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Artist-curator Stephen Menon has done a suit of works on Malaysian icons such as Tan Sri P. Ramlee (1929-1973), Tunku Abdul Rahman (1903-1990) and Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad (b.1925). In his series on Tun Dr. Mahathir, he had done 15, all in different colour schemes. Tun Dr. Mahathir was Malaysia’s longest serving Prime Minister, from 1981 to 2003, and he is now the world’s oldest Prime Minister when he assumed office as the 7th Prime Minister on May 10, 2018. Whereas he previously headed Umno, he now heads Parti Pribumi Bersatu which he founded, and Pakatan Harapan. As 4th Prime Minister, he served under six monarchs, and was instrumental in the Multimedia Super Corridor, National Car Project (Proton), North-South Highway, Petronas Twin Towers, KLIA, and the Formula One Circuit in Sepang. The Tun Dr. Mahathir works were shown in the Wawasan 2020 — The Malaysian Dream exhibition in Singapore in 2012. Stephen Menon graduated with a Diploma in Graphic Design from the Kuala Lumpur College of Art in 1993, after which he was mentored for a time under Amron Omar. He was the Universiti Malaya resident artist and has had five solo exhibitions.