Archive Note
Hooper started tattooing around 2000 to 2001 while studying drawing at the London Institute, learning the foundations from Jim MacAirt. After a short period at Into You London he moved to New York to work at Saved Tattoo in Brooklyn, then relocated to Austin, Texas to work at Rock of Ages, before returning to East Sussex, where he now lives and works full time. His tattooing is built on dense pointillism, repetition, fine line work, and sacred-geometry and ornamental motifs such as mandalas, drawing on natural forms, mathematical pattern, cosmology, and early scientific and alchemical illustration. He keeps a parallel fine-art and design practice, and in 2014 Tattoo Life published the monograph Inward: The Art of Thomas Hooper, alongside a series of pattern, line, and mandala reference books and album art for bands including Neurosis and Converge.
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