Maddi is a tattooer and painter based in Newcastle, New South Wales, currently working out of Wedgetail Tattoo in Adamstown, as well as one day a week at Stella Tattoo in Long Jetty.
Her style is heavily influenced by Australian flora and fauna, along with traditional and neo traditional tattooing styles. She enjoys exploring how she can blend this Australian imagery into her own tattoo style, tattooing anything from animals, botanical arrangements, ladies, as well as working closely with her clients to bring their ideas to life!
Spending the majority of her career working out of walk-in tattoo studios, has seen Maddi develop the ability to adapt to most tattooing styles, so that she can give her clients the best tattoo and experience possible.
Maddi has been tattooing full time for the past 10 years, beginning her career at the end of 2014, with an apprenticeship under Joe Kintz at Dee Why Tattoo. Since then she has moved, alongside her mentor, to Whistler Street Tattoo in Manly, working from this location from 2018 until January of 2025. A recent move up north has seen Maddi settle in Newcastle, tattooing alongside Renae at her shop, Wedgetail Tattoo, as well as a day a week on the central coast with the crew at Stella Tattoo in Long Jetty.
Throughout her career she has worked alongside many talented tattooers not only within her resident tattoo studios, but also through various guest spots and tattoo conventions over the years.
Before beginning her career in tattooing, Maddi studied at Sydney University, graduating with a Bachelor of Visual Arts, majoring in Fine Art. Her time studying also saw her gain the opportunity to study abroad for a semester in the UK at Newcastle University in 2013. Throughout this 3 year degree, Maddi’s art practice further developed, and only made her desire for a full time career in an artistic field even stronger.
Maddi has always had an interest in art and all things creative from a very young age. Her mother has been a huge artistic influence on her, growing up surrounded by her mothers own extensive art practice. This saw her gain endless opportunities to explore all kinds of artistic mediums from pastel paintings, watercolour, acrylics, as well as many forms of sculptural art.
Her interest in the world of tattooing began throughout her high school years, only growing stronger upon witnessing her parents getting tattooed, until she got her first tattoo from Joe Kintz in 2011. Her love of tattooing continues, as she continues to grow and develope as an artist.
