Continuing the tattoo art series these snaps where taken two weeks ago as a continuing record of the studio.
Andy the marine
Arts and Culture
From Shakespeare to The Smiths, Wittgenstein to Warhol
The projects collective can be found in Plymouth Barbican at the end of South Side Street near the Mayflower steps.
The place where us British went to settle in America. USA.(God bless America)
It�¢??s a gallery that covers street culture and lifestyle with graffiti art and tattoos, it is also where you can learn to play band music. The band based there is simple design the band are based there www.simpledesigyn06 .
The graffiti artists resident are, atthe moment.
Aziz.
Phil H.
Tammie H
The
Tattoo artists are Andy
Pash
Chunk
Apprentices Alex and Matthew as seen here.
It a place to find great new pop art and body art a real collective of street art and music.
In reply to Chris Summerfield:
Andy is now in the war ravaged areas of Afghanistan. The last time we spoke three weeks, ago he told me that he could not wait to get out there as that is what he had trained for.
He said that he will have a lot more tattoos done with Andy and the team when he gets back in three months; in the meantime I have got more tattoos of Andy that I will be collecting soon.
I try to be non bias but do get consernd when people are so motivated to go and fight in war zones I guess that its an adrenaline fix that they get used to being at the edge of there own mortality and that of others.
People in politics have a lot to answer for.?
Chunk, one of the tattoo artists creating a design in his spare time
In reply to Chris Summerfield:
Last week end I met up with Andy and did a photo shoot of his latest tattoos.
Andy had just got back from fighting in Afghanistan, some of his friend where lost during this time. It reminded me how fragile life and time can be, and how decisions that are made in white hall sometimes blindly can effect generations of other peoples lives.
I will post a new studio picture of him here soon hopefully, including a new mostache
Some of the other artists represented at the studio
In reply to Chris Summerfield:
This was the last sitting by Andy, Andy the tattooist artists used traditional hand tattooing to create the art work for tattoos before he went of to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban