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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Doosie Morris

‘Hopefully people don’t think I made a shrine to myself’: a portrait gifted to a fellow skateboarder

A man in a dark blue jacket and brown trousers reclining on a grey-blue couch; behind him is an abstract portrait incorporating skateboard parts and a photograph of a skateboarder.
‘The fact that he went to all that trouble afterwards was just really sweet’: Morgan Campbell with the portrait by Japanese-born street artist Hiroyasu Tsuri, AKA Twoone. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian

In 2008, prop master and professional skateboarder Morgan Campbell was sitting on a friend’s front verandah in Melbourne. A man on a bicycle rode by and Campbell’s friends called out to him: How many have you done now?

“He yelled back 487, or something,” says Campbell.

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