Tony Cohen

From BMEzine Encyclopedia

Owner of the studio "The Illustrated Man" and tattooing since 1969, Tony Cohen is one of Australia's modern tattooing fathers. Cohen has travelled all over the world and collected and given tattoo's to some of the most well known tattooists of their day, Rusty Skuse (Les Skuse's wife) and George Bone in England. Lyle Tuttle, Ed Hardy and Cliff Raven in America.

Cohen is firmly entrenched in the Old School of tattooing bold outlines and bright colour, but can and will tattoo almost any style one could wish. Cohen has tattooed many of Australia's celebraties with musician/activist Angry Anderson wearing full sleeves and more of Cohen's work.

An avid collector of tattoo memorabilia Cohen helped compile "The Tattoo" in 1994 to share and show what he had collected over the years.