Billy Apple / NZ USA

Billy Apple was born Barrie Bates in Auckland in 1935. In 1959 he left New Zealand on a National Art Gallery scholarship. He studied at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1959 until 1962. In 1962 he changed his name to Billy Apple and moved to New York in 1964. In 1969 he established Apple, one of the first alternative spaces in New York. In the 1970s, he returned to New Zealand twice, with support from the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, each time exhibiting in spaces throughout the country. He returned to New Zealand, permanently in 1990. He lives in Auckland.

DECK:
WHITE / BLACK GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
BEAR GRIZZLY 852 BLACK /
8MM AXLES
WHEELS:
Bennett Alligator RED 71mm
(PORT)
Bennett Alligator Green 71mm (STARBOARD)
EDITION: TWO

DECK:
BLACK / WHITE GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
BEAR GRIZZLY 852 BLACK /
8MM AXLES
WHEELS:
Bennett Alligator RED 71mm
(PORT)
Bennett Alligator Green 71mm (STARBOARD)
EDITION: TWO

Ben Buchanan / NZ

Ben Buchanan was born in New Plymouth in 1973. He graduated from Otago Art School and later completed a post-graduate diploma from Elam, Auckland University. He has exhibited prolifically around Auckland and has been involved in group shows in both Dublin and New York. Buchanan’s work is influenced by the ‘patterns of nature and culture’ – juxtaposing the natural with synthetic, the hand-made with the mass-produced. These often graphic images hold an ambiguous quality, shifting between the abstract and the pictorial.

DECK:
WOOD / BLACK + GREY +
WHITE GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
Landyachtz Hawgs BLACK 76mm
EDITION: TEN

Build / UK

Michael C. Place was born in North Yorkshire, England in 1969. He graduated from Newcastle College in 1990 and started work at The Designers Republic, Sheffield in 1992 where he worked for 9 years. In 2001 he started Build, a London based graphic design studio which prides itself on its craft-like approach to print. Build has since forged an international reputation as a forward-thinking graphic design studio with an exceptional eye for detail and a unique style.

DECK:
GREY / BLACK + WHITE GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
Landyachtz Hawgs BLACK 76mm
EDITION: TEN

Ed Fella / USA

Ed Fella is an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography. He practiced professionally as a commercial artist in Detroit for 30 years before receiving an MFA in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. He has since devoted his time to teaching at the California Institute for the Arts and his own unique self-published work which has appeared in many design publications and anthologies. In 1997 he received the Chrysler Award and in 1999 an Honorary Doctorate from CCS in Detroit. His work is in the National Design Museum and MOMA in New York.

DECK:
WOOD / BLACK + WHITE GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
Landyachtz Hawgs BLACK 76mm
EDITION: TEN

DECK:
BLACK / WHITE GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
Abec11 FLUORO GREEN
Gumballs 76mm
EDITION: TEN

Hailwood / NZ

Adrian Hailwood has established a reputation as one of New Zealand’s leading fashion designers. His collections receive international acclaim and he is regularly featured in fashion magazines including Australian Vogue, Marie Claire and Fashion Quarterly.

DECK 1:
BLACK / GREY GRAPHIC
DECK 2:
WHITE / SNIFTER GREEN GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
HOT Pink Seven-O 70mm
EDITION: TEN

Richard Killeen / NZ

Richard Killeen was born in Auckland in 1947. He graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Auckland in 1966. Killeen had his first solo exhibition in 1970 and produced his first cut-out paintings in 1978. He has exhibited widely in New Zealand, Australia and New York. He is represented in New Zealand by Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington and Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch.

DECK:
GREY / BLACK + WHITE GRAPHIC
WHEELS:
Landyachtz Hawgs BLACK 76mm
EDITION: TEN

DECK:
WHITE / BLACK + RED GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
Landyachtz Hawgs BLACK 76mm
Also available in red
EDITION: TEN

DECK:
BLACK / WHITE + RED GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
Landyachtz Hawgs BLACK 76mm
Also available in red
EDITION: TEN

Tony Lane / NZ

Tony Lane was born in Kati Kati, New Zealand in 1949. He graduated with a Diploma of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University in 1970. He moved to Wellington in 1974 and was based there for twenty-five years. Lane has also exhibited extensively in New Zealand and Europe. Since 2002 he has lived and worked in Auckland. He is represented by Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland and Nadene Milne Gallery, Queenstown.

DECK:
WOOD / GOLD LEAF +
WHITE GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
Landyachtz Hawgs BLACK 76mm
EDITION: TEN

Howard Matil / NZ

“1977, Britain’s first ever summer. Aged 6, my best friend’s dad had built him a skateboard. Rather rudimentary in design we took turns riding the small wooden rectangle on wheels. Sitting down on the deck, knees tucked under chin, we rolled down a slight gradient into his father’s garage. Later that summer the release of Star Wars meant the end of our skateboarding for summer activities.”
Matil is a designer, illustrator,
artist working in Auckland.

DECK:
GREY/ WHITE GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
Landyachtz Hawgs BLACK 76mm
EDITION: TEN

Liz Maw / NZ

Liz Maw was born in Wellington in 1966 and grew up in Napier. She moved to Auckland in 1995 and now works as a full time painter. Maw has regular exhibitions at Ivan Anthony Gallery in Auckland and Peter McLeavey Gallery in Wellington.

DECK:
WHITE / POWDER BLUE GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
Bennett Alligator
ULTRAMARINE BLUE 71mm
EDITION: TEN

Andrew McLeod / NZ

Andrew McLeod was born in 1976. His prolific practice encompasses drawings, paintings, prints and books, each blurring into the next, jetsam compiled as an alluring insight into the artist’s observations, both real and imagined.
They are a private world made public. He is represented in New Zealand by Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington and Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch.

DECK:
BLACK / DARK GREY + WHITE GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 852 - BLACK / 8mm axles
WHEELS:
Landyachtz Hawgs BLACK 76mm
EDITION: TEN

Denis O'Connor / NZ

Denis O’Connor’s sculpture ranges from public monuments to the most private and intimate narratives. Since 1985 he has re-imagined the potential of stone as a material relevant to contemporary art. Collaborations with painters, architects and poets have been a crucial component of his practice. His work is well represented in all of New Zealand’s major public collections, and he has received many prestigious public commissions. O’Connor is represented by Two Rooms in Auckland and regularly exhibits in Ireland.

DECK:
WOOD / BLACK GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
Landyachtz Hawgs BLUE 76mm
EDITION: TEN

Rainbow Monkey / DE

The Rainbowmonkey represents the personal portfolio of designer, musician and artist Markus Hofko. Born and raised in Augburg, Germany, the Rainbowmonkey is currently living and working in Auckland, New Zealand.

DECK:
WOOD / WHITE GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
Landyachtz Hawgs BLACK 76mm
EDITION: TEN

John Reynolds / NZ

Allan Smith once described John Reynolds’ work as “intoxicating, indecorous, hedonistic, romantic, sublime, mythopoetic, epic and visionary, excessive and cloying. Satanic and heavenly, restless; his compositions as turbulent, angelic, chromatic, shimmering and exfoliating, internally stressed, externally unhinged, and ornamental; his iconography as reminiscent of blood vessels and hallucinated architecture.” He is represented in Auckland by Sue Crockford Gallery in Auckland and Peter McLeavey Gallery in Wellington.

DECK:
WOOD / BLACK + RED GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
Landyachtz Hawgs BLACK 76mm
EDITION: TEN

DECK:
GREY / BLACK + WHITE GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
Landyachtz Hawgs BLACK 76mm
Also available in red
EDITION: TEN

Wunderkammer / NZ

Wunderkammer (Cabinets of Curiosity). The brainchild of Mr Mark Crane has enjoyed a well respected, low profile existence since 2002. Inspired by the meticulously handcrafted portrayal of Renaissance Europe’s finest cabinets, Crane has indulged himself in a quiet pastime creating his own representation for his Auckland store. Situated on Ponsonby Road the installation at his own contemporary cabinet draws on the basic quest for knowledge of the bizarre and rare natural history art and artefact. Wunderkammer is the exclusive stockist of Comme des Garçons, Ann Demeulemeester and Costume National menswear in New Zealand.

DECK:
WHITE / BLACK GRAPHIC
TRUCKS:
Bear Grizzly 1052 / 10mm axles
WHEELS:
Landyachtz Hawgs BLACK 76mm
EDITION: TEN

Design: Arch MacDonnell
Special thanks to all of the contributing artists, the team at Landyachtz Canada, Bruce, Serge and Deano at RH Page, Plytech, Dave at Geon, Tony at CCG Industries, Neil Campbell and Emma Fox at Webb’s, Red Bull, Eazeman, King, Scott and everyone at Inhouse.
You all rule.

© 2008