Skin Deep – September 2019

92 • SKIN DEEP MAGAZINE

IMAGES: Kamila Burzymowska

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GDANSK

TAT TO O

KONWENT

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t could get embarrassing that we’ve given so much coverage to the shows in Poland over recent issues, but the

work is so damn good out there right now that it would be criminal not to.

There seems to be a real pride at working these shows and whereas once upon a time, you might have thought

the country to be full of tattooers whose talents lay solely in black and grey work of nuns with bleeding eyes,

the truth is so far away from that stereotype, it’s scary.

I think the answer lies—as ever—in the amount of travel artists are doing these last few years. Nothing breeds

creativity quite like being exposed to as many different styles and influences as possible. I suspect that a lot of this

happens subconsciously but regardless... the great work is there for all to see and this show in Gdansk is a fine exam-

ple of people doing everything right across an excellent couple of days.