18 October 2023 • Mark Westall
The Design Museum today unveiled its major exhibition on skateboard design — and revealed that London’s newest skate ramp has been built inside the exhibition gallery.
25 July 2023 • Mark Westall
A major skateboarding design exhibition to open in London at the Design Museum this Autumn.
3 June 2021 • Gaston La-Gaffe
As the saying goes, “everything old is new again.” That’s held for nearly every era and style. However, in skating culture, some trends have never gone away, so it makes sense that plenty of OG skate styles are still relevant today.
27 March 2019 • Mark Westall
Artists James Jarvis and Ged Wells have a shared obsession with skateboarding, having both worked for iconic London skateboard shop Slam City Skates in the late 80s and early 90s. Meeting recently for the first time, the two are now collaborating on an exhibition – PLANK, exploring and celebrating the object that has informed and defined both their early career paths.
31 July 2018 • Mark Westall
A definitive history of Skateboarding in the UK from 1978–1995 The Read and Destroy archive book project.
6 July 2018 • Mark Westall
Against the Grain: Skate Culture and the Camera is an exhibition that celebrates the phenomena of skateboarding, with the photographers and filmmakers who documented the movement. Despite the subculture’s influence and resonance in almost every aspect of popular culture, this emblem of freedom and rebellion has been largely ignored as an artistic form.
18 December 2015 • Mark Westall
A group of skateboard enthusiasts and a Madrid street artist convert abandoned church into mural-covered skatepark
30 September 2015 • Mark Westall
Liverpool Biennial has commissioned South Korean artist Koo Jeong A to create a glow-in-the-dark skate park for Everton Park (it’ll be like this one she designed in Vassiviere Island in France)
27 January 2015 • Mark Westall
After a ceremonial event to mark the preservation of the hallowed undercroft is blocked, skaters must question how open the space really is
