Manu Farrarons

Born in 1967 in Cholet (France), of a painter mother and tattoo artist father, he spent his childhood in Tahiti and was immersed in Polynesian life and culture.

[1] Even during his time as a school teacher, he increased his knowledge of Polynesian designs by researching them in Tahiti and Hawaii, where he had access to anthropological archives stored at Bishop Museum of Honolulu.

[2] Manu has been tattooing professionally since 1991, after he left his job as a school teacher in order to fulfill his passion.

His father opened the first professional tattoo shop in Tahiti, which he owned until he passed it down to Manu.

In the Tahitian language the word "Mana’o" means "idea, knowledge or thought".