This Friday at Off The Kerb gallery in Collingwood, HA HA will be having yet another solo show! If you know anything about street art in Melbourne, you’ll know that this talented man has been amongst it all for quite some time now, and his stylised and trademark stencils are immediately recognisable. We always love seeing a new show from this man, and this one looks like he is taking his artwork into even more intriguing directions!

“Haha explores the power of mass media within Australian popular culture. The reality TV phenomena, the religion of sport, criminal lifestyles, get rich quick & instant fame becomes the obsessions, the new virtues of the 21st century.

By using multi-layered stencils of up to 40 layers Haha’s work is a reflection of popular culture. He gets his images direct from the newspaper or from photographing the subject to tell a story of the here & now. Without the aid of a computer, his cutting technique produces life like imagery.

Haha is a self taught artist who started off by spray painting stencils on the street & has since then graduated to the gallery. He has been exhibiting for over 8 years and has held solo shows in Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart & Sydney. He is represented by 3 commercial galleries across Australia. His work can be found in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, BHP Billiton, State Library of Victoria, City of Melbourne, Artbank & private collections across Australia, NZ, UK & USA.

The Rise & Fall fuse’s the techniques of stenciling & drawing . It is an exploration into Polynesian & popular culture by means of portraiture highlighted by motif’s common to the ancestral background of Melbourne artist Regan Tamanui better known as street artist HAHA. Rise & Fall examines the natural cycles within & around us, the symbols the unspoken language of the subconscious in a contemporary context from Polynesian symbolism to the emoticons in the age of the internet.”

So head down for the opening this weekend, and check it all out – it’ll be on for a while, so you have plenty of time to see it all!

Who: HA HA
What: Rise & Fall solo exhibition
Where: Off The Kerb gallery, 66B Johnston St, Collingwood
When: Friday September 9th from 6pm til 9pm and the show runs until the 29th September 2016

Check out HA HA on his fb page for more information on his work!