Jim Georgiou
My name is Dimitris Georgiou, I’m a 21 year old uni student and a tattoo artist born and spent a few years of my teenage in Adelaide South Australia and grew up in Piraeus Greece.
My story with art starts since I was a little kid, I used to draw wherever I was, from school to bus stations, in every single place imaginable. My favorite gifts and presents for birthdays and Christmas were a packet of new pencils , even I had an XBOX next to it, the first I would use were gonna be the pencils.
Years went by and in my last year of school in Australia and after using every single medium to create art, my art teacher said that for my last project I would have to choose only 2 mediums, and for me it would be pencil and pen. After doing about both of them I found out that these 2 were the most common for tattoo designs. Then I thought to myself what if I became a tattoo artist but this thought left as soon as it came as I was like “what are people gonna say about me and blah blah blah”. So my next level was to start creating tattoo designs for people who wanted tattoos.
When I got my first tattoo, that was the trigger for my young career in tattooing. So I got my first tattoo which was a wing on my right arm, a sketch that I did and the hidden meaning behind it was the guardian angel. Most people would think he started because he saw the other artist and wanted to try it out. The real reason behind my start was because I saw a lot of people that were closely related to me, friends or relatives, changing their attitude against me because I now had a tattoo. That frustrated me a lot and at the same time motivated me to start learning to tattoo because I could combine the artistic part of it with the psychological part, and the most important thing which was to meet new people and learn their personal experiences through their life and then put the art to keep it permanent on skin. To be honest I have no problem with a tattoo that has no meaning because again I look at it from both perspectives, so I ‘m ok with someone that wants a tattoo which includes just the artistic part even though it’s even more exciting and you can be more creative if there is the psychological part of it in it.
At the moment I don’t consider myself a complete tattoo artist, I’m very young I have a lot to learn and the thing that I like with tattoos is that they don’t have an ending line… Even the best tattoo artist learns something new every day and keeps creating something new. My next step is to take a few classes with a pro to learn more in depth about it and visit New Zealand during my trip to Australia to learn about the Maori tribe and how they put ink into the skin.