What happens when the baby of a career criminal is adopted into the household of a pious and nurturing family? This is the story of John Richard Birkby, and nature finding nurture.
The 4th wall is a theatre term for the invisible wall between performers and the audience. When performers speak directly to the audience it’s considered breaking the 4th wall. As the sociologist Erving Goffman’s dramaturgy suggests, we are constantly performing our identities. The interviews on this page were an attempt to enquire beyond the performativity of self.
What happens when the baby of a career criminal is adopted into the household of a pious and nurturing family? This is the story of John Richard Birkby, and nature finding nurture.
Melbourne-based artist Leili’s first solo show, Chahar Bagh, is as much an exercise in solidifying identity as it is uncovering the elusive rewards of being neither here nor there.
This article takes a critical look at the problematic elements permeating Musafar's legacy of prescribing "primitiveness" for Western malaise.
Parma Ham is a London based artist challenging normative notions of gender and the body.
(First published in Archer Magazine 12/10/19) Alison Bennett is a neuroqueer artist, activist, and academic that explores the complex world of autistic embodiment and neuroqueer skin.
(Abridged version published in The Conversation 03/07/2019) The Immigration Museum’s new exhibit, Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks, explores the contemporary form of Polynesia’s Tatau alongside the tattoo tradition of Japanese irezumi.
(Published in VICE 12/06/2019) Feris Tergo sessions are designed to explore the murky and macabre space between what unites tattoo, body modification and BDSM.
(Published in VICE 14/11/2018) Photojournalist Luke Daniels used his friendship with one high-ranking insider to photograph members of The Number
London-based tattooist Eli and Polish-born tattooist Adam Curly share their respective heavy blackwork journeys.
(abridged version published in VICE, 19/03/18) JILF, a self-described nihilist and practising dominatrix, orchestrates painful and subversive acts with her partners with the aim of eliciting trauma and embracing disgust.
(Published in DAZED & CONFUSED, 13/12/17) I speak to the L.A artist, Roxx, about MoMA's recent exhibition, Items: Is Fashion Modern?
I spoke to participants of Brutal Black about why they chose to engage with amplified tattoo pain.
Read extracts from my articles featured in FOREVER MORE
(First published in VICE 06/07/17) Respectively raised in the suburbs of the Gold Coast and Perth, the Huxley’s longed for something with more danger and glamour.
(First published in INKED, issue 45) When forensic inquiry is applied to tattoos, it can assist in the identification or capture of criminals or missing persons.
(Published in Skin Deep UK) Love Shakthi Om, to be launched in the first week of May, will produce limited works of art to be sold with profits donated to charity.