More on the tattoo exhibition at the National Maritime Museum
I was very surprised when I arrived at the Bristol Tattoo convention last month to see a stall dedicated to the British Tattoo Art Revealed exhibition at National Maritime Museum in Falmouth. https://nmmc.co.uk/whats-on/event/tattoo-british-tattoo-art-revealedhttps://nmmc.co.uk/whats-on/event/tattoo-british-tattoo-art-revealed/ I visited there on my holiday in April and was delighted a couple of months later to have the chance to meet one of the tattoo exhibition's curators, Derryth Ridge. She was one was one of those who set everything up and given that she has lots of tattoos it's not hard to see what motivated her. Stuart Slade and Dr Matt Lodder (from Essex University) were the two principal people behind it all. Stuart worked on the tattoo exhibition in Greenwich about fifteen years ago and felt there was more that could be done with it. At the same time the museum in Falmouth was looking to expand its audience to the young, a wider audience and to some older pe