Darius Trabalza
Darius Trabalza is a skater and painter from London who’s sponsored by Slam City Skates and Adidas. His skating is flowing and stylish with a helping of next level tech thrown in whenever he wants to connect the dots …
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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 …
Alice Smith
Alice Smith Shot by @whistonphoto
Alice Smith is a skater living in Birmingham sponsored by Nike SB who runs Brum Girl Skate.
She’s got a creative trick selection, stylish No Complys and does original tricks on ramp and street. …
Mike Manzoori: In Focus Interview
Mike Manzoori’s skateboarding shows just one side of his creative talents but it was his pro career that put him on a path to filmmaking.
We were really interested to find out how exactly he made the transition …
Chris Emery
Chris Emery is a skater and filmmaker from Wolverhampton, England who runs Wolftown Skateboards.
His dedication to documenting skateboarding in Wolverhampton is unparalleled in both quality and quantity.
Over the last decade he’s produced a series of full-length …
Nasir Roumou
Nasir Roumou is a skater based in London sponsored by Blast Skates.
His skating blends his passion for ’80s tricks done with a modern day approach. It’s clear that he gets a lot of creative inspiration from that early street-jump …
Mia Gurary
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 …
Mike Manzoori
Mike Manzoori is a skateboarder and filmmaker from England who lives in the USA.
Shredding on all terrain with a fast and loose style, Mike came up as a skater in an era when there was almost nothing …
Corey Bartle-Sanderson
@lostartshop / @uselesswoodentoyssociety
Corey Bartle-Sanderson is a skater and artist living in London.
Corey’s fine art is abstract but by taking a longer look at it you see there’s more to it than what appears on the surface. …
Josh Simpson
Josh Simpson is a skater and filmmaker based in South London.
His artistic skate edits capture the lines and bangers of his crew at a series of well-known and lesser seen South London skate spots from the viewpoint of …
John Murphy
John Murphy is a skateboarder, rapper and skate video maker from The South West of England. His tech skating and verbacious lyrical output both contain inventiveness, ingenious and a unique quirky intricacy.
After discovering skating from American TV …
Calvin Ligono
Calvin Ligono is a skateboarder sponsored by New Balance who lives in London. He’s well travelled and consistently upbeat but we’re not just talking about his personality and skating. After finding out he’s lived in Africa, America, and …
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 …
Marcus Palmer
Marcus Palmer is a skateboarder from Birmingham who’s sponsored by Emerica and Karma Skateboards. He’s got a rad style, rips street and ramps and can seamlessly skate both at super speed with original style and he has great Hardflips. He …
Ed Syder
Ed Syder’s illustrations are drawn from a love for skateboarding and his vested interests in the pop culture, music and film that captured him as a kid. So it makes sense that a film that featured skating first inspired him …
Henry Edwards Wood
Henry Edwards Wood produces skate videos that transcend the boundaries of art and skateboarding cultural documentation. His relentless drive to hone his craft and capture unseen skate talent, impactful tricks and the intangible moments that he manages to …
Zach McAdam
Zach McAdam is a skater and filmmaker from Lancashire who runs the Panasonic Youth brand. His skate crew, based in Sheffield and the North of England, has an eclectic bag of styles and mix of personal tastes but …
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 …
Shaun Currie
Shaun Currie is a skater who lives in Sheffield, England, who’s quick-footed style and slick bag of tricks have seen him become one of the most standout skaters in the UK.
But everybody knows that there’s more to Shaun than …
Kris Vile
Kris Vile is a skateboarder from Birmingham, England who’s been a standout presence on his board since the day he started. He’s always pushing himself to do the gnarliest and most challenging tricks he can on whatever is in front …
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 …
Liam Ashley Clark Reel Cool Interview
Liam Ashley Clark is a skater, illustrator, painter, photographer.
His vivid and diverse mixture of artwork is more than memorable.
Read below to discover how he got inspired to make and find out about all the things that stokes him …
Tom Delves Reel Cool Interview
Tom Delves is a skateboarder and illustrator from London who’s always making new work, taking commissions or out skating the city’s streets.
We sat down with Tom to talk his inspirations, how he got into skateboarding and his favourite things …
Trav Wardle: Reel Cool Interview
Trav Wardle is a skateboarder and artist who has been a part of The No Comply Network since the beginning.
He’s started his own homage clothing brand called Real Fake and has recently been doing a few interesting collaborations so …
Shit Pencil: Reel Cool
Illustration By Shit Pencil
Shit Pencil is a skater and illustrator who makes some of the funniest art on the internet.
His drawings and captions mesh out-of-the-box thinking, pop-culture and his bittersweet life experiences as a skateboarder to make …
Helena Long’s Best Ever Interview
Helena Long is a skater, musician and artist from South-East London. She was one of the first members of The No Comply Network and is one of the best skaters in the UK and beyond.
Her multi-skilled talents have …
Forde Brookfield
Forde is a skater and filmmaker based in Sheffield
I think the relationship between skateboarding and art is on a fine line.
When skateboarding originated although it wasn’t seen as art it was a way of expression for
Sam Barrett: Reel Cool
Serious Sam Barrett is an artist and skateboarder from Yorkshire, England who makes awesome rock music. He’s always making music, playing gigs or touring and skateboarding. He’s been skating for over thirty years.
Sam is as serious about skateboarding as …
Harry Chilcott
Harry is a skater and artist who runs DISJOINTED
I think skateboarding and being creative go hand-in-hand.
Skateboarding exposes you to so many things from fashion, filmmaking, photography… the list is endless but even if you don’t get
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
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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 …
Joey Pressey
Joey is a skater and musician
You skated for Heroin with Fos. How did you get on and how was it skating for them?
I’d just moved to London and had a flat to myself in Ladbroke Grove.
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Callun Loomes
Callun Loomes is a filmer who runs Get Lesta
What’s your approach to skateboarding, design and filmmaking?
Wing it. No – I’m sure, like me, everyone looks back at things they did and thinks, ‘What was I thinking?’ …
Rory Nelson
Rory is a West London-based skater, musician and DJ who plays under the name Adibanti
I’m a multi-instrumentalist ,playing keys, guitar, bass, sax, synths and I sing but I write and produce all different types of music from, Underground
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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
Callum Sidlauskas
Callum Sidlauskas is a skater and artist from Birmingham
I’m a big fan of Polar and Fucking Awesome and think they’ve always got it on point. Music is an inspiration to me. I always like listening to tunes to
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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, …
Jazz Wade
Jazz is a skater and illustrator
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 …
Shit Pencil
Alex AKA Shit Pencil is a skater and artist
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
Neddy
Neddy is a skater and filmmaker based in Oxford, England
There’s always been a strong relationship between skateboarding and making films. I think watching UK videos like Blueprint’s WFTW, the Viewfinder series and First Broadcast got me hyped on
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 …
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
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
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
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Charles Neilson
Charles Neilson is a skater and artist based in Ireland
I work in Illustration, animation and motion graphics. I’ve worked for Frank Skateboards, Stance Socks, Grey Skate Mag, FTC Barcelona and Brut Magazine. I spend my time skateboarding or
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
Dan Joyce
Dan is a skateboarder and filmmaker and photographer. He starred in MTV UK’s ‘Dirty Sanchez’
I run my own film company Joyce Division and I have started taking 35mm photography and I’ve just made my first zine this year.
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
Dinero DIY
Dinero DIY is a skateable art experience in Spain
We are Levanna and Eve. We are skaters, DJs and DIY makers.
Art and skateboarding are instrinsically linked and we love to explore ideas that fuse the two together.
Vincent Jugnet
Vincent Jugnet is a skater and filmer from Lyon, France
Music is one of the most inspiring things to me, when I hear a song I like, I’ll be thinking right away of how I can edit it, or
The Hated Skateboards
The Hated are a collective of skateboarders and artists
Our relationship with skating is a love/hate one, we love to skate and hate injuries. We love creativity…having an idea and pursuing that into something real is very satisfying. starting
Zulu Kruze
Zulu is a skateboarder and musician from London
Growing up, skateboarding and music had a huge impact on my life and they definitely both go well with each other! I haven’t had a lot of time to skate lately …
Bobbi Abbey
Bobbi is a skater and painter-illustrator based in Leeds
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
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,
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Russ Longmire
Russ is a skateboarder and illustrator from Liverpool
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
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 …
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,
Pete Sharp
Pete is a skater and artist
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
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.
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George Booth-Cole
George is a skateboarder and photographer
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.
Niels Rost
Niels is an artist and skateboarder
After living in Colchester for eight years, I moved back to Berlin in 2010, where I’m still living now. In England, aside from gaining a pretty strong Essex accent, I grew up skating
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Tom Lodge
Tom is a skater and illustrator
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
Dwayne Coleman
Dwayne is a skateboarder and artist based in London
I don’t want to make ‘skart’ – I think most skate-art is pretty bad and repetitive but I don’t wanna say that it doesn’t influence my work. I guess the main
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
Greg Herbert
Greg is a skater and artist
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
Nathaniel Jones
Nathaniel Jones is a skater and graphic designer based in Bristol
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
Andy Evans
Andy is a skateboarder and filmmaker from Brighton
Well, skateboarding and film and video have always gone hand in hand.
It’s the evidence of your four-wheeled conquests. I feel I’ve always wanted to document these stand out happenings
Celeste Pearce AKA Version Girl
Celeste is a skate culture fan and DJ who runs Version Girl
I don’t do any one thing, to be honest, I do a selection of things to keep me busy which I enjoy. I love reggae, so I
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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 …
Chris Mann
Chris is a skater and photographer
As with many others, skateboarding certainly influenced and continues to inform my interest in photography.
It’s rather cliche but photographs are an intrinsic part of how we relate to skateboarding.
It’s
Jenna Selby
Jenna is a skater and photographer based in London
For me skateboarding and photography have always has gone hand in hand.
I started photographing friends down at Long Live Southbank in the late ‘90’s ( which was also
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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.
Fred Mortagne
Fred Mortagne is a filmer and photographer
It’s skateboarding that developed my creative side, so they are definitely totally linked up. I truly think it is something that needs to be promoted.
Being creative is something important in
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Vincent Kelsey
Vincent is a skater and filmer who runs Reckless Abandon
My names Vincent Kelsey, but everyone calls me Vinnie.
I own my own little brand called Reckless Abandon, we make clothing and I do all the illustrations, graphics
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
Cosmo Pyke
Cosmo is a skateboarder, singer-songwriter from South London
I think the relationship between skateboarding and making art is an important one.
Because the skateboard can be an instrument too and you can make sounds and movements out of
Cosme
Cosme is a skateboarder and illustrator who lives in London
Skateboarding has taught me to look at things. I face all things the same way I learned to face a spot or to try a trick.
Some days …
Tom Delion
Tom is a skater and artist from Deptford
Well I’m not the first to say this, but I feel that there are distinct similarities between street photography and street skating.
If you go out to shoot without a …
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 …
Austin Bristow
Austin is a skateboarder and filmer for Palace
When filming skateboarding it helps to have a good rapport with the skater that I am filming, this way, we vibe off of each-other and motivate one another.
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Gaurab Thakali
Gaurab is a skater and illustrator
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 …
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
Nick Richards
Nick is a skater and filmmaker from Cardiff
Skating is open to interpretation on all levels, and the best skate films follow no particular pattern or formula.
Most new creations in our world are things that we’ve seen, …
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 …
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.
It’s an outdated joke aimed at people who still huffed glue from plastic bags.…
Daryl Dominguez
Daryl is a skater and DJ sponsored by Vans
Skateboarding is an expressive and creative art form in itself, so naturally the relationship it shares with other creative outlets like art and music are similar. They vibrate on a …
Dave The Chimp
Dave is a skater and artist who makes art, music and video
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, …
Jon Horner
Jon is a skater and illustrator
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
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Danny Bulmer
Danny is a skater and photographer from Bournemouth
Skateboarding and documenting the act itself go hand in hand.
To me, there is nothing better than being able to freeze time, rewind and then relive the moment!
I
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.
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
Jim Knight
Jim is a skateboarder and filmer-photographer
Skateboarding, photography and film are similar in a lot of ways. Each person involved has their own style and always have to bring creativity to any given situation.
This is probably why
Joel Perry
Joel is a skateboarder, motion graphics artist and filmmaker
Skateboarding and filmmaking go hand in hand, skating wouldn’t be where it is without the filmmakers.
Film lets you document your scene and capture memories. I fuse skateboarding with
Lewis Royden
Lewis is a skater and photographer from Liverpool
I believe having a creative process in your life is essential, skateboarders are lucky cos’ even though skating itself is super creative most skaters have another artistic direction as well. Looking
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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