He has studied at Camberwell School of Art, London and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam and has lived in Amsterdam for almost a decade.
Scally boys, dressed in Burberry, Nike and Adidas are Haines’ main protagonists in his work. He creates compositions based on images from mass media, social networking sites and obscure Internet memes, he makes photographs and then drawings based on this information.