About the Author

Thomas Jeppe is a Melbourne-based artist and founder of publishing house Serps Press. He holds first class honours in Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne, and is the author of Home Made Tattoos Rule (Serps Press 2006), which signalled a turning point in contemporary tattoo culture. His work has been published in numerous books and magazines, including Shoot (Rizzoli, 2009), and he has held exhibitions in Australia, Germany, Mexico and Japan.