Inking Board is the name of the series of exhibitions where the skateboard goes under the dermograph. Inking the wood of the skateboard as you would do it on the skin’ is the only instruction given to the tattoo artists.
The beginning: Inking Board 001
At the beginning of January 2019, 17 tattoo artists were each given the mission to create a work from 2 skateboards. The exhibition highlighted all the creativity and graphic richness of the tattoo world. From irezumi, to traditional, to naive and engraving, the styles and renderings were as varied as they were fascinating. The tattoo artists had 4 months to create their works. In fact, most of them spent more than 30 hours perfecting their boards.
Especially since the wood support was a challenge for some. Indeed, wood absorbs a lot of paint. Everyone had to find the right solution to get a clean look.
To better immerse everyone in the world of each artist, Paul Daubié photographed the tattoo artists and their salons. Taken on film, he took care of the printing himself.
Inking Board 001 took place at Sitio by Superposition, the Street Art gallery in the 1st district of Lyon. On the program, the following artist-tattooers participated in this first edition: Strange Dust, Carlos Olmo, Grom, Carlito, Gaguthhe, Noka, Kid Nowe, Quentin Aldhui, Krap/Crap, Side, Marc Bonz, Laurent Claveau, Pandido, Mathias Bugo and Carlito, Gladys to Meet You, Pas de Veine.
The Resonance: Inking Board 001
In July 2019, a resonance of this exhibition took place in the city of Wonders: Bordeaux. Indeed, the eco-neighborhood Darwin hosted the event for 1 month in one of these large refurbished hangars. For Inking Board 002, in addition to the artists already presented, 3 new ones were added. We invited Mamie Bousille, Subson’Ink and Romain Perdrizet to create a work of art each.
What’s next?
This series of exhibitions is the initiation of Romain Hurdequint, the creator of The Daily Board, Paul Daubié and Chloé Chandioux. It’s hard to say more for the moment, but the series will continue and may grow!
The latest recruit of the Blossom Tattoo Collective, Romain Perdrizet created a diptych for the resonance of the exhibition INKING BOARD, which took place in Darwin, Bordeaux. Fascinated by the traditional style, he wanted to pay tribute to the tattoo…
Tattoo artist Jody Boucard aka Mamie Bousille took up the challenge of creating an artwork from two skateboards for the INKING BOARD exhibition series. Her diptych, entitled Malachite Studies, was not easy to make. Indeed, this meticulous work took her…
Cabinetmaker by training, Subson’Ink, of Black Horns Tattoo in Lyon, has agreed to create a work for the exhibition series INKING BOARD. The tattooist’s brief was to create a diptych of skateboards in his graphic style. He did it brilliantly…
The founder of Biribi, Kid Nowe has agreed to create this diptych of boards for INKING BOARD. Passionate about cartoons and traditional tattooing, he has on one side painted a Jiang Shi, Chinese vampire found in old cartoons. On the…
The former Artistic Director of Antiz Skateboard, Laurent Claveau is now an illustrator/tattoo artist on his own. As part of the exhibition INKING BOARD, he created an artwork with two skateboards that he has covered with leather to be able…
The tattoo artist Pierre Berruyer aka Hozho wanted to pay homage to the emblematic logos of the 80s, mixing them with his passion for Japanese prints and irezumi. So, on one side, he mixed Vernon Courland Johnson’s ripper with a…
I was interviewed by @clemribe and @duriflea, the two talented videographers from the Chalk Custom Board Project. They asked me to introduce myself and tell them what I was doing at the European Custom Board Collective Show. An interview in…
Self-taught tattoo artist, Marc Bonz has inked 2 skateboards on each side as part of the INKING BOARD exhibition. Inspired by the traditional American tattoo, he painted on one side, the classic ‘Battle Royal’, fight between the eagle and the…
From 5 to 26 June 2019, the exhibition INKING BOARD 002 took place at the eco-district Darwin, in Bordeaux. It was part of the Skatorium event, the month of skateboarding in Bordeaux. On this occasion, we presented 10 diptychs from…
Formed at school to designer product, Quentin Aldhui has created his own tattoo parlor Hello Darkness in Lyon almost 3 years ago. For the exhibition INKING BOARD, he has done a beautiful work! Entitled ‘Send Nudes’, the diptych of skate…
