About Eddy
Eddy Lou (she/her) is a tattooer, artist, and small business owner living on Awabakal Country (Newcastle, Australia).
Tattooing since 2010, Eddy has developed a distinctive style specialising in Illustrative and Blackwork tattooing. Her work features intricate botanicals, animalia, mythological creatures, occult symbolism, and cross-hatched portraits. Influenced by 15th-17th century printmaking, as well as fantasy and alchemical imagery, her inspirations include Gustave Doré, Norman Lindsay, and Surrealists like Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington. She also enjoys creating pop-culture-inspired tattoos such as fantasy and sci-fi literature, cartoons and K-Pop characters.
In 2015, Eddy founded FLT Tattoo Studio, a by-appointment studio that fosters a welcoming and inclusive feminist environment. In 2024, she moved the studio to its current location in Broadmeadow, creating an accessible space which provides an improved experience for clients. As a disabled artist dealing with chronic pain, her lived experience informs how she operates her studio and interacts with clients, striving to create a space where comfort, care, and body autonomy are prioritised.
Beyond tattooing, Eddy is a practicing artist and ceramicist who exhibits her art regularly. She believes that expanding her artistic practice beyond tattooing strengthens her skills and deepens her creative approach. FLT Studio is more than just a tattoo space, it’s a hub for art, community, and feminist activism. Eddy frequently hosts flash days, charity events, and exhibitions, using her platform to uplift marginalised voices and contribute to meaningful causes.
For Eddy, tattooing is an exchange, not just a transaction. Through her meticulous approach to design, placement, and application, she hopes to create tattoos that empower and resonate with those who wear them.
Acknowledgement of Country
I would like to acknowledge the Awabakal and Worimi 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.