Rue Okafor

Books open

Healed, not fresh

Rue Okafor

Fine line

Botanical

Script

she/her

Availability

Next opening

November

At Magpie since

2016

Instagram

@rue.okafor.ink

Rue trained in Lagos and Berlin before landing on Alder Street in 2016. She draws everything at actual size so the finest lines still hold as skin ages, and she will tell you honestly when an idea needs to be bigger.

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Healed work by

Rue Okafor.

Photographed six weeks or more after the session, so you see how the lines and colour settle, not how they look on day one.

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Peony

Forearm

Healed

14 months

Framed wildflowers

Forearm

Healed

8 months

Wild rose spray

Shoulder blade

Healed

1 year

Tiny sprig

Neck

Healed

6 months

Floral spray

Shoulder

Healed

10 months

Script

Shoulder

Healed

2 years

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On the wall right now.

Drawn once and tattooed once. Claim a sheet and it comes off the wall for good.

No.

026

Rue

Peony

9 cm · $180

No.

026

Rue

Peony

9 cm · $180

No.

026

Rue

Peony

9 cm · $180

No.

027

Rue

Olive branch

12 cm · $160

No.

027

Rue

Olive branch

12 cm · $160

No.

027

Rue

Olive branch

12 cm · $160

No.

028

Rue

Moon phases

10 cm · $140

No.

028

Rue

Moon phases

10 cm · $140

No.

028

Rue

Moon phases

10 cm · $140

Prices include the aftercare kit

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Meet the artists

Teo Marsh

American traditional

Flash

Books open

Flash Fridays

Hana Ilves

Blackwork

Ornamental

Waitlist open

Jan

Dario Pell

Japanese

Large-scale

By consult only

Spring