Fawwaz Sukri’s brightly colored canvases are filled with pop influenced characters that generate an emotional resonance with the audience. His work contains elements of humour and fantasy that reveals the observations from his daily surroundings. Life Is Hard depicts several individuals featuring youths and iconic cartoon characters including Homer Simpson gobbling the doughnut and Brian Griffin waiting in a graffiti covered bus stop. Graffiti presents a space for the masses to communicate inner thoughts in a direct manner that would have otherwise been difficult to express in words. The process of learning throughout the journey of life will lead the way towards new directions. Life is hard, but we will have to move on with hope and faith. Fawwaz Sukri had his first solo at the Pace Gallery, now called Nadine Fine Art, in 2014. It was called Saturday Matinee, and he followed up with a two-man show called Narration with Indonesia’s Bambang Toko in 2016. He graduated with a BFA, majoring in Painting, from Universiti ITM in 2010, after his diploma at UiTM Lendu, Malacca (2008), both times winning the Vice-Chancellor’s Award. He was represented in Art Expo Malaysia in 2014 and 2017, besides Art Kaohsiung (Taiwan) in 2016 and 2017. His second solo exhibition Life is Wonderful was held at Nadine Fine Art in 2019.