About Eddy
Eddy Lou (she/her) is a tattooer, artist and small business owner living on Awabakal Country (Newcastle, Australia.) Eddy has been tattooing since 2010 and through the years has rendered her distinctive style, specialising in Illustrative and Blackwork tattooing with a focus on intricate botanicals, animalia, mythological creatures, occult imagery and cross hatched portraits. Eddy’s practice as a multidisciplinary artist is informed by 15th-17th century printmaking and alchemical and fantasy imagery. Stylistically, Eddy is inspired by the likes of Gustave Doré, Norman Lindsay, Albrecht Dürer, and Surrealists like Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington, though she also loves to do pop-culture inspired tattoos.
In 2015, Eddy Lou founded FLT Tattoo Studio located in Hamilton, Newcastle. FLT is an appointment only studio where Eddy and her team are able to focus on creating quality, custom tattoos in a calm, welcoming and inclusive environment. Eddy has redefined tattoo shop culture in Newcastle and vocally holds space for women, and marginalised folks like people with disabilities and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Beyond tattooing and maintaining FLT, Eddy is a practicing artist and ceramicist and actively contributes to the wider community with regular guest spots around Australia and internationally, as well as facilitating the Not Just A Girl tattoo charity flash day event, raising over $135000 so far. The proceeds were shared amongst charities offering services to victims of gendered violence, women and children experiencing homelessness, and assistance for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders girls. Eddy continued work on NJAG hosting a feminist tattoo podcast. FLT Tattoo Studio also regularly holds charitable events and fundraisers to help better the community, support marginalised folks and raise awareness for feminist causes.
Receiving a tattoo from Eddy is not a basic retail experience, rather, an exchange between artist and tattoo collector. As a feminist, Eddy ultimately hopes that those who wear her work feel a sense of body autonomy and empowerment as a result of her meticulous approach to design, placement and application.
Acknowledgement of Country
I would like to acknowledge the Awabakal people who are the traditional custodians of this land where we live, learn and work. I acknowledge that this land was stolen and sovereignty was never ceded, it always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
I pay my respects to the Elders past and present and extend that recognition to their descendants. Myself and the artists at FLT Tattoo Studio are committed to honouring the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas.