Micheal Roberts Exhibition

Up and coming New Plymouth Artist Michal Roberts held his first exhibition at our gallery this week with a huge turn out for this young and talented artist. Come down and check out his work if you get a chance its already almost sold out.

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Ink and Iron 2011

Had a great time in the US and got to really experience one of the biggest American tattoo festivals, here is a handful of the photos we took, I shared a booth with good friends Chris 51 and Sin city smitty, our booth was nestled amongst some of the greats of the industry including the crew from MD(Mike DeVries) Tattoo, Jack Rudy, Bugs, Nicko Hurtado and black anchor tattoo, as well as Tim Hendrix and heaps of others

Countdown to Ink-N-Iron Tattoo Festival California

25 days and counting to California's Ink-N-Iron 2011, the artist list looks exciting for this event. As well as taking part, we also have a guest spot lined up at The Holy Den in Las Vegas.

www.ink-n-iron.com

'Our Place' Charity Auction

Last Thursday we attended a live art charity auction held at local New Plymouth bar 'Our Place'. The night was a great success with some awesome  artwork produced by all the artists involved. We were each given 2 hours to produce an original piece which was then auctioned off at the end of the night with 10% of all proceeds going to the Christchurch earthquake fund. Big thanks to Russel and Mark from 'Our Place' for putting on such a great event.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Our-Place/115611795182585

Guest Artist Zach Hart

We are happy to have Zach Hart from Christchurch's Ink Grave Tattoo. Zach will be doing a guest spot with us for a week from the 24th to the 30th May. Get in touch with us to make a booking as appointments are filling up fast. Call the shop on 06 759 0162

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Clark Ellice Media

Local Taranaki triathlete Clark Ellice is doing his best to make the 2012 Olympics and along the way will be sporting some custom ink. Clark got inked with a NZ design on the ribs. We wish him the best of luck towards his goal of making it to London in 2011.

http://www.clarkellice.com/

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Miss Tui Tattoo

Today Miss Tui contestant Lillian had the Nz beer Tui logo tattooed onto her ribs .  She ended up getting us both in the local newspaper with the chance for her to win 2k, a photoshop and a years supply of alcohol. She needs votes to win which you can do here

http://miss.tui.co.nz/misstui.aspx
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/4807564/That-didn-t-hurt-a-bit-yeah-right

Guest Artist 'Sin City Smitty'

We would like to welcome back to Ink & Anchor Mr Justin Smith or Sin City Smitty as he like to be called. After a short visit and guest spot during the NZ Tattoo and Arts Festival here in November last year, Smitty fell in love with New Plymouth and is now back with us again for 2 weeks.

'Inspired By' Art Exhibition

Local artist Phil Jones has organized a collective exhibition of Taranaki street artists entitled 'Inspired By'. Drop down and check the gallery during the month of March. Join us for drinks and nibbles from 6pm 3rd of March.

Tattoos for Christchurch

Ink & Anchor will be taking part in the charity tattoos for Christchurch Earthquake Appeal on the 7th of Feb from 2pm onwards. We will be doing $60 tattoos for the afternoon and all money raised will be donated to the earthquake appeal. Our thoughts go out to all those affected to by the quake.

More than just Tattoos

We are now proudly stocking jewelry by 'Wild at Heart', 'M.T. Promises' and some custom pieces made in house by Amanda.We are also exclusively stocking Perth (Aus) clothing label 'Pardon my French' and local designer 'Camilla Sassman'.

New Year

Welcome to a new year with Ink & Anchor Tattoo Artspace, we have an exciting year ahead of us with guest artists, a internation convention and our home town hosting America and Ireland in the 2012 Rugby World Cup.
Look forward to seeing you in our store all the best for 011,
Heres a couple sketches over the xmas break to fill in the time...