An IT consultant for various investment banks, Fawkes is at the convention to be inked by Nikole Lowe, 47, who owns Good Times Tattoo in Shoreditch, East London. In many places, tattoos are no longer the preserve of rebels on society’s fringes. Research in 2010 by the Pew Research Centre found that 38% of US millennials had a tattoo (though 70% said their tattoos were not usually visible). When Berlin-based market research company Dalia Research surveyed 9,000 people in 18 countries in 2018, they found that 46% of US respondents had a tattoo, rising to 47% in Sweden and 48% in Italy.
I’ll have to think of something else!”Īnd while Bone might be underestimating his power to shock – it’s not every day you see a senior citizen with extensive body art – tattooing is becoming widespread in some countries. “I used to be different, outrageous, but now I’m normal. “Tattooing’s turned into a fashion accessory, which I’m all against, because tattooing is not a fashion accessory, it’s a way of life,” he says. And he isn’t impressed with the direction things seem to be going.
Once the UK’s most tattooed man, he is still in charge of his eponymous studio in London at 74 years of age. Even at the London Tattoo Convention, which claims to be the biggest of its kind in Europe, Bone stands out. “In the last few years, tattooing’s gone absolutely berserk.” That’s George Bone’s take on what he sees as the mainstream take-over of tattoos.
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