ARTISTS 2019

My name is Becky Smyth; I work alongside my husband in a small family run studio in Bangor, Co
Down.
I have noticed my style change over the years, building to realism and miniature realism.
I love all styles of tattooing, but forms of realism would be my favourite. This is the style of work
that makes my heart skip a beat. I would love to do more realism pieces and see how far I can go
with it.

Marlo Marquise is an internationally renowned Tattoo Artist, Sideshow, Cabaret, Striptease and Suspension artist.

My name is Francesco Luporosso and I come from Ravenna, a small town in Italy. I worked for 2 years in my private shop. I always used to travel, doing conventions and working in other shops as a guest. In November 2018 I decided to travel more and I started tattooing travelling. Doing guest spots and conventions. Now I currently guest in Rome,Magliana Vice Tattoo and Seville,Lacrimas Negras Tattoo.

I like all the types of traditional tattoo. Tribal, American or Japanese but I  have always loved Japanese art since I was young.

When I discovered Japanese traditional tattoo I decided I would love to do that. I am so influenced by western tattooing because I like the bold and solid approach.

French-American by birth, I grew up in Lyon, where I studied art and graphic design.  After working  in that field for a few years in different countries, I branched out into tattooing in 2012.  After my apprenticeship, I decided to open my own shop in Lyon, so I’d be free to develop my own style:  mainly in black and grey with fine lines, and an illustrative style. I love flowers and animals of every kind. I also do geometrical and ornamental styles.

I live in galway, ireland and tattoo people! I work in Galway Bay Tattoo 🙂

Tribe Leader The Black Hat Tattoo

After more than 20 years of experience, Sergy believes that an accomplished tattoo artist has to be able to master any style and that is what he does.
He loves customs designs and free hand pre work, he is crazy good in realistic, black and gray and neo – traditional style.

My name is Kristijan “Waizor” Dundovic, tattoo artist from Rijeka, Croatia. Tattooing for over 2 years and mostly doing black and greys.

Tattoo artist and proud owner of Killswitch Ink, Cork.
Black & Grey + Colour realism with a hint of watercolour.

Rene is a certified tattoo artist tattooing  since early 2004.   In 2013 Rene met a person who introduced him to an art of an ancient way of doing a hand poked tattoos and he felt for it immediately.  Rene is proudly presenting his work on  the annual Dublin International Tattoo Convention since 2010, where he made a great friends on the International tattoo scene with artists from all over the globe.

My name is Marcel Joaquim and I’m a professional tattoo artist from Göttingen, Germany and owner of Black Hand Tattoo Parlor in Sieboldshausen, Germany.
I’m 31 years old and I’m doing tattoos professionally since September 2017.
But It all started on April, the 1st, 2014. On this day I got a tattoo from a good friend who was also
the best tattoo artist in our region at that time.
For the first time I got tattooed on an area where I had a pretty good look on the whole process.
While I was watching how he tattooed, I was getting more and more fascinated every minute, and I couldn’t stop watching.
I can remember that I thought, I think I could do that too!  And I was right.
About nine months later I bought my first professional tattoo equipment and did my first tattoo on
myself. Pretty soon I already had a lot of requests and I was tattooing many of my friends in that time.
For the next two years I was only doing tattoos as a hobby, as I was studying economics in university, had a job and was traveling a lot.

In 2017, I finally realised that tattooing is all what I want to do. I just knew that I found my passion and to achieve my goals the only opportunity was to get rid of all the rest. So I quit the jobs, left the university and started focusing exclusively on tattooing. I decided to become self-employed and with the help of my girlfriend Nicole we rebuilt one room in our flat into a small but very nice tattoo studio. Pretty soon, the quality of my works increased with every tattoo and soon after I wasn’t able to handle the requests anymore. And we just couldn’t do it anymore in our home.
It wasn’t just friends anymore, and some people came a long way just to get a tattoo from me. Right at that time, two very good friends of mine bought a big property in the village were I live. They offered me a really beautiful and big room where I could open my first own atelier-like shop in October 2018 – the Black Hand Tattoo Parlor.
One of my best friends started with his own business in the same property and so we established the “New Plaze out of Town”. A collaboration of four businesses all based in the same location.
We have just started and are currently developing every day. But the future will hold great things.
Meanwhile my girlfriend Nicole took over all management tasks, what led to a much more professional process and gives me the time to focus exclusively on doing what I love most –
creating awesome tattoos.
I would describe my style as black and grey realism with a high grade of details.
I’m often described as a very gentle tattooist, and my works usually heal very fast.
This year is the first time that I’m attending a tattoo convention. My first will be the International
Berlin Tattoo Convention in August and I can’t wait to be part of the Dublin International Tattoo Convention in November.
Cheers,
Marcel.

My name is victor herrero, I am a Spanish tattooer living in the netherlands for 10 years. My favourite styles are, neojapanese , cartoon newschool and blackwork

Born in Iasi, Romania and raised in Italy in the fantastic Turin!

Higher studies at the art school “R. Cottini ”and after a few years traveling around the world, in 2013 the passion I always had for tattoos became my life’s work.

If this was possible I certainly owe it to my teacher Giovanni Borello, who, in his “workshop”, allowed everything to begin.

I have acquired other experiences working around the world participating in conventions and events related to tattooing.

I also learned a lot by joining Denis Elice, an artist that I respect a lot more than a dear friend, having had the chance to watch him at work more than once!

Aidan Cunningham Tattoo Artist From Ireland

Specializing in Neo Traditional Tattooing.