My name's Sureno, I'm from London. I have a studio in West London, it's called Cavalleros Tattoos.
We're at the Brighton Tattoo Convention after a COVID lockdown.
It's been a long time. There's been a lot to miss.
We've missed the people, we've missed other tattoo artists
and generally working in a convention, getting out and meeting people.
It's a great convention - I think, personally, best in the UK
and it's full of great people, very friendly, loads of great artists - the best in the country and abroad internationally.
Coming out the COVID lockdown, I decided I want to, sort of, interact with the customers more
rather than having big pieces, I thought I'd do small pieces, walk ups, a lot of walk ups, get to meet people, interact
and yeah it's been great, really busy, really friendly. Yeah, super cool.
Yeah it's a big relief to start edging towards normality again.
Hopefully the conventions continue to keep on rolling
less and less cancellations and lockdowns and, you know, just general downers from the lockdowns, what they've caused
and it's, yeah, onwards and upwards.
Hopefully we're going to see you guys in the next one!
Howzit guys, my name is Dean Gunther. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa
and currently based in Greater Manchester in Ashton-under-Lyne.
So we're currently at the Brighton Tattoo Convention
and what I miss most about the convention is mingling with other artists, getting to see other artists working, learning, making new friends.
Why I love Brighton Tattoo Convention? It is, next to London, probably the biggest tattoo convention
and it features some of the best artists around the world, so it's really an honour to be part of this convention and meeting everyone.
Right, so at this convention I've been doing an ongoing leg sleeve on my friend Ed and it's an underwater leg sleeve.
For this piece at the convention we chose to do a big jellyfish on his leg with a diver underneath
and that that correlates with the ongoing tattoo that he's got on his leg.
It was great fun and met a lot of great people and we're looking forward to next year.
Can't wait to meet you all and do some amazing pieces.
Thank you for watching, cheers!
Hi, I'm Paul Talbot, I'm from Birmingham, England, and I'm here at the Brighton Tattoo Convention with the guys at Killer!
The biggest thing I've missed about conventions is just this.
It's hanging about with my peers, meeting people that I don't get to see anywhere but conventions.
It's lovely to catch up with everybody, what they've been up to, what we've been up to and just get back to normal, you know?
Meeting our clients, meeting new clients, old clients, hanging about with our mates, it's great, you know.
That's the best thing, it was always the best thing about conventions, it's the thing I've always missed.
Brighton particularly is because really early in my career, Woody who runs the Brighton convention was one of the first people to go
'do you want to come to my convention?' And really showed some faith and love for the style that I was doing
which was a little bit weird sort of 15 years ago or something.
And so I love coming here because, you know, anybody that loves your work, you want to go there.
And I love the vibe of the convention and I love that there's barbers here now
and there's motorbikes on display and there's all kinds of great shit you can see
so when I'm not working, I can go walk around and look at cool stuff.
There's cool entertainment in the evenings, a little bit too much rockabilly for my taste but there you go.
Actually for me pieces-wise, I haven't actually worked this weekend because coming back from COVID, I wasn't sure if my anxiety would stand it.
Obviously with being in the building 10 minutes I just wanted to tattoo again
but the nice thing that I've done is my kids work in my shop and so they're working Brighton for the first time.
So my daughter's working here for the first time, my son's working here for the second time
so I get to walk past my booth and look at the next generation of Modern Electric tattooers
so even though that means I'm the old generation of Modern Electric tattooers, I'll have to take the hit
but it's nice to watch the kids come through and it's been nice, even though I'm not working but I'll be working next year, for sure.
So that's it guys, we'll see you at the next one!