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Inked Lifestyle Expo Ink Off Artist vs Artist event schedule: Friday 1 PM Lines & Dots, Saturday 2 PM Anime/Pop Culture, Sunday 11 AM Realism with a gold star saying Voted Daily People's Choice Award.

Ink Off

Watch 2 artists go head-to-head in an Ink Battle Off, competing in their specialized styles LIVE, and YOU are the one voting for who takes out the competition. Make sure to drop by and cast your vote for your favorite tattoo.  Each battle has a limit of 8 hours maximum from start to finish with their client.

We bring you an Inked Battle every day with a different style category.

May the best tattoo win!

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Inked Apprentice Games

Will these budding apprentices have what it takes to prove themselves in gruelling challenges we have cooked up to keep you entertained.

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Four people on stage at Inked 2025 Expo, one holding a microphone interviewing a woman in a black top and jeans.
Smiling woman with red hair in a red plaid shirt holding a blue cup and standing in front of a large illuminated sign.
Woman standing next to a table with stacked white papers in front of a large screen showing event text.
Man wearing a black cap and gloves working with rolled-up papers under bright stage lights.
Man with tattoos and a mustache speaking into a microphone while seated on a white chair on stage at the Inked 2025 Expo.
Woman wearing black gloves preparing a tattoo station covered in plastic wrap.
Woman with a microphone standing on stage in front of a large screen with event text.
Four men standing on stage at Australia's Tattoo & Culture Expo 2025 with one holding a microphone.
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Man with a mustache and cap speaking into a microphone in front of a large illuminated screen displaying the word PRESENTS.
Four judges seated at a table with drinks and a microphone, facing an audience at an event.
Four tattooed people, three leaning on a table with drinks, attentively watching something at a tattoo expo.
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Where 1st year tattoo apprentices will battle it out with a series of crazy tasks designed to challenge the up and coming artists to their limits and to prove who the best Tattoo Apprentice of 2026 really is. In 2025 Apprentice Sarah took home the title!

Our challenges will take them through a fast paced timeline of an old school apprenticeship, let's hope they can keep up with what we have in store for them.

The stakes are a title of the Inked Expo Apprentice of the year along with an Amazing prize pack including a wireless tattoo machine, a coloured ink set from Radiant ink and more donated from Melbourne tattoo supplies.

Email chris@inkedexpo.com.au to enter this exciting new series...

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