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Podcast

by jraffan
posted 07/09/2016

Tattoo: Totem, Taboo, Art?

Courtesy Life and Six Months (2013)

Life and Six Months (2013)

Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan interviews Geoff Ostling in a program devoted to tattoo.

Geoff Ostling is a former history teacher, porcelain collector and wearer of a full body tattoo by tattoo artist eX de Medici.

eX de Medici is also a highly collectable fine art practitioner.

Geoff Ostling plans to donate his skin to the National Gallery of Australia.

Jane chats about Geoff’s personal journey and touches on elements of tattoo’s move into the mainstream and its journey from taboo to treasure.

Interview I

Interview II

Interview III


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