Featured in Revel & Reveal, Advanced Diploma of Visual Art, 2024

Persimmon is an appropriated painting of Edouard Manet’s The Melon. It tackles themes of cultural identity and heritage through replacing the fruit commonly seen in historical paintings with a Persimmon - one of many South East Asian tropical fruits. The choice of fruit was intentional, to subvert historical still life paintings. The colourful and playful border of the painting elaborates on this theme with recurring tropical fruits such as Mangosteen, Durian and Star Fruit. The border appropriates the thick traditional frame that the original painting was presented in at the NGV.