Your story:
Authentink Studio is the brainchild of Canadian-born Horisumi Kian Forreal, who has been tattooing all over the world for 23 years, but has made Sydney his home. Horisumi specialises in large-scale traditional Japanese tattoos; sleeves, back pieces and full body suits. At the expo this year, there will be nine artists working under the Authentink banner, all specialising in their own style.
Your speciality:
Among Authentink’s other artists, Lauren Fox specialises in traditional tattoos, loves to mix styles from East and West, and anything with a pop culture reference. Seth Arcane is our dotwork and geometric master, specialising in all ethnographic and tribal designs where precise linework is required. Ning Chula and Enku Shoji are our two other Japanese specialists. Both love to do traditional and neo-Japanese work. Lance St Vincent is our newest addition to the team – with a solid street shop background, he can turn his hand at almost any style, however he has an especially unique style of elaborate lettering that is like no other.
At the expo:
In addition to our permanent crew, we will have three additional guest artists with us who specialise in neo-traditional, script, photorealism, black and grey and traditional Japanese: Jess Martucci, Jonas Bødker and Kevin Marr.
