Archive Note
Heather Bailey is an American tattoo artist who works in a traditional idiom applied to non-traditional subject matter, a style she and her clients call "Gothic Traditional": classic traditional structure and bold line carried out with heavy black and a muted palette, drawing on the occult, history, fetish and alternative culture, music, and literature. She tattooed for roughly thirteen years across San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles, including about eight years at Spider Murphy's Tattoo in San Rafael, where she contributed to the studio's published flash collection, before relocating to Los Angeles, where she now keeps a private studio.