Saturday 14th May 2016
Following "Punk London" this was the next event and luckily it was right next to the Barbican with me being there. Similar to the "Rocharchive's A Chunk of Punk" it was a small, free exhibition with a few display cases.
Having studied history at university it was interesting to find out that tattooing had been around for centuries (spanning back to the Romans and probably even before that). Sutherland Macdonald was the first professional tattooist in the capital in the 1880's. He claimed that he started the term 'tattooist' as 'tattoer' made him think of 'plumber.'
The exhibition focused on four main artists within London - Lal Hardy, Alex Binnie, Claudia de Sabe and Mo Coppoletta. Some of their personal items were on show - such as tattoo guns, religious memorabilia, paints, etc. Also, they had all created an original piece for the exhibition itself which showed the variety in styles, something I found fascinating. Alongside these were photographs and oral histories from the artists.
Art pieces ranged from religious icons to cockney rhyming slang - something I found fun to look at to see how many terms I knew. I would say that Claudia de Sabe's self portrait was my favourite piece.
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