Welcome to Cannibal Art. This is where we live, carve, and create from a remote valley on Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.

We’re a small family: Tanguy, Ana, one dog, six cats, and one stubborn horse. Our days are filled with carving, nature, and doing our best to live in a way that feels honest and connected to this place.

Tanguy is Marquesan and was born here on Nuku Hiva. His father was a traditional carver, and he learned the craft directly from him and his cousins. Marquesan culture went through a lot, it was suppressed for many years, and today Tanguy’s work is a way of keeping it alive. Every piece he makes is based in ancestral designs, but shaped by his own vision. Nothing is factory-made. Only real, creative, hard-working hands.

I’m Ana. I grew up in Croatia, studied in the States, worked back home, and then in 2013 decided to do something that made absolutely no sense to most people... I sold my company and hitchhiked from Croatia all the way to French Polynesia. On my second journey across the Pacific, while writing a book about it, I met Tanguy… and my life changed completely.

Cannibal Art grew out of our shared love for this place and its culture. It’s not just about selling art... it’s about telling a story, protecting a heritage, and sharing a way of life that still exists here, far from the modern world.

If you want to know more about how I ended up here, my book What’s Wrong With You? tells the full story. Once you read it, everything you see here will make even more sense.

Thanks for being here and supporting what we do. It means a lot to us.

Ana & Tanguy 🌴