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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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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. Her skating is interesting to watch and so we wanted to find out how she got …

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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 skate videos made in the area and delivered something fresh, unique and unseen for his skate …

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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 ramp era but if you watch his footage you can see he’s adapted his taste …

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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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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 to gain from it except the thrill of learning new tricks, having great times and getting …

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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 his lens. From watching them you see he’s crafted a solid creative standpoint and a …

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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 and media in the late 90s and now creating as a filmer-editor John is a driving …

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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 the North and South of England and witnessing his ability to pop on and over stairs, …

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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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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 came to our last Beyond Skateboarding jam and put down some of the heaviest tricks …

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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 to get a board. Originally from Truro in Cornwall, England he now lives in Sheffield …

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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 witness behind his lens have been lucky enough to be delivered to our screens for the …

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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 share an undeniable ability for absolutely ripping the street spots that they find in their cities …

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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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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 his skating, he’s humble, hilarious and has a creative mind and talent for comedy. So …

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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 of him. It’s tough to nail down exactly how many tough tricks he does in …

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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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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 jokes about the stuff that make us all laugh and cry. He’s reel cool so we had …

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Forde Brookfield

Forde is a skater and filmmaker based in Sheffield, England 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 many people. Respectfully, you get a tonne of people who don’t see skateboarding as an art …

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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 he is about making music so we caught up with him to discover his favourite things …

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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 into anything more traditionally creative, it brings your own style out of you. whether its in your …

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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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Vegan Bones

Adam Connett is a skater who runs skate zine ISNBH. I run ‘I Should Not Be Here’, a South-London based collective of skateboarders, photographers and illustrators. Everything from board graphics through to videos is a creative process. Let alone skateboarding as a creative outlet itself. For us it was just getting a bunch of likeminded …

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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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Joey Pressey

Joey is a skateboarder 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. I was really straight – had stopped drinking and smoking – and was on a mission, …

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Callun Loomes

Callun Loomes is a filmer who runs Get Lesta   The DVD cover for Get Lesta’s ‘Get 420’   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?’ But obviously you get influenced by …

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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 & I sing) but I write and produce all different types of music from, Underground Pop, through UK Garage, House & Techno. I aIso work for the company Skates & Ladders …

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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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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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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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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 VX1000 MK1 setups so I have drifted from that over the years but always ended up …

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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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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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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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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. I plan to make some more and I have started making my own boards too. I …

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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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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 what skater I know it could fit with. The cool thing with the internet is that …

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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 but need to incorporate it more into my music, the whole lifestyle has molded me into …

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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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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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Pierre Melion

Pierre is a skater and photographer based in London. Skateboarding and photography are similar in the sense that you can set your own rules, pace, and engagement.   What I mean by this, is that the idea of having structured success metrics for both photography and skateboarding is none existent, because personal success within these …

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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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Niels Rost

Niels is an artist and skateboarder from Germany 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 with an awesome crew of friends.   I’m currently still at uni studying Visual Communication, …

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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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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 things that bleed into my work from skateboarding are more subtle, like the colloquial language …

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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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Andy Evans

Andy is a skateboarder and filmmaker from Brighton, England. Well, skateboarding and film/video have always gone hand in hand. Its the evidence of your four-wheeled conquests. I feel I’ve always wanted to document these stand out happenings but also all the silly things that go on particularly in the UK skate culture which traditionally has …

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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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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 a relationship that synonymously thrives with context, skateboarding gives you the accessibility to some interesting locations and …

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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 around the same time I started skating) and I have never really stopped. I have always …

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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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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 life. I don’t think our school systems are really trying to help the kids being creative. It …

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Vincent Kelsey

Vincent is a skater and filmer who runs Reckless Abandon Clothing 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 and monthly videos. I do everything you see apart from some of the photos, the other …

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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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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 I use skating more of an escape. Little mid-week holidays. Ed Templeton inspired me to take pictures …

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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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Cosmo Pyke

Cosmo is a skateboarder, singer-songwriter and guitarist 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 it that you never imagined when you started, just like playing the guitar. I don’t really …

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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 I feel clumsy and other days it feels natural and it is all really easy. It doesn’t …

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Tom Delion

Tom is a skater and artist from Deptford, South East London. 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 real plan the formula is really similar to looking for skate spots, you keep …

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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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Austin Bristow

Austin is a skateboarder and filmer for Palace Skateboards “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 videos are my main inspiration. I think that the aesthetics and the spots look amazing especially …

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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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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 ways to do things. As cliche as it sounds, skateboarding as a whole inspires me. I …

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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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Tracy Gray

Tracy is a visual artist who documents skate culture. My creative process is based on having as much fun as humanly possible. The GET STUFFED! pizza zine was exactly that. I had about 4 years’ worth of photos at home and I knew I wanted to make a zine with them. The images were from …

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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, emulated and reinterpreted. The same applies to the way I do my stuff. I’ll see something I …

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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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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 mutual level. Skateboarding is my first love and its taught me how to channel my own …

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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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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 surround myself in skateboarding all day every day so I guess it’s all pretty inspiring to me. It …

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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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