Grace Neutral (born Grace Walker, 29 March 1989) is a British television presenter, model, and hand-poke tattoo artist based in the United Kingdom.
She holds a substantial social media presence with over half a million followers and in 2016 she was the presenter in an I-D magazine documentary Beyond Beauty.
Grace 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 age 20 she relocated to London, where she now lives and works.
Grace began ballet dancing at a young age and trained with the Royal Ballet, eventually sustaining an injury that ended her ballet career.
After this injury she became interested in body modifications and culture, which later became the focus of her career, she has numerous extreme body modifications including a bifurcated tongue, tattooed eyes, reconstructed ears, a removed navel, and facial scarification.
Grace entered the body modification industry as a piercer before hand-poke tattooing, a machine-free tattooing method. She previously worked for Good Times Tattoo and attended the London Tattoo Convention with them in 2014.
In 2015, Neutral was featured in the Phaze What music video "Tokyo."
She is the presenter of I-D Magazine documentary series Beyond Beauty, which launched on the I-D YouTube channel and she currently works at Old Habits tattoo shop in Haggerston, London.
Neutral's documentary Beyond Beauty with i-D magazine aired on Viceland in 2016.
She is currently the presenter of Needles and Pins, a Viceland series documenting tattoo culture across the globe.
Get to know Grace Neutral, the 26-year-old handpoke tattoo artist who took herself from self-confessed alternative weirdo to actual pixie dreamgirl with a series of dramatic body modifications.
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