Education
- Elementary school Havøysund 1970-79
- Den Samiske Folkehøgskole 1981-82
- - Wood, horn and bonecrafting.
- Kunstskolen i Kabelvåg 1987-89
- - Basic course in arts, painting, ceramic, graphics, sculpture, fabric printing.
- - 2nd year specialization; fabrics and fabrics printing.
- Nordland Videoverksted 1989-91
- - Basic course in film, video, sound, lights and editing.
- - 2nd year specialization; animation and internship.
Work
- Havøysund Hotell 1982-83
- Position: Kitchen assistant
- Description: Kitchen assistant
- Folketannrøkta 1983
- Position: Dental assistant
- Description: Training in hygiene (disinfecting equipment), first aid and contagion.
- Fiskefabrikker i Havøysund 1983-87
- Position: Miscellaneous
- Description: Different types of work with fish and shrimp, and cleaning.
- Art-Ink 1991-present
- Position: Self-employed
- Description:Artist
- - Wallpaintings at Havøysund youth club, spring 1987.
- - Decorating different spots while beeing a "beachbum" on Korfu, summer 1987.
- - Directing and animating vignettes for Sami children's tv, 1990.
- - Animation in the film "Lisa gikk til skolen", directed by Karoline Frogner.
- - Prepared animated characters for the movie "Instrumentland" with
Ronni Tekrø, directed by P.A.N.G.
- - Has exhibited paintings at cafe Tamara, Høstutstillingen and
Kampen verksted, Oslo.
- - Storyboard and animation for the movie "Kyss Katta!", directed by Kine Aune.
(It got Terje Vigen award)
- - Musicvideo for The Jungle Medics, shown on NRK's U.
- - Album cover for the band Speed of Sound.
- - Make-up and costumes for the band Farout Fishing's musicvideo.
- - Vice chairman and artistic director of the first public celebration of the
Sami National Day in Oslo.
- Art-Ink Tattoo 1991-present
- Position: Self-employed
- Description:Tattoo artist
- - Mainly autodidact but received basic training the first years of Bjorn Reisanen.
- - Worked at different studioes both before and after I started my own.
- - Was first in Norway to put the profession Tattoo artist on the list of Labor, in 1996.
- - Started Art-Ink Tattoo, Finnmark's first tattoo studio in Hammerfest, June 1999.
- - Part time tattoo artist at Lucky 7 Oslo 2009.
- - Establishing a tattoo shop, tattoo and piercing courses at Skin Rock Tattoo og Piercing Steinkjer 2009-2010
- - Started Art-Ink Tattoo and gallery in Oslo, October 2010.
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