New Tattoos - August 2026 - Bram Adey, WInnipeg, Manitoba

Hi, welcome to the blog, my name is Bram Adey, and I've been tattooing in Winnipeg for sixteen years.  I make traditionally inspired black and grey tattoos.  My work is often nature inspired, and specifically focused on the main species of flora and fauna of the area of Manitoba between the turtle mountains and the Winnipeg river.  

You can find me at:

Ritual Winnipeg tattoo studio

420 - 70 Arthur street

Winnipeg, Manitoba

R3B 1G7

E-mail me at:

bram_adey@hotmail.com

 for Winnipeg tattoo bookings and consultations.

Prairie Sage

Cedar

Wild Rose

Finger Ornaments - Stick and Poke

Peony

Yellow Lady's Slipper

Jack Pine - After Tom Thompson

Pileated Woodpecker

Skull and Chokecherries

Bleeding Hearts

Two Lives Entwined - After Kotch (1953)

Flower/Sunset - Stick and Poke

Thanks a lot for checking out the tattoos, If you'd like to come get tattooed, or if you'd like to book a consultation to explore your tattoo ideas together, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com to get the ball rolling. 

Much of the work you see me post here or on my instagram comes from or is inspired by my in-progress flash collection "Our Wild World".  Here are a few available designs I've been working on the last little while.

Barn Swallows

Butterflies

Red Admiral

White Admiral

Tiger Swallowtail

In Addition to Our Wild World, I've also been actively working on my collection of iconographic stick and poke designs "Signs and Symbols", and I'm currently working on some celestially inspored additions to the collection.

You can find me at my studio, Ritual Winnipeg, from Tuesday to Friday, 10am-6pm.  I share the space with four other artists:

Alyssa May makes eclectic, nerdy tattoos in a variety of styles.

Lady Myes who makes tasteful western traditional tattoos both fine and bold.

Darny who makes fineline, microrealistic and gothic inspired black and grey tattoos

and

Abrielle, who makes both western and eastern inspired stick and poke tattoos.

Here are a few fun photos from around the studio.

On the First Friday of every month, you can stop by the studio from 5-9 for an open-studio and walk-in tattooing.  You can meet the artists and peruse our portfolios, as well as getting to see the space and suss out the vibe.  

Some tattoo flash portfolios on display for First-Fridays.

Thanks a lot for looking, here are a few nature photos and random bits from life for you!

Milkweed

Painted turtles

Viceroy

Sparrow among the Mugwort

Stinging Nettle

Moth on Cornflower

September 2025 - Tattoos, Fall coming on, Downtown and the West-End

 

Hi, welcome to the blog.  This post starts out with some of my favourite tattoos from the last few weeks, followed by some photos around home and the studio, then ends off with some street photography from around my neighbourhood and Downtown Winnipeg.

I tattoo at Ritual Winnipeg tattoo studio in Winnipeg's Exchange District, and you can find me there Tuesday-Friday, 10-6pm.  The Studio is at 70 Arthur Street, Unit 420. 

www.ritualwinnipeg.com

Email me any time at bram_adey@hotmail.com for Winnipeg tattoo inquiries or bookings.

Snake and peonies - Healed

Wild Roses - Chosen from my book of available designs

Red-Winged Blackbird - Healed

Dualed Cube and Octahedron - Earth and Air

Sandpiper - Custom

Script tattoo - For the new parent ; )

Serpent and Thrushes - Chosen from my book of available designs

Finger Ornaments - Stick and Poke tattoo - Healed

Wild Rose Inspired Ornamental Stomach tattoo.

As you might be able to tell, I make black and grey tattoos (black and white tattoos), mostly local Flora and Fauna based, but I am relatively eclectic in the type of imagery I like to explore, and do a good mix of custom and pre-made designs, large or small.

Stop by the studio Tuesday-Friday if you'd like to check out my Flash designs Available to be tattooed.

If you're looking for colour tattoos, or something a little different stylistically, check out all my wonderful coworkers on the Ritual website:

www.ritualwinnipeg.com

Stop by the studio Tuesday-Friday if you'd like to check out my Flash designs Available to be tattooed.

Hi!

"To write by hand is to follow a sort of bodily thinking... Among the things that that bodily thinking includes... We are not able to delete the archive of our thinking.  All of the ways that we arrive at thoughts when we're writing by hand... there's a map of how we've arrived.

-Ross Grey

Poet (from CBC's Ideas)

I tattoo at Ritual Winnipeg tattoo studio in Winnipeg's Exchange District, and you can find me there Tuesday-Friday, 10-6pm.  The Studio is at 70 Arthur Street, Unit 420. 

Working on A sandwich board.

We now have a book lending library at the studio.  It is intended to be full of book we (the artists at the studio) and our clients have read and loved, and serve as a little opportunity to share the art we love and start conversations about the stories we read.  Stop by the studio if you've got books youre done with and would like to maybe pick up a new one.

My Apprentice Myes hard at work.

My Coworker Dox, doing what they do best.

Thanks for checking out the tattoo content, If you're interested in some street photos from around my neighbourhoods, keep right on, it's nothing too special, just views I think are beautiful or interesting...

My west-end photo walk caompanion.

Well, thanks again for checking out the blog, all the best!

-Bram