Ha Bik-chuen is best known as a Hong Kong based painter and sculptor but it is his meticulous and idiosyncratic personal archives that have recently captured the interest of Hong Kong’s art lovers. From the 1960s, Ha was an avid visitor to art exhibitions in Hong Kong and remained an engaged art lover until his death.

He was hardly a passive spectator; Ha would photograph each exhibition he attended and collect programmes, artist portraits and magazine stories about the artist and exhibitions. From these he would create intricate and informative collage books which he kept carefully catalogued using a system of his own making.