Dion Agius’ mixture of aerial flair, creativity and industry savvy has made him a successful entrepreneur who can still rumble with the best free surfers in the game. The Australian goofy-footer is always across multiple different projects and has a number of job titles in his name. His current workload involves running the creative direction for newly established eyewear brand Ritual Vision, alongside his freesurfing pals Harry Bryant and Noa Deane, shooting his part for the upcoming Former movie, filming and editing other surf related projects, as well as a host of other artistic ventures.
His most recent passion project has involved recycling and repurposing old surfboards by turning them into household items such as stools, lamps and wall hangings. One of the collections was crafted by Dion in nine days while he was staying at Uluwatu Surf Villas in Bali. The crew behind one of the Bukit’s premiere hang out spots documented the process for their latest YouTube series ‘Made Here’, which spotlights the surfers, photographers, musicians, chefs, and dreamers who create while staying there.
Here’s what Dion had to say about the project:
“Noid is the name of the new creative project I’ve been doing which is essentially taking old and broken surfboards and recycling them into furniture, sculptures, I’ve been making side tables, lamps, wall hangings, whatever I’ve kind of just been coming up with anything. Trying to utilize ways to come up with whatever is left of the board and then repurposing it.
“I broke my leg a year and a half ago, I was out of the water and I was living with Ozzy Wright. You’re living with Ozzy and he’s one of the most creative people I know and he’s someone I grew up aspiring to be like. He had a bunch of broken boards, I had a bunch of broken boards and I thought maybe I could make a couple of little side tables out of this or something.”
Dion’s inspiration for his Bali collection came from the coral and sea life at low tide Ulus, as well as his vision of an Indo fantasy island.
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