Regan Haha' Tamanui

Pop

Regan Tamanui, also known by his street artist moniker, HAHA, is a Melbourne-based artist who uses stencils to create artworks in a colourful, playful Neo-Pop style. In this series, he makes reference to Maori culture and street art. Neo-Pop is a current postmodern manifestation of the earlier Pop Art period that explored pop culture, advertising, consumerism and commercialism; especially the elevating of seemingly meaningless or everyday objects as subjects of art.

Pop Art is arguably best remembered for Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans that used devices such as repetition, colour and gigantism to re-examine the seemingly ordinary soup can.