of trying different things and experimenting with ideas are present in …

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Alisdair Smith

Alisdair Smith is a skater and artist from Birmingham, England “As skateboarders we all understand that we have an ability to read architecture in a different way to other people. It’s a uniquely creative skill. But its not just seeing a rail or a ledge as a skateable object, it’s the fact we consider all …

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Helena Long

Helena is an sponsored skateboarder, illustrator and musician My name is Helena Long. I skate a lot, drum a lot, work a lot and enjoying illustrating things here and there. I think skateboarding and the other artistic,creative things that you do always overlap and feed off each other. What I particularly enjoy from skateboarding, I …

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Phil Evans

Phil is a skater and filmmaker who lives in Malmo Sweden I wish I could be more creative on my skateboard but I’m pretty rubbish…So, I guess the creative opportunity for me comes when I get to live vicariously through people I skate with who are better or more original than me on a plank. …

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Dan Clarke

Dan is a skateboarder and Illustrator from London. A lot of my inspiration for drawings and paintings come from my roots in skateboarding. My everyday observation of space and architecture is influenced by searching for skate spots in my early days of skating. This perspective has found its way into my illustration, as I’m always …

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Arran Gregory

I think art and skateboarding go hand in hand, I think they both come from a place of playfulness. It’s a very self disciplined form of playfulness. I think a lot of people who skate grow up with creative outlets and work in creative industries because they’ve managed to stay in touch with this side …

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Felix Jouanneau

Felix is a skateboarder and bootmaker from London, England “I think that skateboarding has taught me to be patient, which I apply daily to making boots and shoes. I mainly use skateboarding to clear my head when I have to much boot on my mind. Also you look at most things slightly differently being a …

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Nick Jensen

Nick is a pro skater and artist who runs Isle Skateboards Skateboarding and making art both inspire me. I started skating because I saw some cool looking kids doing trick on a park bench and from then on I knew I had to do it too. It’s the same with painting. I would see paintings …

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Neil Worthington

Neil is a skateboarder and artist who illustrates and paints. When I think about it, I picture the origin of true skateboard graphics as the time when skateboarders started too design their own pro board graphics and put their personality in the mix like Neil Blender did. The graphics that he and others produced were …

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Zin

Zin is a skateboarder and painter from Lithuania who now lives in London, England. My full name is Zilvinas Vaitiekunas but everyone knows me as Zin. I skate and make paintings and also experiment with other forms of visual art, like film-making. In my experience art and skateboarding are very related. When I take a …

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Biko Issah

Biko is a skater and artist from London. “I’ve never really thought about the connection between skateboarding and making art too much. Although, there’s definitely a similarity in the thought process. In the same way that you might imagine how a skate trick will look and feel, you can visualise how a piece of art …

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Mikey Cheah

Mikey is a skater and artist who’s living in Tokyo, Japan. I’ve always had respect for technical ability in art and skateboarding although this alone has never held my interest for very long.   When I look at skating and art, I’m drawn quite naturally to things I feel connected to, so I get excited …

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Ashley Dhnoa aka The TRiP

Ash is a skateboarder and artist from Birmingham, England. There’s a strong connection between skateboarding and illustration. On virtually every skate product there’s a rich, diverse range of illustrations. Every skater knows different skate brand styles. As skaters we’re all connected to the range of visual identities, brands and artists within skate culture. I think …

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