ARCHIVE: INK: Art or Artifice?

ISSUE 8 — INTERVIEWS: Six tattoo artists across six cities reflect on their work as an artistic practice

Illustration by Audrey App

Like many traditional artists, tattoo artists begin their process with a pen and paper, or some modern version of that. Despite the artistic abilities and talent of these artists, they still struggle to be recognized in the same stature as more conventional visual artists. In this series, I present a selection of female tattoo …