Botany and Tattoos: a Story of Design and Discovery |Talk at RHS Lindley Library

Join art historian Dr Matt Lodder for a botanical perspective on tattoo design, tools and inks. Discover plants as material and inspiration for tattoo designs from prehistory to the present.

The talk will include a history of plants as material, with the use of thorns and cactus spines as early tattooing tools and plant-based pigments as inks.

Plus, discover the intellectual and personal connections between Georgian botanists like Joseph Banks and the encounters with tattooing in the Pacific.

Dr Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the University of Essex.

Doors open at 6.00pm, with the talk beginning at 6.15pm.

Tickets are required for the event, with the £5 ticket cost supporting the RHS Lindley Library. Book via Eventbrite.