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In what is thought to be a world first, London artist Michele Servadio has turned the agony of going under the needle into music, with the release of his first record, Body of Reverbs (BOR): New Rituals For Contemporary Bodies. The limited-edition vinyl, to be released on September 7 in Hackney Wick, east London, features…

For the Shield of Achilles tattoo, Kit contacted me in 2017 to see if his idea would be possible, and we began work the beginning of this year. The idea was taken from the description of the Shield of Achilles in The Iliad. It’s an intricately decorated round shield depicting a city at war, a…

If you like to gamble and also deface your flesh, Adam Vu has you covered. The Berlin-based artist has found a way of breaking the monotony of marking his clients with the same imagery, while also adding an element of exhilaration and uncertainty, by putting the entire process at the mercy of spinning wheels. ‘Threesomes’…

Eyelid tattoos are nothing new, but they’re no longer worn by only the most hardcore collector of ink. While not yet mainstream, eyelid tattoos are surging in popularity with the shutters being a highly visible – yet, conversely invisible – place for those bold enough to have their peepers pricked to make, not so much…

Kim Rense is from a family of graphic designers and was one for three years before a tattoo shop surprised the Dutchman with the offer of an apprenticeship. The Hague-based artist, better-known as Papanatos, recalled to Parloir how while working as a graphic designer and attending art school in the evenings he regularly got tattooed,…

Steven Donohue is an art school drop-out who you’ll probably Learn To Hate for one reason or another – most probably because that’s what he calls himself on the tattoo mega-mall that is Instagram. The Yorkshireman recently caught Parloir’s attention with a chest-piece so flagrantly fantastic it got shared by Snake Pit, the anal-cavity of…