Cally-Jo was born on 20 April 1989 in Southampton, the United Kingdom and grew up in Shirley, London.

[citation needed] In 2012 Cally-Jo was offered a job at Love Hate Social Club, London.

[3] In October 2013, Cally-Jo travelled to the Dominican Republic to create a mehendi-style tattoo on Rihanna the singer's hand.

[1] Cally-Jo was a participant in the gallery, The 100 Hands Project,[4] an exhibition presented at the National Maritime Museum in Cornwall, UK.

Kenco Ireland commissioned Cally-Jo to create an original artwork that captured the rich symbolism of tattoos but also touched on the hopeful potential of coffee farming as an alternative to gang life.