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Split-Sheet: Dan Crowe & Jack Watts
Simultaneously honouring traditions and breathing new life into tired ideas, artists Dan Crowe and Jack Watts have been humbly producing clean and timeless work from the heart of London’s Sang Bleu, and in doing so, have joined a lineage of tattooists with an incredible passion for history, but a sharp vision for tomorrow. As part of our new on-going joint-interview series ‘Split-Sheet’, we paired them up to demystify their beginnings in tattooing, how they both came to work together and what they feel they owe to the tattooists of yesterday.
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Shane Tan
Shane Tan has accumulated a large following of seriously dedicated patrons. With these devoted advocates collecting back pieces, bodysuits and sleeves, it's hard to miss the hustle coming from this tattooer. Hailing from Singapore and tattooing since the millennium, Shane Tan really puts in the work. His vast understanding of composition, flow and use of colour speak volumes. The minimal colour palette against such contrasted backgrounds is unmistakable. Shane Tan is moving to the U.K. soon so if you're looking for the perfect large-scale Japanese tattoo then maybe you should take a read and let your eyes soak in his portfolio.
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Clare Frances
Embodying DIY culture and a heavy sense of Lynchian-like fantasy, London-based tattooist Clare Frances boldly experiments with typography and imagery embedded with romance and rebellion. Although every-moving, her rough designs and hyper-clean work continues to explore a world of darkness and digital-despair unseen to many. Here, Clare Frances speaks to her dream-like inclinations, the ways in-which tattoos exist between the external and the internal and how marking yourself is a way of creating your own reality.
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