This year will see well over 400 of the finest, most talented, elite tattoo artists converging on the event’s Docklands venue, situated midway between the northern approaches to Tower Bridge and the Rotherhithe Tunnel.

Organiser Tattoo Life Publication proudly claims that nowhere else will in the world will you find such accomplished skin-inkers as TV stars Megan Massacre (NY Ink and America’s Worst Tattoos), Tim Hendricks (NY Ink) and Phil Kyle (London Ink) all working under one roof at the same time.

Don Ed Hardy, a living legend on the international tattoo scene, has accepted the invitation to exhibit his work for the first time at this year’s International London Tattoo Convention.

Multiple Hardy Marks will showcase his multifaceted artistic career, which over many years has embraced every medium from engraving to ceramics, oil painting, acrylics and watercolours.

Acclaimed fire-breathing tattooed acrobatic dance troupe The Fuel Girls will return to star as resident performers on the Main Stage, alongside a diverse host of amazing burlesque, sword swallowing, striptease and trapeze performers.

Performers who are also well known on the fetish scene include Yusura (pictured in our main banner at her first London Tattoo Con back in 2010), Červená Fox, Shelly d’Inferno and Sweden’s Elegy Ellem.