(VICE online, 27/09/16) Discover a rich history of colonial stick & poke tattoos and wild convict stories with Simon Barnard, author of Convict Tattoos: Marked Men and Women of Australia.
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(VICE online, 27/09/16) Discover a rich history of colonial stick & poke tattoos and wild convict stories with Simon Barnard, author of Convict Tattoos: Marked Men and Women of Australia.
(Things & Ink, issue 7. Republished in INKED, issue 28) “It’s another world in prison, there’s dos and don’ts out here, and then there’s dos and don’ts in there. I used to just go with the flow, and do tattoos.”
(Things & Ink, issue 3) "I said to them all, ‘look, this isn’t the right ink, I don’t want you all getting infected from it,’ but they were all like UGHRAAAAA, TATTOO US TATTOO US WE DON’T CARE. I had like seven people lined up."