Family legend has it that Jessie Knight stood no taller than 1.2m (4ft), wore delicate size two shoes and had her hair wrapped in her trademark bun held together by two chopsticks when she shot her abusive husband. He didn’t die – Knight, Britain’s first female tattoo artist, was also a former circus sharp shooter – because she hadn’t aimed for murder but revenge, for kicking her beloved dog down the stairs.

“And that,” says her nephew Neil Hopkins-Thomas, “was the end of that marriage.”

Knight’s story is one of dozens spotlighted in the National Maritime Museum Cornwall’s exhibition on the social history of tattoos in Britain. Backroom tattooists, professional tattoo collectors and sailor culture have all been scrutinised in one of the most extensive reappraisals of body art put on in the UK. The emphasis here is on the artistry of tattoos and few designers make more of a convincing case for the form than Knight, whose personal trove of designs is on show here for the first time ever.


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