Chris Bourke
Chris is an artist and skate shop owner based in Worcester. He's run the fiercely independent Spine Skate Shop for the last 7 and a half years. Despite numerous serious injuries he has been a skater for 21 years now and has worked on his artwork for just as long. For the last two years, he has worked solely in the labour intensive medium of lino prints, cutting and printing each design by hand, so no two prints are the same. His influences are tattoo art (having previously worked as a tattooist), religion/religious art, music, nature and politics. ... Read more
Chris is an artist and skate shop owner based in Worcester. He's run the fiercely independent Spine Skate Shop for the last 7 and a half years. Despite numerous serious injuries he has been a skater for 21 years now and has worked on his artwork for just as long. For the last two years, he has worked solely in the labour intensive medium of lino prints, cutting and printing each design by hand, so no two prints are the same. His influences are tattoo art (having previously worked as a tattooist), religion/religious art, music, nature and politics.
Once printed, his lino print images can then be digitised, cut out, coloured and manipulated, and converted into graphics for stickers, postcards, t-shirts, and skateboards. Chris has produced work for Document Skateboard Magazine, Skateboard and t-shirt graphics for A Third Foot and Death Skateboards and board graphics the US company Consolidated. His work was chosen for the cover of European magazine Modart, and he has also been featured in Sidewalk and Trisickle magazines and the book Concrete to Canvas: Skateboarders' Art. He exhibits his work as part of the Outcrowd Collective and has also had solo shows in London, Holland and in his hometown Worcester.