Studied Fashion & Textile design at the KASK Royal School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium. A few years into the course discovered that creating characters and stories in a setting was more of interest than actually creating clothes.

Dropping out of school continued the creation of an own cartoon- ish world of illustrations that eventually led to the field of fine arts. Since a young age has been influenced by fashion, art, nightlife and pop culture. People like Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Klaus Nomi, Judy Blame have influenced the work greatly... till today.

Next to exhibiting personal artwork in galleries also worked freelance on various projects and has been assistant curator at the Center for Young Arts.

After working under the moniker of Piepke for about 20 years it was decided to

eliminate the persona and work in the form of the label/ title Kiss My Tribe.