James Turvey

Poster for Sprawlers #10, featuring Adam Tabone. My zines can be purchased here.

The latest issues of my zine, Sprawlers, has been out for a couple of months now and is available to purchase here. Cover: Ben Cox, bs nosegrind c1996. Photo: Aaron Brown.

An ad I made for Sprawlers featured in the latest issue of No Negative zine. Photo: Adam Tabone, bs 180 reverse nosegrind, The Pond, Newcastle NSW.

I've got a couple of articles in the latest issue of Slam Skateboarding Magazine, including an article about sewer skating and the influence of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Purchase Slam from your local skateshop, newsagent or online here.

Big thank you to Laurise Dickson for including me in this article about the infamous Ridge Street Ramp for the ABC. Click the link to see some amazing old photos of Sean Mussett aka Gravel Burns.

My latest project, Trucks, is a two volume zine set containing every skateboarding article, advertisement and photo from Tracks surfing magazine in the 1970s. It can be purchased here if you're interested in that kind of thing.

I wrote a history piece for the 35th Anniversary issue of Slam Skateboarding Magazine. Slam Magazine can be purchased here.

Read the interview I did with 2024 Slam Skateboarding Magazine New Gen winner, Jedd McKenzie here.

Issue 9 of Sprawlers, my skate zine, has been out for a little while now. Forty-four A5 pages of full colour Australian skate action. Cover: Jake Dempsey fs noseblunt slide. Photo: Brendan Frost. Available here.

Slam is available from all good skate shops and newsagents Australia wide, as well as online here.

I interviewed Rowan Davis for the June 2023 issue of Thrasher Magazine. Definitely one for the bucket list. Big thanks to Rowan and Michael Sieben for hooking it up.

Fellow skate writer, Josh Sabini, and I had a chat about the new book I’m working on (amongst other things) via Zoom the other day. Then Josh went away and turned it into a really nice interview for Monster Children. Thanks, Josh! 

I interviewed the iconic Australian skate photographer, Aaron Brown, about his new book, Backlight in the Grain: Angels of Skateboarding, for Slam Skateboarding Magazine issue 236. You can find Slam in all good skate shops and newsagents across Australia, or purchase a digital copy here.

Nat Kassel interviewed me about collecting and archiving Australian skate mags, as well as the concept behind Shralp for Slam Skateboarding Magazine issue 235. You can support Slam by purchasing a digital copy here.

Billy Harris wrote a really rad article about my exhibition, Shralp, in the latest issue of his zine, No Negative. Thanks Billy! For more No Negative, see Billy’s blog here. 

Shralp article from the Newcastle Herald by Alex Morris. Photo by Paul Dear. 

I interviewed Connor Reeve for the latest issue of Slam Skateboarding Magazine. This is the second time I’ve interviewed Connor for Slam and it’s inspiring to see how much he’s progressed. Issue 234 is available from all good skate shops and newsagents across Australia or a digital version can be purchased here. Portrait (along with all photos in the interview) by Sam Coady.