‘Beg, Borrow, Steal’ exhibition
A photographic exploration of DIY skateboarding.
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An exhibition by Australian photographer, Tristan Still documenting people's DIY skate ramps opened at the amBUSH Gallery in Sydney yesterday.
Tristan's polaroid-centric work has a perfect matter-of-fact, unaffected nature that perfectly captures the fleeting rawness of a world reliant on imagination. His quest: to find die-hard skaters doing it for themselves and re-appropriating space to install a lovingly hand-wrought ramp.
Says Still: "Often synonymous with anarchic ideology – an affront to government, authority and corporate endorsement (we’ll tolerate skateboarding as long as we can make money from you) – DIY skateboarding has promoted autonomy and self-sustainability through the creative re-use and re-purposing of the built environment and the refuse of society."
If you're in Sydney this is definitely one to check out. Those of us who aren't enjoying the joys of spring will have to make do with his website.
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‘Beg, Borrow, Steal’ exhibition (text) by Liz Seabrook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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