James Brown

The Adelaide designer and artist on street food, street art and the importance of sabbaticals.

- Harriet Davidson

I’m from the dry north-eastern ’burbs of Adelaide, where every kid had crazy freedom and was moderately naughty. At 11 I would take the bus to the city to skateboard and graffiti the back of the bus. At 13 I would catch the train to Melbourne with my pals. Skateboarding and graffiti take you to weird and wonderful places; they gave me a sense of architecture, shape, texture and art, all integrated. It makes you appreciate very weird things, like the detail in concrete and stairs.