Ernest Zacharevic

These murals now stand as cultural landmarks in George Town, complete with plaques and frequent queues of people waiting to have their photographs taken with the works.

In 2013 Zacharevic received viral attention for his on-street work with his controversial Lego mural in Johor Bahru, home to a Malaysian Legoland.

Since 2016 Zacharevic has directed focus to the initiation of the Splash and Burn Project, an artist-led artivism campaign which used street art to communicate issues concerning the unsustainable production of Palm oil in South East Asia.

This on-street project was showcased for the first time in 2016 at the Long Beach Museum of Art; Cooper’s original images were paired with the photographs of Zacharevic’s recreations.

The aim is to provide an alternative platform for organisations and NGOs fighting to initiate positive change by embracing the presence of the street art community, inviting international artists to create murals/sculptures and interventions in and around the urban landscape of Medan, Indonesia.

The latest project was realised in 2019 by Spanish artist ESCIF, which involved a rewind symbol carved into a palm oil plantation in Indonesia to be rewilded with trees indigenous to the surrounding rainforests.

In collaboration with Indonesian musician Nursalim Yadi Anugerah, REWILD was accompanied by a short film produced by Studio Birthplace currently on the festival circuit.

[13] On 25 November 2024, it was reported that Zacharevic was seeking an explanation from Tony Fernandes, the founder of AirAsia, following a spotting of one of the artist's creative murals, Children on Bicycle being depicted on the livery of one of the airline's planes at the Penang International Airport.