Saturday 1st February

• Best Avant-Garde
  Colour or mono, abstract, distorted reality, brushwork, expressionist, line work, geometric and experimental.

• Best Blackwork
  Strong presence of black ink, line work, geometric, symmetry.

• Best Oriental

  Colour or mono, excellent depiction of oriental, including but not limited to traditional koi and Japanese Oni masks.

• Best Traditional
  Colour or mono, defined by the presence of a long-established, traditional tattoo. Includes but is not limited to traditional depictions of the nautical, gypsy, roses etc.

• Best Colour
  A strong presence of colour, water colour, vivid tones with impact.

• Best of Saturday
  Only winners of the Saturday categories will be judged for Best of Saturday.

Sunday 2nd February

• Best Neo-Traditional Colour or mono, bold lines, revival of traditional tattoo style.

• Best Realism
  Colour or mono, portraits, wildlife, hyper realistic detail.

• Best Black & Grey
  May be a wide variety of subject but must exclusively be black and grey.

• Best of Sunday
  Only winners of the Sunday categories will be judged for Best of Sunday.

• Best of Convention
  Self explanatory - your tattoo is the victor of all and may take it's rightful throne in the Tattoo Freeze Hall of Fame.

• Best Booth
  Every Artist Booth will be entered into this competition, you do not need to do anything (its just a bit of fun!)

Art Fusion

Art Fusion is an event created by Paul Booth and Filip Leu that has become a regular part of many international conventions. It consists of 4 or 5 artists working on the same amount of canvases, rotating every 5 minutes, for the duration of the performance.

The final pieces should be a freestyle organic amalgamation of all the Artists styles that have been involved in the performance, as opposed to each Artist forcing the pieces in one direction. Art Fusion is about bringing the Artists together harmoniously as one “Artist” that will only exist and be able to create those pieces at that point in time.

The Artists taking part are:

Mark Weatherhead

Jimbo

Mike Myers

Mike - Project Ink

How Much For a Sleeve?

is a tattoo podcast, hosted by tattoo artist and comedian, Lucie Richardson, and tattoo enthusiast and comedian, Mick Tickner.

Started during the Covid pandemic, the fortnightly episodes bring you conversations with some of the world’s most influential tattoo artists. They’ve been lucky enough to interview artists such as Bob Tyrrell, the late Shanghai Kate, Goodtime Charlie and Lal Hardy.

Covering a wide range of topics, How Much For a Sleeve? brings the perspective of the tattooer and the tattoo client, while combining humour, insight and knowledge of practises. Recently having raised over £3k for charitable causes thanks to the generosity of their listeners.

Truthfully though, it’s 95% pets and rude jokes.

BURN BABY, BURN!
The Fuel Girls are BACK!

These incredible women perform all over the world with their fire, pyro, and aerial shows and they’re bringing that all to the Telford International Centre this February!

Catch their performances both Saturday and Sunday on the main stage right before the hotly anticipated Tattoo Competitions.

Is it just us, or us it getting hot in here? ❤️‍🔥

Joining Tom is Samuel Ashton. Ashton’s music has been described as "Deliciously Soulful" by the BBC's Leo Ulph and his latest EP carries a message to "Breathe Easy" with "Stillness in the face of adversity".

Samuel's soul voice and classic RnB sound have seen him sell out shows across the UK and make waves with over 320k streams on Spotify and radio play on the BBC, throughout Europe, the United States and Australia.

His latest record sees him work with a talented team of musicians including Teskey Brothers' collaborator trombonist Ernest Stuart.

Don’t miss Tom Dibb bringing his good-vibe acoustic music to Tattoo Freeze.

He’ll be setting up camp for the weekend by our main stage in his incredible converted camper and jamming tunes to keep you bopping away. Taking influence from Bob Marley & The Wailers, Counting Crows and Newton Faulkner, it’s the perfect music to get tattooed to! Relax, unwind and come chill out with us at Tattoo Freeze.