



Pretty Pretty
Aluminum Sculpture
In his latest sculpture works, cast metal trophies created from discarded skateboards preserve the physical traces of use, repetition, and progression. Rather than concealing wear and damage, the works transform these marks into evidence of experience and meaning. Through acts of preservation and transformation, Chiswell invites viewers to reconsider where significance resides: in beginnings or endings, ideas or objects, and the moments that might otherwise be overlooked or discarded.
In the artist's words:
"I preserve the object that made the achievement possible, reframing damage as value.”
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In his latest sculpture works, cast metal trophies created from discarded skateboards preserve the physical traces of use, repetition, and progression. Rather than concealing wear and damage, the works transform these marks into evidence of experience and meaning. Through acts of preservation and transformation, Chiswell invites viewers to reconsider where significance resides: in beginnings or endings, ideas or objects, and the moments that might otherwise be overlooked or discarded.
In the artist's words:
"I preserve the object that made the achievement possible, reframing damage as value.”
Artwork Information
Year
2026
Materials
Aluminum Sculpture
Dimensions
ARTWORK DIMENSIONS
32 x 8 inches
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“Each work tells it's own story through unique markings and scratches, their own destruction giving rise to a moment, to a memory, to an achievement.”
About the Artist
Luke Chiswell
Recently featured in Architectural Digest, Hypebeast and Vogue UK, painter, sculptor and printmaker Luke Chiswell explores how the continual use of everyday objects--like skateboards and hotel stationery -- can hold a record of aspiration, error and accomplishment.
Photo by Lean Timms
About the Process
Chiswell's Trophies Series
To make works from his "Trophies" series, Chiswell skates on a skateboard until it breaks. During each skating session he repeats a specific word, like "try" or "best" to himself. When the board breaks, Chiswell considers it then a "Trophy" and the word he repeated is carved into it.

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In his latest sculpture works, cast metal trophies created from discarded skateboards preserve the physical traces of use, repetition, and progression. Rather than concealing wear and damage, the works transform these marks into evidence of experience and meaning. Through acts of preservation and transformation, Chiswell invites viewers to reconsider where significance resides: in beginnings or endings, ideas or objects, and the moments that might otherwise be overlooked or discarded.
In the artist's words:
"I preserve the object that made the achievement possible, reframing damage as value.”


















