Matt Bailey is a UK based illustrator residing in London as a tattoo artist. His work often displays a simple ink drawing within a square box and caption underneath. His work exhibits medieval, tarot-card simplicity and darkness themes to them with a side of explicit and flavorsome material, not for the faint of heart.
Matt Bailey is an admitted and self-confessed voracious reader, thus has inspired his morbid fascination with mortality and occult. He is said to have taken a liking to Mike Mignola's Hellboy and Robert Ball's Winter Knight, other inspirations from Becky Cloonan's short comics.
Something else that has attracted a wider audience is Bailey's more political pieces which convey personal opinions and views towards some of the most recent events regarding a change in power or a distaste towards certain groups. Because a couple of his pieces exhibit mutilation and harm there has been mixed opinions and general criticism that coming from audiences with conflicting views, which luckily have not stopped him from working his magic.
Bailey profits his work by selling merchandise on his store and by making turning his work in to eye-catching works of art on skin at Parliament Tattoo studio in London.
