Episode 79 with Esther Sayers, artist, researcher, gallery educator, lecturer and skateboarder from London, England.
Together we discussed her life and career from studying art in the early 90’s to her current role at the Goldsmiths University of London, picking up her first board in 2017 at the age of 47 and how it’s affected her life from then on, connecting with the local and broader skate community, her involvement with the Hackney Bumps Regeneration project and the City Mill Skate Research project at UCL East, her upcoming projects…

(00:13) – Intro
(01:25) – Getting started
(02:00) – Artist Educator
(06:56) – PhD in Philosophy
(16:04) – Starting skateboarding with her son
(24:23) – First time stepping on a board
(27:11) – Skating in skateparks for the first time
(30:47) – Dealing with injuries
(38:02) – Connecting with people in the skateboarding industry/community
(42:53) – Consuming skate media
(47:10) – Free Skatemag interview: “We’re always learning”
(51:21) – Skateboarding as an obsession
(54:49) – Hackney Bumps
(01:03:20) – City Mill Skate
(01:12:39) – Panel discussion in May and Chelsea Gardens
(01:18:09) – What could be your “next” skateboarding?
(01:25:00) – Friends questions
(01:25:03) – Aga from Everyone on boards
(01:31:05) – Josh Sutton
(01:33:46) – Sander Hölsgens
(01:35:06) – David Gough
(01:51:40) – Iain Borden
(02:00:45) – Gustav Edén
(02:08:00) – Åsa Bäckström
(02:09:33) – Paul O’Connor
(02:15:59) – Indigo Willing
(02:19:07) – John Dahlquist and George Nicholls
(02:36:10) – Conclusion

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https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36857