Les Skuse

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Les Skuse (* 1912 in Bristol as Leslie Walter Harold Skuse; † 1973 ) was a British tattoo artist . He founded the UK's first tattoo association , the Bristol Tattoo Club, and hosted the world's first tattoo competition. His studio, which opened in 1945, is still run by the third generation to this day.

Life

Leslie Walter Harold Skuse was born the son of a miner in 1912. At the age of 17, Skuse was already “experimenting with needles”. After World War II, during which he served in the air defense, he opened his tattoo shop in his hometown of Bristol. Skuse recognized early on that the establishment of a tattoo club was necessary to create a forum for tattoo fans on the one hand and a mouthpiece for the art of tattooing on the other. He therefore founded the Bristol Tattoo Club in 1953, which hosted the world's first tattoo competition in 1955 (the forerunner of today's tattoo conventions). The studio was taken over by his son Daniel George Leslie, whose wife, Janet Skuse , known as Rusty , was listed in the Guinness Book of Records in the early 1970s as "the most tattooed woman in Great Britain" . Today the studio is run in the third generation by Jimmie Skuse.

literature

  • Marcel Feige: The Tattoo and Piercing Lexicon. Lexikon Imprint Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-89602-209-1 .
  • Marcel Feige : Tattoo-Theo: The tattooed person from the neighborhood. The biography of the great Hamburg tattoo legend . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2001, ISBN 3-89602-355-1 .
  • Margo De Mello : Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community . Duke Univ. Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8223-2467-9 .
  • Jerry Swallow: Traditional American Tattoo Design . Schiffer Publ., 2008, ISBN 978-0-7643-2913-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margo De Mello : Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community . Duke Univ. Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8223-2467-9 , p. 198.
  2. ↑ esquire.co.uk: Top five tattoo parlor. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 27, 2012 ; Retrieved August 3, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.esquire.co.uk
  3. ↑ Marcel Feige: The Tattoo and Piercing Lexicon. P. 276.
  4. ↑ Marcel Feige: The Tattoo and Piercing Lexicon. Pp. 75, 277.
  5. ^ Janet Rusty Skuse - A true great of British tattooing history. Archived from the original ; accessed on January 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Skuse, Les
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skuse, Leslie Walter Harold (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British tattoo artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol
DATE OF DEATH 1973