Grace Neutral

Grace Walker (born 29 March 1989), known professionally as Grace Neutral, is a British television presenter, model, and hand-poke tattoo artist based in the United Kingdom.[1][2] She holds a substantial social media presence with over half a million followers.[1][3] In 2016 Neutral was the presenter in an i-D magazine documentary Beyond Beauty.[4]

Grace Neutral
Born
Grace Walker

(1989-03-29) 29 March 1989
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
NationalityBritish
Occupations
Websitewww.instagram.com/GraceNeutral

Personal life

Neutral was born in Dubai and spent most of her childhood traveling around the world with her family until settling in southwest England where she attended the independent school Plymouth College. At the age of 20, she relocated to London, where she now lives and works.[5] Neutral began ballet dancing at a young age[6] and trained with the Royal Ballet, eventually sustaining an injury that ended her ballet career.[7] After this injury she became interested in body modifications and culture, which later became the focus of her career.[7] In 2008 she moved to Bristol where she enrolled on a stage makeup course at City of Bristol College, before moving to London in 2010 where she got a job at the café in Madame Tussauds.[8] Neutral has numerous extreme body modifications including a bifurcated tongue, tattooed eyes, reconstructed ears, a removed navel, and facial scarification.[9]

Career

Neutral entered the body modification industry as a piercer before hand-poke tattooing,[10] a machine-free tattooing method. Neutral previously worked for Good Times Tattoo and attended the London Tattoo Convention[11] with them in 2014.

Neutral is the founder of Femme Fatale Studio.[12]

Television and film appearances

In 2012 she co-starred in Idles music video for their song "26/27" alongside a group of her Bristol based female friends, filmed on location at their home and directed by former Tracey Beaker star Felix Drake.[13] In 2015, she was featured in the Phaze What music video Tokyo.[14] She is the presenter of i-D magazine documentary series Beyond Beauty,[15] which launched on the i-D YouTube channel.

Neutral's documentary Beyond Beauty with i-D magazine aired on Viceland in 2016.[4] She is currently the presenter of Needles and Pins, a Viceland series documenting tattoo culture across the globe. In 2021 she sat as a subject on Season 8 of Sky Arts' Portrait Artist of the Year.[16]

Books
  • Neutral (2019)

References
  1. Jones, Ellen E. (16 September 2016). "Viceland: how VICE's TV network aims to be 'the most original and important channel for young people'". Evening Standard.
  2. Nickell, Amy; Johnson, Krystal (6 November 2015). "Tattooed 'pixie dream girl' redefining the face of beauty as we know it". Yahoo News.
  3. Instagram
  4. I.D. staff (27 October 2016). "Grace Neutral". VICE Media.
  5. "grace neutral was born to be different | read | i-D". i-D. Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  6. "Spindle". spindlemagazine.com. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  7. Judy Godhart (25 February 2016), Grace Neutral on Self Love, retrieved 4 March 2017
  8. "GRACE NEUTRAL | TTTISM". TTTism. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  9. Dunn, Francesca (1 December 2014). "Grace Neutral's Beauty is Out of This World". Vice. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  10. Squier, Chemmie (2 November 2015). "We Chatted With Grace Neutral About Her Clothing Collection, Tattoos and Body Modification". The Defrief. Archived from the original on 29 November 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  11. "Grace Neutral". The International London Tattoo Convention. 2014. Archived from the original on 29 November 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  12. Thompson, Hannah (8 July 2021). "24 Of The Most Stunning Hand-Poked Tattoos". Elle.
  13. "IDLES: 26/27 | imdb". IMDb. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  14. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Phaze What - Tokyo (Official Video). YouTube.
  15. "Grace Neutral | i-D". i-D. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  16. "Portrait Artist of the Year| sky.com". sky.com. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
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