Skin & Bone is a combination gallery and tattoo studio. The gallery will exhibit art and ethnographic handicrafts related to tattooing, while the studio will have Colin Dale tattooing alongside various guest artists throughout the year. Through his years of travelling and tattooing around the world Colin has had the pleasure to meet and work alongside a wide range of tattoo artists and experts working in ethnographic and other specialized styles. Amongst these friends, we have hand-tattooists from Borneo, Polynesia and Japan as well as some of the world's leading artists in Blackwork and Dotwork coming to visit. Check the homepage http://www.skinandbone.dk/ to see some of the work



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Friday, 17 April 2015

Tätowier Magazine April 2015: Haida Tattoo Revival


My colleague Lars Martinen just returned from Germany were he ran across the latest issue of Tätowier Magazine. In it was an article on Haida tattooing written by my good friend Claire Aremyz about the history and more modern revival of the style we've been seeing grow year by year within tattooing. I'm very proud to be able to promote in a small way this style from my homeland within Europe.
I just wanted to Thank Dirk Boris, editor of Tätowier Magazine for always showing an interest and promoting the cultural history of tattooing. Claire Artemyz who put together a beautiful article on the Haida traditions as well as using examples of my own work as inspiration. and Lars Krutak for supplying the archieval photos which put this style into a historical context. 

Enjoy! 









Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Bizarre Magazine: Mag Book, The World's Most Incredible Tattoos (Volume 5)


Well, just got back from the Brighton Convention which was a real pleasure to work at and visit again. Picked up the new issue of Bizarre Magazine's "World's Most Incredible Tattoos" at the aeroport newsstand and was pleased to find my work in the pages. This is the 5th Volume of a "Mag Book" that Bizarre has been publishing for the last several years (I think it is an annual or bi-annual publication) of what is happening on the cutting edge of todays tattoo scene. My work was previously shown in Bizarre's "Inked Icon" column by Denise Stanborough several years back. This time I got a full article as one of their "Tattoo Legends"... alongside such names as Alex Binnie, Bugs, Matt Black, Noon, Deryn Twelve, Andy Engel, Phil Kyle and Mo Coppoletta :-)
I also wanted to thank David "Alex" Alexander for bringing the issue to my attention and Claire Artemyz for use of her closeup photos of my tattooing using hawthorn and Inuit sewing techniques.

Enjoy!    







Friday, 27 December 2013

“Secret whispers” A photo exhibition by Claire Artemyz at Skin&Bone



“Secret whispers”

A photo exhibition by Claire Artemyz

January 1, 14:00-20:00

www.artemyz.com


Jehanne’s lives
This is the story of a multiple personality case.

Jehanne was born during Ice Age, some 30 000 years ago. Or maybe this is what she believes.
At that time, she lived in a cave and wore fur to protect herself from the cold.
On her chest she had fixed a fox skull, to help communicate with the spirits.
She was a shaman.
Jehanne has lived several lives. She has developed a sustained fascination for skulls and she is still in connection with the unknown world.
Is it the real Jehanne, or one of her descendants, some thousand generations later?

Is this a fiction or a real story just documented by images?
Because one never knows with photography.

Please, make sure you form you own personal opinion on that delicate matter.
In any case:
Welcome to Jehanne’s very personal universe!

My sources of inspiration are based on some major myths from various cultures and the mise en scene often includes artefacts from scientific collections and curiosity cabinets. It is like a work of quotations.

“Secret whispers” is an extract from Jehanne’s lives. A story about being human.



“Le veau d’or est toujours debout”
The song of the Golden Calf, Faust (Opera, Charles Gounod)
Today, some people consider Globalization as equivalent to the adoration of the Golden Calf, as described in the Bible.
The feminine hand above the decapitated head seems to pronounce the sentence.
Would it be a better world if women were in charge of the great groups?

“The veil”
Reflection on aletheia.

 
“Love me tender”
Before the era of gender studies, it was commonly admitted that sexes would fight each other. French writer Boris Vian gives his view on the matter, in the well-known song “Fais-moi mal Johnny”.

Il s'est levé à mon approche
Debout, il était bien plus p'tit
Je me suis dit c'est dans la poche
Ce mignon-là, c'est pour mon lit
Il m'arrivait jusqu'à l'épaule
Mais il était râblé comme tout
Il m'a suivie jusqu'à ma piaule
Et j'ai crié vas-y mon loup

Fais-moi mal, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny
Envole-moi au ciel... zoum!
Fais-moi mal, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny
Moi j'aim' l'amour qui fait boum!

Il n'avait plus que ses chaussettes
Des bell' jaunes avec des raies bleues
Il m'a regardé d'un œil bête
Il comprenait rien, l'malheureux
Et il m'a dit l'air désolé
Je n'ferais pas d'mal à une mouche
Il m'énervait! Je l'ai giflé
Et j'ai grincé d'un air farouche

Fais-moi mal, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny
Je n'suis pas une mouche... zoum!
Fais-moi mal, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny
Moi j'aim' l'amour qui fait boum!

Voyant qu'il ne s'excitait guère
Je l'ai insulté sauvagement
J'y ai donné tous les noms d'la terre
Et encor' d'aut's bien moins courants
Ça l'a réveillé aussi sec
Et il m'a dit arrête ton charre
Tu m'prends vraiment pour un pauve mec
J'vais t'en r'filer, d'la série noire

Tu m'fais mal, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny
Pas avec des pieds... zing!
Tu m'fais mal, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny
J'aim' pas l'amour qui fait bing!

Il a remis sa p'tite chemise
Son p'tit complet, ses p'tits souliers
Il est descendu l'escalier
En m'laissant une épaule démise
Pour des voyous de cette espèce
C'est bien la peine de faire des frais
Maintenant, j'ai des bleus plein les fesses
Et plus jamais je ne dirai

Fais-moi mal, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny
Envole-moi au ciel... zoum!
Fais-moi mal, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny
Moi j'aim' l'amour qui fait boum!

Monday, 3 June 2013

Tätowier Magazine: Juni 06/2013

My good friend Claire Artemyz wrote an article last year which was published in Tatouage Magazine in France showing my work recreating prehistoric tattoos as well as the use of related art as tattoo designs. Now the article has now been published in German as well, in Tätowier Magazine. So to my Germanic friends... "Enjoy" And to my Francophone friends... you can still check out the original by clicking on "Presse" 
I've been wanting to do something like this for years... showing the original sources, the drawings and the final tattoo. Some of these designs are direct recreations of the symbols while others are my interpretation of the historical finds. 
Claire has previously written articles on my work with Haida tattooing, Ötzi the Iceman and accupuncture tattoos, as well as some of the prehistoric tattooing techniques I use.
An added plus is that the magazine also has articles on Marc "Little Swastika's" new work and Uncle Allen's move to Berlin

 Nano Gigantum Humeris Insidentes





















Saturday, 2 February 2013

Tatouage 90 Janvier-Février 2013

   My good friend Claire Artemyz just had an article published in Tatouage Magazine in France showing my work recreating prehistoric tattoos as well as the use of related art as tattoo designs. I've been wanting to do something like this for years... showing the original sources, the drawings and the final tattoo. Some of these designs are direct recreations of the symbols while others are my interpretation of the historical finds. 
Claire has previously written articles on my work with Haida tattooing, Ötzi the Iceman and accupuncture tattoos, as well as some of the prehistoric tattooing techniques I use.

 Nano Gigantum Humeris Insidentes

 
 








 












Sunday, 5 August 2012

Claire Artemyz Exhibition at Skin&Bone

In conjunction with Jægersborggade's Block Party
Skin&Bone will be holding a special exhibition of some of the newest work from
French Photographer Claire Artemyz
Saturday the 11th of August
12:00-22:00

What Mummies tell us

 At the origin of my photographs there is only one question: what is our identity?

"Whether it is approached from the viewpoint of life sciences or cultural productions, what human singularity gives our conscience the ability to apprehend the notion of metaphysics and the abstract?"

Claire Artemyz focuses on the photographic object in its most intimate core. From Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man’s skulls, to damaged skin from body modification, unveil many mysterious landscapes, shown here, as we have never seen. Landscapes that ask us the same abstract questions under the photographer’s lens: What is thought? What trace does it leave that can be recalled by images?

This research has guided Claire Artemyz, from subject to subject, series to series, to present an unusual course and a radical      approach, avoiding easy provocations despite strong and powerful themes.

Analog photography, based on close-up and specific use of light. Images can reach abstraction and thus meet our own imaginary world.



Claire ARTEMYZ
Artistic photography