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 …
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 …
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 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’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 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 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 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 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 …
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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 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 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 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 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 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’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 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 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 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 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 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’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 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 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 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 …
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 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 …
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
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 …
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
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 …
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Wing it. No – I’m sure, like me, everyone looks back at things they did and thinks, ‘What was I thinking?’ …
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
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, …
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 …
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
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 …
Skateboarding and art go hand in hand. Skateboarding is an art form and there are so many skateboarders out there killing
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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 …
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
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
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 …
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,
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
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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.
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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 …
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
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.
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
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
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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
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, …
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 …
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.…
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 …
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, …
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!
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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.
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
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
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
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