Our story · Orchid Avenue, Surfers Paradise
I started getting tattooed at 18. That's where the standard came from.
Seventeen years under the needle, around the craft and around the artists. I still get tattooed in my own studio.
That time teaches you what a client should feel at every step, and where most of it falls short. Not just the work, but everything around it: the moment the door opens, the conversation before the first line, the care after the last one.
As the owner, I see all of it. My role isn't the machine. It's making sure every part of your time with us meets the level the artists bring to the work.
The craft
The craft comes first.
On Orchid Avenue since 2017, our artists stand on the craft, whatever the idea or the size. Clean small pieces and flash. Custom fine line drawn for the person wearing it. Traditional, mandala and colour that hits harder in real life than on a screen. Back-to-back full days on realism sleeves.
Best Realism · Inked Expo Brisbane 2026
The people
The people make it.
It's a privilege to meet people who trust our studio time and time again, from the Gold Coast and from all over the world. Hearing your story, or just talking life while you sit, is half of why I love this.
Start to finish
My name is on all of it.
You leave knowing the level of the work, the price, and how to look after it, with products I put my own name to. I put my name against everything that leaves this studio.
The level
That's the level.
To everyone who has sat with us: thank you. To those I haven't met yet: I look forward to showing you how a studio should feel.
Come in and see the difference for yourself, whatever the idea, whatever the size.
Benny Aquilina
Owner, Squires Ink
Rated 4.9 from more than 400 Google reviews · Walk-ins 7 days · 7/26 Orchid Avenue, Surfers Paradise