The PTA is the UK's only full-time organisation dedicated to teaching the correct procedures and practices of the professional tattoo artist.

Course Information

The Professional Tattoo Academy (UK) provides various courses that have been designed to be as interesting and informative as possible.

Students are expected to give their best efforts during drawing and machine assembly sessions. If they use their course time well, students are guaranteed to leave the academy with a far greater artistic competence than when they arrived.

Each day of the course is structured in a similar way to other establishments of further education: a prompt start time of 10:00 with a lunch break at 12:30, resuming at 13:30 and finishing at around 17:00.

After successfully completing the Two Week Professional Course, students will be awarded a certificate and will also qualify to become members of The Professional Tattoo Academy (UK). This is intended to help create more of a co-operative tattoo community as opposed to its current territorial status.

Reunions are scheduled annually for the purpose of graduates and families to meet, to share their expertise and to exchange ideas.

Associations like this are regarded by the media and some governmental bodies as being more professional, which helps to promote tattoo artists in a more positive way to the general public.

Important: in some areas of the UK local legislation dictates that a certificate of training is required before permission is granted for opening a new tattoo or body piercing business.