DIY Skateboarding = Anarchy
19.10.10
From the lounge room, to the bedroom, DIY skateboarding is the movement that leaves no space void of its active art form. Twists, flips and ollieing are taking place in houses and warehouses all over Australia thanks to the skateboarders who are in it purely for the love of the expression, not the commercial endorsement.
Beg, Borrow, Steal is an exhibition of Tristan Still’s photographic works capturing the art of DIY skateboarding in action. Tristan became enchanted with skateboarding and photography, together, at the age of sixteen years old, capturing his first images on his dads borrowed Pentax Spotmatic X camera and sharing a KMART skateboard with his best friend Lynch, the passion was pure.
Since then Tristan has travelled the world cementing the athletic skills of skateboarding in grainy images that reflect the rawness of this art form. Singular moments of explosive kinetic energy are frozen into a stoic image of lithe beauty.
Tristan’s artworks balance tension and freedom in a way that makes the viewer feel as though they were part of the moment when the furtive action took place and the fact that it is someone’s bedroom or living room adds an invigorated humanity to these active artworks.
DIY skateboarding is a movement of abstract, creative anarchy that remains harmonious in its bid for freedom from commercial restraint and Tristan’s photography is the direct medium catching every moment of its infused energy.
Bar Borrow Steel opens at the ambush gallery in Waterloo tomorrow night and runs until the 30th of October.
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