Category: News

Australia Tour 2026 — Tattoo Travel Plans

My fiancé and I are heading back on the road in our 1965 GMC and 1975 Viscount caravan, and I’ll be tattooing around Australia as we travel.

Last time I didn’t end up doing many guest spots because adjusting to full-time travel took more than we expected. We’ve found our rhythm now, and with NSW dropping their tattoo licence fee, I’m hoping to visit a lot more places this time.

When will you know where I’ll be?

I’m not going to post a detailed schedule or guess where I’ll be months in advance. Every time I try to map it out, something changes.

Once I’ve officially locked in dates with a studio and found somewhere to camp nearby, I’ll share those dates and locations here and on my socials. Until then, please treat everything as flexible and “in planning”.

How to get me to your town

If you want me to visit, camping info is the most useful thing you can give me. Affordable or free camps—or private property with space for a van + dog and access to water/power—make a huge difference to whether I can stop somewhere to work.

Comment the town you’d like me to visit below. If someone has already mentioned your location, reply to their comment to second/third it. That helps me see where the strongest interest is.

Saturday the 11th of February With Love Tattoo held a valentines themed flash day at With Love Tattoo with all proceeds donated to the local Salisbury State School.

Malika, Mitch, Jesse and myself pre-prepared an A3 sheet of small flash designs for flash day customers to choose from. Along with these we had a small sheet of little designs. For those who didn’t want a tattoo we had a big raffle of goodies donated by local businesses in the area.

Come flash day we had a line up out the door! Mitch and Malika were booked out in a few minutes. I ended up tattooing a couple of Mitch’s designs because of this which I found fun and quite the learning experience as I don’t usually tattoo straight traditional. Jesse was incredibly helpful suggesting traditional colours to me. Turns out traditional is a lot harder than your think. At least for my brain that is all about detailed designs and lots of colour blends. It was a huge and humbling learning curve.

After I punched out a couple of Mitch’s flash designs I tattooed two of my willy wag tails on the ribs, minus the heart and ribbon as it was for a bloke. I ended the day with a couple of the little designs for some lovely ladies who waited very patiently for their turn.

To hear at the end of a good 12 hours of tattooing that we had raised just under $6000 was hella rewarding!

The funds raised will be going toward air-conditioning for the school classrooms. I was shocked to learn that Queensland state schools have the same budget for air-conditioning as the southern, more cooler states. Anyone local to Queensland knows how brutal and humid our summers can be, and being stuck with sweat to a plastic chair in a 40 degree classroom doesn’t make for ideal learning conditions. I know, as I went through that myself! (I wonder if my grades would have been better with aircon? Hah … probably.)

Many thanks to Mike and Chloe for helping on the counter. Also a big thanks to the many local businesses who supported the event. Shout out to Melinda’s Gluten Free Goodies, Mark Ward Property, Feeling Peachy, Few & Far Collective, Death Before Decaf & Salisbury Barbers.

Last but not least thank you to everyone who came and got a tattoo, bought a raffle ticket and helped spread the word!
I  have lots of designs on my flash sheet I would still love to tattoo. If you are interested in a cute little Australian design please send me a message through my enquiry page.

It’s a new year with new beginnings, so I am very excited to announce I have relocated and am now working at With Love Tattoo, a brand new studio to Brisbane. With Love Tattoo is family owned and operated tattoo studio offering expert tattooing, owned and operated by Malika Rose and Mitch Love.

Located in the leafy suburbs of Salisbury just 20 minutes south of the Brisbane CBD, With Love Tattoo is set amongst a small & friendly group of shops complete with onsite parking, a vietnamese restaurant and chemist to buy all your aftercare supplies. There are regular bus services down the street and the Salisbury Train station is a 14 minute walk away.

The studio interior is spacious and beautifully decorated with artwork by world renowned tattooers. I am super stoked for this opportunity to tattoo you all here in 2017 here alongside the absolute legends Mitch, Malika and Jesse!

If you would like to book in a tattoo, send me an email  to discuss your ideas or call the shop on (07) 3276 8718. I’ll be in the studio Tuesdays to Saturdays 10 – 6pm. With Love Tattoo is a street shop so walk ins are welcome!

Hello all!  For those who don’t know me yet, my name is Drea. I am a professional, licensed tattooer and artist based in Brisbane Australia.

For years I have been displaying all my portfolio work, news, blogs and art for sale in different nooks and spaces all over the web. It was a little difficult and confusing for people who follow my work to keep up. I decided it was time to have one place for it all. And here it is! Welcome to my brand new website.

Here on the blog I’ll be keeping everyone up to date with news, possible travel dates for the future and talking about anything and everything tattoo or art related. Think reviews, advice, tips tutorials and the life around me that inspires my work. Saying that, it’ll most probably contain a lot of photos of cars and dogs!

On the portfolio page you can find all my latest artworks, filtered and automatically updated. The contact page has a dedicated tattoo booking form and very soon I will list my prints, original paintings and products available for purchase on the shop page.

I look forward to sharing what I have to offer with you all.

Tell me what you think. Do you like it? Or maybe you would like to offer a suggestion? I would love to hear from you. After all I made this site for you guys! xo