Grey Lines
An installation
Marie Hadley & Adam McDade
17 September – 15 November 2025
Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle
Part methodological manifesto, part love letter to a medium. Grey Lines places the embodied experience of tattoo at its core, offering new ways to think about authorship, collaboration, and the disconnection between law and the practices it seeks to govern.
Process
Practice
It’s not just like one angle, it’s like, you know, it’s almost like a lifecycle. But it starts with the artist and none of us are a tattoo artist we don’t know that experience. But you can kind of feel like, almost like you’re coming in here, and there’s no client here, and there’s no tattoo artist here, so it’s like, are you the client? Are you the tattoo artist? Or are you both? Or are you none – all at once?
Focus group participant 25 September 2025
Service
