BOARD exhibition NGV Studio

NGV Studio: BOARD
In Conversation: Alex Baker & Tony Hallam
Thurs 1 Dec, 6pm & 19 Jan, 6pm

Join Alex Baker and Tony Hallam in conversation at NGV Studio and discover how board graphics and design have evolved from the 1970s & 80s to today. BOARD features highlights from Hallam’s world-renowned skateboard collection.

Speakers Tony Hallam, former Pro Skater & Alex Baker, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art
Free, NGV Studio, Federation Square, Flinders and Russell Streets

BOARD
12 Nov – 5 Feb

BOARD is all about the creativity behind skate culture.
Presenting 1970s & 80s skateboards and ephemera from Tony Hallam’s collection alongside contemporary decks created for the exhibition, BOARD explores the evolution of board graphics and design.
Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Alex Baker states: ‘Tony Hallam’s collection digs deep into the formative years of skate culture during which board graphics evolved from simple lettering to elaborate artwork. Once a professional skateboarder, Hallam has gone to painstaking lengths to track down some of the most important boards in history. On view at NGV Studio are gems such as Tony Hawk’s first signature model (1982) and an early Zephyr board (mid-1970s) personally owned by skateboard legend Stacy Peralta. The selection of skateboards and ephemera in Board allows an insight into skateboarding’s surfing roots through to its cross-fertilisation with punk rock and other renegade sub-cultures. Hallam’s is considered one of the most comprehensive skateboard collections in the world, and the NGV is honoured to present it to both avid skate fans and non-initiates alike. This is an important lesson in another form of art history – one that speaks a language that originated on the streets and is ongoing today.’

Juxtaposing the old with the new is a wall of decks by approximately 50 Australian artists working across a range of media curated by Just Another Agency in support of the Three Sixty Project.

any pic’s?

Anyone keen on going to the 19th January talk/viewing?

wish they did this kinda thing in Sydney… I woulda gone along fo sho