Zulkifli Yusoff continues to mine Malaysian Malay history and culture to set off debate and interpretations to past events, beliefs or folklores, and in this, he treaded on a violent episode where the British Resident of Perak, J.W.W. Birch was assassinated in his boat on Nov 2, 1875. Sir Huge Low was appointed in his place. Spun from the book, Malay Sketches (1895), by Sir Frank Swettenham (it was given a new spin by Singaporean playwright cum culture commentator, Alfian Saat, in 2012. Whether the dispute stems from cultural polarities (durian tempoyan and whiskey), or from disagreements over taxation and slavery, Zulkifli’s revisitings elicit comparisons with contemporary life. The work was shown in his Malay Sketches exhibition at Utterly Art in Singapore, while some of the works from the series were also featured in his Icons exhibition at Wei-Ling Gallery in September 2008. Zulkifli, now Associate Professor at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris in Tanjung Malim, catapulted into the art scene when he won the Major Award in the Young Contempories competition in 1988 and 1989 and sealed his dominance when he won the Grand Minister’s Prize in the Salon Malaysia in 1992, apart from the 1st and 3rd Prizes in Sculpture. In 2007, he won the National Academic Award (Visual Art). He was invited for the first Asia-Pacific Triennial in Brisbane in 1993, the Singapore Biennale in 2013 and the Seychelles Biennale in 1992, and featured in the Modernities and Memories: Recent Works from the Islamic World component of the 1997 Venice Biennale. He received his Master’s from the Manchester Polytechnic in Britain in 1991, and the BA (Fine Arts) from the University Mara Institute of Technology in 1989.