Michele Servadio was born in Italy in 1986. He grew up in a small village in the Veneto countryside. Drawn to painting and drawing from an early age, Servadio attended the Art School in Padua and the University of Visual Arts in Venice. In 2007 he approached the world of tattoos, fascinated by its tradition and cultural phenomenon. He moved to London in 2010.

In his atelier in Hackney Wick, Servadio creates new projects which interconnect the different practices of tattooing, painting, printmaking, photography, and performance art. Merging these diciplines, feeding them back into one another, he creates a unique universe where he is able to explore and describe the human condition and his environment.

The aesthetics of his work is dark and melancholic; it embodies Folklore, expressionism, and the bleakness of a post-industrial scenario.

In 2014 he started to experiment with sound and tattooing. This gave birth to ‘Body of Reverbs’, a contemporary Ritual combining sound, pain, accupuncture and permanent marks on the body. Body of Reverbs has been presented in the form of live performances and instilations across the UK, Europe, Asia and America.

The need to unite all my practices into one led to the creation of this series, where photography, printmaking, and painting are merged into a single artwork.

Developed during a residency with Varsi Art & Lab, the works begin with screen printed photographs transferred onto copper plates. I then work on the plates using a monotype approach, allowing for a tactile, open-ended process that emphasizes gesture, material, and surface.

The series stems from the photographic project How to Never Forget a Song, which explores the intersection of tattooing and art.

Both projects share a concern with memory, presence, and transformation. To Forget continues a practice of merging mediums and bodies, where people become part of the artwork, and the artwork becomes a trace of something lived.

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