As she informs her followers that she can stay and continue her tattoo career in the UK with the visa that she applied for, but not as a tattoo artist. She did get her global talent visa from the arts council as an illustrator artist.
I have not known that there is a Crafts Council UK before until I spoke to a classmate about my project and she told me about it. I did research on crafts council UK and it appears to me that tattooing is in both craft and art.
This made me question why, and the arts council said that tattoo artist is in a grey area then why not make it clear? Is there any organisation that can decide to support tattoo artists? And why does arts council UK seems more powerful than crafts council? Do people not value the craftwork enough? Why can it not be Arts and Crafts council UK?
“Tattoos date back many thousands of years. In fact, we have firm evidence that tattooing is an ancient art form, after discoveries of tattoos on mummified skin were found. The oldest evidence of human tattoos is believed to be from between 3370 BC and 3100 BC”
This quote has shown that the tattoo industry is not new, it has been there for a very long time. And again why is it not clear yet? Is it too cool, too underground to be clear?
She did mention that she would love to make some changes to this issue and upgrade the tattoo industry. As she has 15.6k followers on her Instagram account.
I am still thinking of how will she change that? Could be by raising awareness and educating, making artists aware about this issue and that would be something that I and her and any artist can change and drive the industry forward.