A tattoo studio in Central London.
London's Glitch is a contemporary tattoo studio in Southwark SE1, close to London Bridge, with Borough station around eight minutes' walk away and Elephant & Castle station and Mercato Metropolitano close by. A diverse roster of resident artists working across multiple disciplines in our spacious open-plan studio. For clients who prefer a quieter experience or are having intimate placements tattooed, a dedicated private station is also available.
Looking for prices? Studio minimum, hourly and day rates are all on our dedicated pricing page.
Explore the studio in 360°.
Open full tour in Google Maps →Step inside London's Glitch before your appointment. Explore the studio, the open-plan tattoo floor and the space beneath the Southwark railway arches.
How the arch became Glitch.
Every photograph on this page was taken in our own arch in Southwark — from the empty shell we were handed to the studio you walk into now.
An empty shell under the railway.
Clara and Roy spent more than a year looking for the right space before they found the arch. Finding it mattered that much because they were designing not only for the tiny team they had at the beginning, but for the artists they hoped would join in the future.
What they took on was roughly 2,500 square feet of nothing: bare walls, a raw floor, a roller shutter and the curve of the brickwork overhead. That was exactly the point — an empty shell meant they could design every part of it from scratch.
Six months, mostly their own hands.
Clara had worked in many different tattoo studios and found it hard to find one that was genuinely comfortable for both artists and clients. That experience shaped what they set out to build: a studio that works and feels better on both sides of the chair.
The renovation took around six months. Clara and Roy personally did a significant amount of the physical work — they had help at times, but the floors and the walls were done with their own hands, and they led the design and aesthetic direction from idea through to execution.
Wall panels, the electrical system, the lighting rig, speaker mounts, the ring lights on their articulated arms and the shell of the private room all went in one decision at a time, measured against how a real tattoo day actually runs.
The floor goes black and it starts to look like a studio.
London's Glitch opened with one artist and one apprentice. Building the team was the hard part, and the principle never moved: quality over quantity.
Then the space started answering back. The dark floor went down, the first stations arrived, the lounge took its corner, the private station was closed in, and the signage came out of its boxes. Plants, lighting and atmosphere were the last layer — all of it intentional, shaped around long appointments, several artists working at once, stencil conversations, breaks, privacy and photography.
The arch, as it is now.
The finished space balances the social energy of an open studio with enough structure to stay calm: an open-plan floor of full stations under the curve of the arch, a lounge to actually settle into, greenery, coffee, and a dedicated private station for clients who want a quieter or more discreet setup.
It is the studio Clara and Roy described to each other before they had the keys — and it is still the reason artists want to work here.
Come and see it.
Book a consultation, or meet the artists working in the arch.