{"id":2360,"date":"2016-06-08T15:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-458273-1435032.cloudwaysapps.com\/?page_id=2360"},"modified":"2023-06-28T15:19:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T15:19:21","slug":"arran-gregory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocomplynetwork.com\/arran-gregory\/","title":{"rendered":"Arran Gregory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arran Gregory is an artist and skateboarder<\/h1>\n

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

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I think overall my obsession for geometry that’s present in much of my work might be a product of skateboarding and spending years looking at angles and lines and objects in architecture working out what might be possible to skate. Skateboarding tends to build a very spontaneous, impulse type of creativity where you see something and react to it on impulse.<\/div>\n

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Like if you watch Mark Gonzales’ section in Video Days- everything he does in a go-to and expressive DIY way.<\/div>\n

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I think it’s this, DIY, go-to approach that skateboarders transfer to artistic outputs like drawing, illustration and sculpture.<\/div>\n

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The Side Effects of Urethane collective, started by Toby Shuall and Rich Holland, who originally put the Moving Units blocks in Southbank put out a few super inspiring projects for me when I was younger. I remember studying art at school and doing a project on all of that at the time.<\/div>\n

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Aaron Rose’s documentary Beautiful Losers, which is also a book, sums this vibe up quite well and shows how a scene always tends to support and grow its own creativity.<\/div>\n

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I think individually skateboarders can be very impressionable and sheep-like in following trends etc. but overall the ethos is still very D.I.Y and outsider which is what inspires their creativity.<\/div>\n

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Josh Stewart<\/a>‘s Static video series always remind me of what skating\u2019s about and that gets me hyped.<\/div>\n

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Also I find Palace Skateboards interesting as Lev is always moving it in new directions which is good to see.<\/div>\n

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For me personally, I like to just approach the ideas that interest me- whether that’s by making a video, a sculpture or whatever. I’m not into putting up boundaries as a creative and labelling myself as one or the other because it just limits you in my opinion.<\/div>\n

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Slam City Skates really helped put my work on the map while I was studying at university. I started doing T-shirt designs for them and it was a really good intro into the industry.<\/div>\n

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Not always what you know but who you know sometimes. I think being a creative is a lot about the relationships you make and how you manage them as well as the actual artwork you produce, so that part will be really helpful for people.<\/div>\n

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Throughout lockdown I started working on a scorpion. I’ve been modelling it from wood and am still developing the form of it now. It’s an idea I’ve had in mind for a while as a personal project but the timing just felt right with all that’s been happening in the world right now.<\/div>\n

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No shows planned right now what with Covid measures in effect but I’ll hopefully be exhibiting The Scorpion next. I’m also working on a couple of public artworks that have been shortlisted so hopefully I can share that soon.<\/div>\n

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I think The No Comply Network is a really great way of empowering skateboarders to use their own network for sure. Skateboarding as a subculture has an almost infinite amount of creativity flowing out of it so it’s a great place to archive some of this energy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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