Where can I get tattooed by someone who specialises in maori tattooing in Sydney?

Question

Hi Im wanting to get some maori designed tattooing done and Im after a tattooist (maori) in Sydney can anyone help???

Answer 1

You need to track down Tuta Tuheke in Waterloo, Sydney.

There is a couple articles about him doing Maori tattoos there

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?M...

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?...

............Sydney-based artist Tuta Tuheke, 39, who lives in Waterloo, says Maori tattoo art, once a dying art form, is experiencing a renaissance.

There are currently about five Maori tattoo artists in every state, he says.

They mainly work on people who are predominantly Maori and can't go home and get a tattoo.

With a background in carving and graphic design, Tuheke, a practitioner from New Zealand's King Country in the North Island, says when he began as a tattoo artist several years ago, there would be four clients a week.

Now there are three a day.