Grace Neutral

Grace Neutral (born Grace Walker, 29 March 1989) is a British television presenter, model, and hand-poke tattoo artist based in the United Kingdom.[1][2] She holds a substantial social media presence with over half a million followers.[1][3] In 2016 Neutral was the presenter in an I-D magazine documentary Beyond Beauty.[4]

Grace Neutral
Born (1989-03-29) 29 March 1989
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
NationalityBritish
Occupation
Websitewww.instagram.com/GraceNeutral

Personal life

Neutral was born in Dubai and spent most of her childhood traveling around the world with her family until settling in southwest England where she attended the independent school Plymouth College. At age 20, she relocated to London, where she now lives and works.[5] Neutral began ballet dancing at a young age[6] and trained with the Royal Ballet, eventually sustaining an injury that ended her ballet career.[7] After this injury she became interested in body modifications and culture, which later became the focus of her career.[7] Neutral has numerous extreme body modifications including a bifurcated tongue, tattooed eyes, reconstructed ears, a removed navel, and facial scarification.

Career

Neutral entered the body modification industry as a piercer before hand-poke tattooing,[8] a machine-free tattooing method. Neutral previously worked for Good Times Tattoo and attended the London Tattoo Convention[9] with them in 2014.

In 2015, Neutral was featured in the Phaze What music video Tokyo.[10] She is the presenter of I-D Magazine documentary series Beyond Beauty,[11] which launched on the I-D YouTube channel.

Neutral currently works at her own studio- Femme Fatale Studio in Hackney Wick.

Television appearances

Neutral's documentary Beyond Beauty with i-D magazine aired on Viceland in 2016.[4] She is currently the presenter of Needles and Pins, a Viceland series documenting tattoo culture across the globe.

References
  1. Jones, Ellen E. (September 16, 2016). "Viceland: how VICE's TV network aims to be 'the most original and important channel for young people'". Evening Standard.
  2. Nickell, Amy; Johnson, Krystal (November 6, 2015). "Tattooed 'pixie dream girl' redefining the face of beauty as we know it". Yahoo News.
  3. Instagram
  4. I.D. staff (October 27, 2016). "Grace Neutral". VICE Media.
  5. "grace neutral was born to be different | read | i-D". i-D. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  6. "Spindle". spindlemagazine.com. Retrieved Jun 13, 2020.
  7. Judy Godhart (2016-02-25), Grace Neutral on Self Love, retrieved 2017-03-04
  8. Squier, Chemmie (November 2, 2015). "We Chatted With Grace Neutral About Her Clothing Collection, Tattoos and Body Modification". The Defrief.
  9. http://www.thelondontattooconvention.com/artists/post/2014-grace-neutral/
  10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pcLodlSG0k
  11. "Grace Neutral | i-D". i-D. Retrieved 2017-03-04.


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