Nora Hildebrandt

Nora Hildebrandt

Tattooed Women Tattoo History Nora Hildebrandt was the first tattooed woman circus attraction. She was first exhibited in 1882, eighteen years after the international success of Captain Contentus. Like him, her official biography consisted of a tale of being forcibly...
Coven

Coven

My Residency with Gang of Witches at the Coven Gang of Witches is not only an artist collective, which is growing in numbers, we are also branching out into other territories. A residency has been created in Ibiza; an island known for among other things, yoga...
Gang of Witches 2019 Debrief

Gang of Witches 2019 Debrief

  The title of our event this year was “Patriarchy is burning”. In addition the theme for Gang of Witches 2019 is Mars, the red planet, the sister planet to Earth. Furthermore, Mars is also the god of war. To that effect, we are deadly serious about...
Tattoo Story of the Year

Tattoo Story of the Year

Destiny Do you ever feel that certain people were put in your life at the right moment? It happened to me recently, Naila contacted me and told me of a tattoo project she wanted to do with one of her friends. They wanted kidneys! Undoubtedly, not the request that you...
Dandy

Dandy

Every autumn I’m excited pulling out my vests, sweaters, wool pants, wool skirts and suits. Why is that? It’s because I associate these items with dressing well. Dressing well means feeling good about myself, playing a part, creating a persona. For...
Portraits of my Gang

Portraits of my Gang

Here’s the watercolor portraits I did of some of the members of Gang of Witches, artist collective: Paola- is the Queen of the GOW universe. Sophie- is a writer, and singer, our version of Euterpe (the muse of music). Sunny- is the official tattoo artist of Gang...