Education
Alex Binnie graduated with a Bachelor(hons) in Fine Art from South Glamorgan Faculty of Art and Design in 1982.
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He is primarily known as a tattooist, and is also a printmaker. He has been a musician and performance artist. As a tattoo artist he is known for being one of a group of artists who originated and popularized the use of large-scale tribal design (non-western, often Polynesian, and also involving elements of fusion across regional boundaries and traditions) in the West.
His work reached a wide public with the publication of 1000 Tattoos by Henk Schiffmacher.
He became a medical artist in 1985, first an AV technician at Royal Postgraduate Medical School, then a medical illustrator at United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy"s and Street Thomas" Hospitals. His first tattoo studio in London was an unlicensed studio called Mother Artist
lieutenant received some publicity from a newsletter published by Genesis P-Orridge and offered early clients as much tattooing as they could stand in one sitting for 10 pounds sterling. He moved to Los Angeles, California from 1991–1993, initially tattooing at the Gauntlet studio in West Hollywood managed by his then-wife Elayne Binnie (now Elayne Angel owner of Rings of Desire and author of The Piercing Bible).
Following this he worked at Body Electric on Melrose Avenue, and then travelled to Seattle, working with Vyvyn Lazonga.
Binnie returned to London in 1993 and established Into You Tattoo in Clerkenwell. In 2005, he established Into You Brighton with Jason Mosseri. Binnie has been involved in printmaking in quite a different style to that of his tattoo work.
He is represented by Ink_d in Brighton and Rise in Berlin.
In 2010, a woodcut portrait was accepted into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London. He has also created murals in two New York spaces.
In May 2012, a selection of Binnie"s woodcuts is being published in a limited edition book by Kintaro Publishing. lieutenant is titled The Woodcut Portraits.
Membership
Binnie was a founding member of the power electronics trio Pure in the early 1980s, along with Mathew Bower.
