At Dan Withey's Flash Tattoo Art Sale exhibition, about 30 artworks will be available to buy ... and also to inscribe on the buyer's skin.
"I'm always amazed that anybody would want to get anything I've done tattooed on them,"Withy told AAP.
"It's quite weird but I'm here for it."
The show is part of the South Australian Living Artists Festival which runs during August, with more than 700 free events and exhibitions involving over 11,000 artists.
Withey's show is being held at Adelaide's Neon Pineapple Tattoo, although there's some irony in the studio featuring the artist's designs.
Withey doesn't have any tattoos himself: the 40-year-old said getting them when he was younger would have been a mistake.
"It would be all metal bands and stuff like that and I don't really like the idea of having Metallica tattooed on my forehead," he said.
Ahead of the exhibition opening, the Adelaide artist was prepared to have a template applied to his skin but who knows if he will take the next step?
Tattoo artist Tom Green went to university with Withey and opened Neon Pineapple about two years ago.
The former graphic designer says while the exhibition promotes a specific local artist, it's otherwise not so different to getting a regular tattoo.
"It's just a different collaborative process ... a great opportunity to blend two different worlds that don't necessarily cross over all that often," he told AAP while getting a tattoo stencil applied to the back of one leg.
The studio inks an estimated 200 people each year, although Green occasionally turns down jobs, such as the aged care worker who wanted a tattoo on his neck.
One of the strangest requests he's carried out was from a woman who wanted an invented code resembling zodiac signs tattooed in flesh coloured ink, so it was invisible.
Tattooists need to be good at drawing and inking techniques, follow hygiene standards and be good at customer service, said Green.
"You're working directly on the client, you have to manage their pain, their enjoyment of their experience, you have to be creating design that flows and works with their body," he said.
For art enthusiasts not prepared to sacrifice a patch of their epidermis, Withey will also have ceramic works on show at the studio.
His art can also be found at Art Images Gallery and Segwood Galleries in Adelaide, while another of his exhibitions, Finite Bounty, is touring regional South Australia from September.
SALA starts Saturday and runs throughout August. Flash Tattoo Art Sale runs August 7 till September 13.
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