Carou Chiarelli
Blackwork tattoo, Hackney

Carou
Chiarelli

Carou Chiarelli, tattoo artist

Stippling, organic shapes, and considered blackwork. Custom-designed for the body it lives on. Working out of Santo Cuervo in London.

Thirteen years
of marking skin.

Carou is a Brazilian tattoo artist with thirteen years behind her. She moved to the UK in 2019 and has kept growing ever since, as an artist and as a person. These days she splits her time between two London studios: Santo Cuervo near Hackney Central, and Sacred Gold in King's Cross.

Her work is blackwork, made from stippling, texture, and organic shapes. She designs around the body it sits on, and she likes to do it with you rather than at you, so the piece ends up feeling like yours.

Away from tattooing she paints, draws, and sculpts. She also started The Lonely Heart Club, built around Clamson: a broken heart who turns up as a Sheriff, a Sugar Skull, and plenty of other things. He's about resilience and transformation, and you can get him tattooed or take him home as wall art.

Portrait of Carou Chiarelli at work

Now booking

Tell me
about your piece.

Send through references, a body placement, and a rough size. I reply to every enquiry personally. Sessions run from Santo Cuervo in Hackney Central.

Studio

Santo Cuervo

Hackney Central, London

Hours

By appointment

Typically Tue to Sat

Reach me

hello@carouchiarelli.com @carouchiarelli