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Welcome to the Sydney Tattoo Convention 2026 Artist Application Form!

We’re back for 2026! Applications open Monday, 17 November at 10AM AEDT and close Friday, 17 January 2026, with invitations sent out in early February.Please take a moment to complete this form. Every participating artist is required to submit their own application, even if you’re part of a shop. The information collected here will be securely stored and only shared with the relevant authorities if you are successfully invited — including the City of Sydney for our Temporary Skin Penetration Event Permit and SLED (Security Licensing & Enforcement Directorate) to ensure licensing compliance.If you’re applying as a shop, please remember that each artist must still submit their own individual form. Final booth allocations per shop are determined by the organisers, and most shops roster artists across their allocated booths throughout the weekend. For more information, visit: https://www.sydneytattooconvention.com.au/apply
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    Australia
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    • Albania
    • Algeria
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    • Aruba
    • Australia
    • Austria
    • Azerbaijan
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    • Bahrain
    • Bangladesh
    • Barbados
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    • Belize
    • Benin
    • Bermuda
    • Bhutan
    • Bolivia
    • Bosnia and Herzegovina
    • Botswana
    • Brazil
    • Brunei
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    • Burkina Faso
    • Burundi
    • Cambodia
    • Cameroon
    • Canada
    • Cape Verde
    • Cayman Islands
    • Central African Republic
    • Chad
    • Chile
    • China
    • Christmas Island
    • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
    • Colombia
    • Comoros
    • Congo
    • Cook Islands
    • Costa Rica
    • Cote d'Ivoire
    • Croatia
    • Cuba
    • Curaçao
    • Cyprus
    • Czech Republic
    • Democratic Republic of the Congo
    • Denmark
    • Djibouti
    • Dominica
    • Dominican Republic
    • Ecuador
    • Egypt
    • El Salvador
    • Equatorial Guinea
    • Eritrea
    • Estonia
    • Ethiopia
    • Falkland Islands
    • Faroe Islands
    • Fiji
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    • Gabon
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    • Gibraltar
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    • Greenland
    • Grenada
    • Guadeloupe
    • Guam
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    • Guernsey
    • Guinea
    • Guinea-Bissau
    • Guyana
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    • Honduras
    • Hong Kong
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    • India
    • Indonesia
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    • Iraq
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    • Japan
    • Jersey
    • Jordan
    • Kazakhstan
    • Kenya
    • Kiribati
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
    • Kosovo
    • Kuwait
    • Kyrgyzstan
    • Laos
    • Latvia
    • Lebanon
    • Lesotho
    • Liberia
    • Libya
    • Liechtenstein
    • Lithuania
    • Luxembourg
    • Macau
    • Macedonia
    • Madagascar
    • Malawi
    • Malaysia
    • Maldives
    • Mali
    • Malta
    • Marshall Islands
    • Martinique
    • Mauritania
    • Mauritius
    • Mayotte
    • Mexico
    • Micronesia
    • Moldova
    • Monaco
    • Mongolia
    • Montenegro
    • Montserrat
    • Morocco
    • Mozambique
    • Myanmar
    • Nagorno-Karabakh
    • Namibia
    • Nauru
    • Nepal
    • Netherlands
    • Netherlands Antilles
    • New Caledonia
    • New Zealand
    • Nicaragua
    • Niger
    • Nigeria
    • Niue
    • Norfolk Island
    • Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
    • Northern Mariana
    • Norway
    • Oman
    • Pakistan
    • Palau
    • Palestine
    • Panama
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Paraguay
    • Peru
    • Philippines
    • Pitcairn Islands
    • Poland
    • Portugal
    • Puerto Rico
    • Qatar
    • Republic of the Congo
    • Romania
    • Russia
    • Rwanda
    • Saint Barthelemy
    • Saint Helena
    • Saint Kitts and Nevis
    • Saint Lucia
    • Saint Martin
    • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
    • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    • Samoa
    • San Marino
    • Sao Tome and Principe
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Senegal
    • Serbia
    • Seychelles
    • Sierra Leone
    • Singapore
    • Slovakia
    • Slovenia
    • Solomon Islands
    • Somalia
    • Somaliland
    • South Africa
    • South Ossetia
    • South Sudan
    • Spain
    • Sri Lanka
    • Sudan
    • Suriname
    • Svalbard
    • eSwatini
    • Sweden
    • Switzerland
    • Syria
    • Taiwan
    • Tajikistan
    • Tanzania
    • Thailand
    • Timor-Leste
    • Togo
    • Tokelau
    • Tonga
    • Transnistria Pridnestrovie
    • Trinidad and Tobago
    • Tristan da Cunha
    • Tunisia
    • Turkey
    • Turkmenistan
    • Turks and Caicos Islands
    • Tuvalu
    • Uganda
    • Ukraine
    • United Arab Emirates
    • United Kingdom
    • United States
    • Uruguay
    • Uzbekistan
    • Vanuatu
    • Vatican City
    • Venezuela
    • Vietnam
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Isle of Man
    • US Virgin Islands
    • Wallis and Futuna
    • Western Sahara
    • Yemen
    • Zambia
    • Zimbabwe
    • Other
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    Australia
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    • Afghanistan
    • Albania
    • Algeria
    • American Samoa
    • Andorra
    • Angola
    • Anguilla
    • Antigua and Barbuda
    • Argentina
    • Armenia
    • Aruba
    • Australia
    • Austria
    • Azerbaijan
    • The Bahamas
    • Bahrain
    • Bangladesh
    • Barbados
    • Belarus
    • Belgium
    • Belize
    • Benin
    • Bermuda
    • Bhutan
    • Bolivia
    • Bosnia and Herzegovina
    • Botswana
    • Brazil
    • Brunei
    • Bulgaria
    • Burkina Faso
    • Burundi
    • Cambodia
    • Cameroon
    • Canada
    • Cape Verde
    • Cayman Islands
    • Central African Republic
    • Chad
    • Chile
    • China
    • Christmas Island
    • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
    • Colombia
    • Comoros
    • Congo
    • Cook Islands
    • Costa Rica
    • Cote d'Ivoire
    • Croatia
    • Cuba
    • Curaçao
    • Cyprus
    • Czech Republic
    • Democratic Republic of the Congo
    • Denmark
    • Djibouti
    • Dominica
    • Dominican Republic
    • Ecuador
    • Egypt
    • El Salvador
    • Equatorial Guinea
    • Eritrea
    • Estonia
    • Ethiopia
    • Falkland Islands
    • Faroe Islands
    • Fiji
    • Finland
    • France
    • French Polynesia
    • Gabon
    • The Gambia
    • Georgia
    • Germany
    • Ghana
    • Gibraltar
    • Greece
    • Greenland
    • Grenada
    • Guadeloupe
    • Guam
    • Guatemala
    • Guernsey
    • Guinea
    • Guinea-Bissau
    • Guyana
    • Haiti
    • Honduras
    • Hong Kong
    • Hungary
    • Iceland
    • India
    • Indonesia
    • Iran
    • Iraq
    • Ireland
    • Israel
    • Italy
    • Jamaica
    • Japan
    • Jersey
    • Jordan
    • Kazakhstan
    • Kenya
    • Kiribati
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
    • Kosovo
    • Kuwait
    • Kyrgyzstan
    • Laos
    • Latvia
    • Lebanon
    • Lesotho
    • Liberia
    • Libya
    • Liechtenstein
    • Lithuania
    • Luxembourg
    • Macau
    • Macedonia
    • Madagascar
    • Malawi
    • Malaysia
    • Maldives
    • Mali
    • Malta
    • Marshall Islands
    • Martinique
    • Mauritania
    • Mauritius
    • Mayotte
    • Mexico
    • Micronesia
    • Moldova
    • Monaco
    • Mongolia
    • Montenegro
    • Montserrat
    • Morocco
    • Mozambique
    • Myanmar
    • Nagorno-Karabakh
    • Namibia
    • Nauru
    • Nepal
    • Netherlands
    • Netherlands Antilles
    • New Caledonia
    • New Zealand
    • Nicaragua
    • Niger
    • Nigeria
    • Niue
    • Norfolk Island
    • Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
    • Northern Mariana
    • Norway
    • Oman
    • Pakistan
    • Palau
    • Palestine
    • Panama
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Paraguay
    • Peru
    • Philippines
    • Pitcairn Islands
    • Poland
    • Portugal
    • Puerto Rico
    • Qatar
    • Republic of the Congo
    • Romania
    • Russia
    • Rwanda
    • Saint Barthelemy
    • Saint Helena
    • Saint Kitts and Nevis
    • Saint Lucia
    • Saint Martin
    • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
    • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    • Samoa
    • San Marino
    • Sao Tome and Principe
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Senegal
    • Serbia
    • Seychelles
    • Sierra Leone
    • Singapore
    • Slovakia
    • Slovenia
    • Solomon Islands
    • Somalia
    • Somaliland
    • South Africa
    • South Ossetia
    • South Sudan
    • Spain
    • Sri Lanka
    • Sudan
    • Suriname
    • Svalbard
    • eSwatini
    • Sweden
    • Switzerland
    • Syria
    • Taiwan
    • Tajikistan
    • Tanzania
    • Thailand
    • Timor-Leste
    • Togo
    • Tokelau
    • Tonga
    • Transnistria Pridnestrovie
    • Trinidad and Tobago
    • Tristan da Cunha
    • Tunisia
    • Turkey
    • Turkmenistan
    • Turks and Caicos Islands
    • Tuvalu
    • Uganda
    • Ukraine
    • United Arab Emirates
    • United Kingdom
    • United States
    • Uruguay
    • Uzbekistan
    • Vanuatu
    • Vatican City
    • Venezuela
    • Vietnam
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Isle of Man
    • US Virgin Islands
    • Wallis and Futuna
    • Western Sahara
    • Yemen
    • Zambia
    • Zimbabwe
    • Other
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    Please enter your full phone number including your country code if you are outside Australia
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    This information is required for licensing by the Security Licensing & Enforcement Directorate (SLED), in accordance with the Tattoo Industry Regulation 2023 (Regulation 20(a)) which mandates the date and place of birth of each authorised participant. Please enter the Suburb/Town and State or Country of your birth.
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    Please specify the tattoo studio you work at. If you're currently traveling, on tour, or working in a private studio enter here.
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    If you — or the shop you work at — have taken part in previous tattoo conventions or expos in the Sydney area, you will already hold a TSP number. This number can be used at more than one tattoo event in the Sydney area.
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    Your TSP number appears in the format TSP/202-/–.
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    Required if from NSW or QLD Australia.
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    Required if from NSW or QLD Australia.
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    If you're successfully invited, will you need to hire a massage table? The cost is $100 for all 3 days, and a separate invoice will be issued upon confirmation..
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    If you're successfully invited, please provide a short artist bio for our Instagram announcements. You may want to include details like your tattooing background, years in the industry, notable achievements, studios you've worked at, preferred tattoo styles, booking info, and what you'll be offering at the convention (e.g. prints, originals, walk-ups, or appointments only). 💡 Want AI to improve your bio? Click here to use ChatGPT to refine your text, then copy & paste the improved version into the form. .
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    Please upload 5 images of your tattoo work and 1 optional photo of yourself in the next step. Please note: these images will only be used if you are successfully invited. To ensure your images fit seamlessly into our Instagram announcement templates, please follow the portrait format (1080 x 1350, 4:5 aspect ratio) — this avoids any unwanted cropping. If you’d like your tattoo images displayed in a specific order, feel free to arrange them accordingly. Front (1st slide) sample:
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    2nd - 6th Instagram slide sample:
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    Please upload 5 images of your tattoo work and 1 optional photo of yourself, using Instagram’s portrait format (1080 x 1350, 4:5 aspect ratio). This ensures your images fit perfectly within our announcement template without any cropping. If you have a preferred order for your tattoo photos, feel free to arrange them as you’d like. Please note: These images will only be used if you are successfully invited.
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    We’d love to know why you’re interested in being part of the convention! If there’s anything else you’d like us to know — special requests, preferences, personal messages, or anything that would help us — please feel free to share it here!
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    By signing below, I confirm that the information I’ve provided is true and accurate. I give permission for Sydney Tattoo Convention and Australian Tattoo Arts Ltd to securely store my details for event and licensing purposes, and to share them only with the City of Sydney and SLED as required. I also consent to any submitted or event-taken photos or artwork being used for promotional or marketing purposes, unless I request otherwise in writing. Signature:
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