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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

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

@don_brown

 

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

@concreterhythms

 

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

@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

Mike Manzoori

@wigworland

 

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

Josh Simpson

@bbillyyy

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

@bradderz111

 

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

@sharphoto

 

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

@bentimstewart

 

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

@t_dawg_skatez

 

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

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.

 …

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

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

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

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,

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.

 …

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

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

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

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

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

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;

Pani Paul

Pani is a skater and photographer based in London

 

Skateboarding does not inspire my photography. It’s more just something I do to take my mind off photography if that makes sense?

 

Photography is my job you know so

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

Sam Hutchinson AKA Blinky

Sam Hutchinson is a skater, 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

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.

 

UK skate

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 …

Joe Buddle

Joe is a skateboarder and photographer from London

 

I guess skateboarding and my approach to taking photos are pretty similar. Both take a whole lot of trial and error. Every time I shoot I’m learning and thinking about new

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

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

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

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