Tattoo design competition

Competition closes on 25 June 2010.

Tattoos: Enter this 'design a tattoo' competition and get your art inked on a beautiful stranger's body as a prize - along with £100 spending money and a free tattoo by a top London tattoo artist!

The Wellcome Collection are running an exciting tattoo competition in association with Don't Panic. The winning design will be tattooed live onto our volunteer, Caisa Ederyd (pictured right) at the exhibition.

Don't Panic are looking for a design to celebrate the Wellcome Collection's 'Skin' exhibition, a show that invites the viewer to re-evaluate the largest and probably most overlooked human organ (the clue's in the name: Skin). They're fascinated by the ideo of peeling back the layers of skin to discover what's beneath. Let your imagination run wild with the anatomical workings of your body. Organs, dissections, skeletons, guts, nerves bundles, veins - get your thinking caps on to illustrate what's beneath our skin and display the internal on the external.

In her own words, Caisa advises: "I'd like it to have something to do with body organs such as hearts, lungs, guts and blood. This is because I think the inside of the body is interesting, beautiful and, sadly, because my dad died from a heart condition a few years ago."

As well as the pride of knowing your design is tattooed on a stranger's body, the winner will also get a free tattoo by a top London Tattoo artist, their artwork on artwork on 60K posters, and win a year’s free membership of the Wellcome Collection Club.

To submit your entry, visit the Wellcome Tattoo Design Competition and find out more.

Competition closes on 25 June 2010.