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For the Love of the Art

Over the years, I’ve spent much time—probably far too much time—finding ways to make my life simple to run. The biggest of these was to go minimal with everything. At one point, I was quite the evangelist about it to the point that both Beccy and Wayne got on board the programme. Getting shot of all the junk in your life—physical, digital and otherwise is a huge sigh of relief to the soul. The less you have, the less there is to concern yourself about but it has other repercussions too. It knocks on to a massive sense of freedom. Like… remember when you were a kid and only had one coat? You didn’t spend a whole lot of time wondering which jacket to wear that’s for sure and nobody ever…

For the Love of the Art

THE WOMAN IN THE WOODS

So, my boy is only three months old, which means he’s way too young to appreciate tattoos but not too young for me to feel the pressure to drag him along to organised baby classes. These, he does not enjoy. Whilst twenty-five other mini humans smile along to a wonderfully enthusiastically and unbelievably patient course leader singing along to the Tellytubbies’ theme song, the little cynic in front of me repeatedly pulls a face which I have come to learn is the official ‘what on earth is this shit, mum?!’ face. After the session, other babies his age are grabbing at textile books, cooing at the pictures and even playing in the ball pool. He’s having none of it. I decide not to go back until he’s a little older. Later…

THE WOMAN IN THE WOODS

ARTIFICIAL NATURAL BEAUTY

Audrey Glass has been in the permanent makeup industry for almost 4 years. She specialises in micro-blading and freckles. At her studio, Audrey Glass Cosmetic Tattoo in Los Angeles California, freckle tattoos have proved so popular that she now employs 4 artists offering clients the chance to look a little bit like Princess Megan. As we sip strong coffee in her studios waiting area a steady stream of clients file in and out the shop. Business is clearly booming. I’m in two minds as to whether freckle tattoos are a good idea but Audrey has no such uncertainty. “I have personally been getting freckles tattooed for over five years and I think they’re a great idea if they’re done well.” It’s clear from the customers visiting her studio that freckle tattoos are appealing…

ARTIFICIAL NATURAL BEAUTY

AUGMENTED REALITY

The future of tattooing has arrived and its name is augmented reality. Mexican born Olo Sabandijia has made history by creating the first augmented reality tattoo that enables him to play a virtual video game. Matt Haddon-Reichardt hopped on a plane to meet Olo and see firsthand his high tech ink. THE PROBLEM WAS THAT I WAS ALSO TERRIFIED OF THE LIFELONG COMMITMENT OF A TATTOO… “I love tattoos and I love video games; combining the two was my dream,” explains Olo as he shows me the NES controller inked on his arm that acts as the key to shifting reality. “I have a degree in Design and Visual Communication and I have basic notions of coding. I wanted a tattoo since I was 15 but I wanted a design made by myself.…

AUGMENTED REALITY

Tattoos with Higher Purpose AS ABOVE, SO BELOW

Art can be an expression of many things. It can be primal and contemplative, beautiful and ugly, crass and elegant—sometimes it can be all of these things at once. It comes from within and without, from above and below. Art is everything and it’s nothing, it lifts us and it grinds us into the ground and we love it and hate it in equal measure. There’s a religious nature to all of this. Both the artist and the consumer of said art are in some way supplicant to the art—there’s a reverence at play, a sacrificial nature to it all. We are drawn to art like a moth to light, with a fervour to rival that of any cult devotee and it rewards us for our servitude. To engage with art can…

Tattoos with Higher Purpose AS ABOVE, SO BELOW

25 YEARS OF SkinDeep

Not a lot of magazines can thrash out a twenty five year lifespan and still retain a healthy looking future. That’s a lot of years under the belt any way way you slice it. We toyed with some special features on how tattoos had changed over those years and then scrapped it on grounds of if you’ve been around that long, unlike all other magazines (without exception) you’re already wearing our combined histories somewhere on your skin. As good fortune would have it, the man who originally created, launched and fed Skin Deep in its early years—Odgie Danaan—got in touch, saying he’d love to write a piece for us. How could we refuse? After all, he might be the only person in the world to have every issue and is…

25 YEARS OF SkinDeep

FUCKING HELL KIRST

Her admiration for Pablo Picasso and the Cubist art movement have resulted in the tattooist’s output being a clever explosion of avantgarde imagery and daring colour. Yet, it is in the tattooist’s playful layering of shapes, scripts, and block colours that are most evident of her unique and wonderfully peculiar style. Using the techniques and aesthetics of collage, Simpson mixes and matches complimentary and opposing shapes to build three-dimensional depth in her work, resulting in forms that are always inventive and most importantly fun. Life is an exciting and wholly unique experience, with Simpson echoing this sentiment in her continually daring and original tattoo work: Your name rocks, how did it come about? It’s basically the main exclamation that my friends make when I’m tattooing them; “Fucking hell Kirst!” I was looking…

FUCKING HELL KIRST

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The Great British Tattoo Show

Another year… another sweltering weekend out at Alexandra Palace. This year, we packed in 330 artists from around the world alongside of a pretty constant stream of entertainment on the main stage in the form of our (now traditional) fashion shows from the Chaos Dolls and fire acts… yet one thing always strikes me as odd every single time we put on a show here. This venue is a monster—it has a 10,400 person capacity (10,400!) and to say it’s spacious would be an understatement… throw in the popular and very tasty food fair running around the front of the building, the sun burning high in the sky and a bar just outside of the main hall – sometimes you can wonder where everybody went even when you saw a hundreds…

The Great British Tattoo Show

THE BLOOD DRIVE

If you need proof that tattoos can be harnessed for education, inspiration and blood donation (yes, blood donation), keep reading. Last February, the Finnish Red Cross Blood Service teamed up with Legacy Tattoo in Helsinki to offer free blood type tattoos to donors. Their mission? Educate the public about the link between tattooing and donating, as well as inspire more young people to give blood. Sure, tattoos and blood often go hand-in-hand, but usually not like this. We just had to know more. “The campaign idea came from ad agency TBWA\Helsinki who spotted online discussions about tattoos and blood donation, and whether the two could be combined,” explains Anne Lind, Marketing Manager for the Finnish Red Cross Blood Service. “It seemed that, surprisingly, many people had a misconception that tattoos would…

THE BLOOD DRIVE

Surely, dear reader, this series was built for an artist who goes by the moniker of Mr Hyde. The twisted alter-ego of mild-mannered Dr Jekyll in Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous novella, Mr Hyde is the very definition of rebellion. But for this month’s Rebel Inc-er, 37 year old tattoo artist Valentino Caboni, there’s a context to it all. “It was a nickname originally given to me by a friend who liked my eclectic DJ sets back in the day. He said: ‘it’s like listening to you and the Mr Hyde inside you playing at the same time’. The name stuck, seeming kind of appropriate for a visual artist that wouldn’t conform to the ‘rules’.” And yet while not a rule-taker, Mr Hyde doesn’t necessarily see himself deserving of the label ‘rebel’.…

The SERPENTS of BIENVILLE

“I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.” -Mary Shelley One of my favourite writers is Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Day Prometheus. She challenged the modern thoughts of her day, without alienating her readers from an incredible story. Shelley’s life was constantly intertwined with the feelings of loss, especially regarding the deaths of loved ones, yet she kept a beautiful reflection…

The SERPENTS of BIENVILLE

HOME SWEET HOME

Natalie Petal Gardiner’s nature tattoos remind me of everything I love about the English countryside—filled with diverse wildlife, equally hauntingly dark and quietly beautiful, simultaneously peaceful and alive with movement and character. The use of a muted colour palette and her commitment to not being afraid to experiment with the power of delicate line-work allows her animal and floral tattoos to stand out in the colourful crowd. Natalie has worked in studios all over the UK, Europe and America, spending a big chunk of her time in North Carolina. Having the ability to observe the vast differences (and similarities) in tattoo culture and style across the globe continues to be a focus for Natalie and in her opinion allow her to progress as an artist. But that’s not to say she’s…

HOME SWEET HOME

Scenes from THE INK FACTORY, LYON 12–14 April 2019

It’s easy to understand the big smiles of the organisers Teo Milev and Morgane (of 681 Tattoos) after this second edition of The Ink Factory in Lyon. The event, once again at La Sucrière, seems to become a permanent appointment for the people in Lyon as well as satisfying their thirst for ink. People appreciated the solid organisation: 150 tattooers coming from 22 countries, rock concerts, animations, exhibitions and a great food service all combined to make it a great event. People were able to see the huge creativity actually irrigating the contemporary tattoo scene and the multiple styles available: Japanese, neo-japanese, old-school, neo-oldschool, realism, dotwork, graphic, thaï, neo-polynesian, etc., and done by a great selection of international artists: Paul Tougas (Canada), Tomo, Horimitsu (Japan), Pavel Angel (Russia), Benjamin Laukis…

Scenes from THE INK FACTORY, LYON 12–14 April 2019

TATTOO OF THE MONTH

Well, this is something of an anomaly. This was my stand-out favourite at The Great British Tattoo Show but as it happened, when we added up the numbers, the other judges clipped my decision by a whisker, thus, it found its way to the runner-up slot in the Best Colour Tattoo category. Such is the nature of judging… but to vindicate my soul, I figured I’d pro mote it to my tattoo of the month choice for no other reason than because I can. This page has become something of a home for tattoos that make me smile, are clean, well executed and work as an example to the world of what you can get when you take your time. Brilliant tattoo. I don’t need to say anything else. joe_scop clarencestreettattoo clarencestreettattoo info@clarencestreettattoo.com…

TATTOO OF THE MONTH

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