In season by Jessica Gurnsey
Fruit is one of the most beautiful things we routinely ignore. A mango might travel thousands of kilometres before arriving in a kitchen. A cherry is the product of an entire growing season. A persimmon spends months developing its colour and sweetness. Yet, despite the extraordinary journey behind each piece of fruit, many ultimately end up forgotten in a bowl on your kitchen counter. The fruit softens, a bruise appears, the skin wrinkles, and eventually it is thrown away.
We live in a culture of abundance, surrounded by objects so readily available that we stop seeing them. In paint, the fruits’ brief existence is extended indefinitely.
If something as ordinary and temporary as a piece of fruit can contain such beauty and character, what else in our daily lives are we overlooking?
Square (400mmx400mm)
Limited edition (Edition of 30)
Hand-signed and numbered
310gsm Hahnemuhle German Etching (acid-free and archival quality paper)
Folly Journal feature
Fruit Ninja was recently featured in issue 3 of Emily Mareke Broadmore’s Folly Journal. Folly is an international award winning indie literary journal. The piece of writing it shared a page with was apparently a little too spicy for Whitcoulls, and the entire issue was pulled from shelves.
So technically, Fruit Ninja has now been featured in a banned publication… Juicy!
Not exactly the press coverage I was expecting, but I'll take it.
Oh cherry - Craigs aspiring art prize
‘Oh Cherry!’ featured in the 2025 Craigs aspiring art prize as a finalist. It was then printed onto their yearly calendar.
Oh Cherry suggests that there is quiet beauty to be found in life’s simplest moments - the sweet, familiar pleasure of reaching for glossy red cherries on a summer’s day at the beach.
They arrive for such a short time. You blink and the season is gone, the branches bare again, the brief permission to eat them revoked until next year.
AWARD FINALIST
“The detail is so insanely good and the colours are absolutely stunning in person!! I cannot wait to get it framed and up on the wall.”
- Caitlin, 2026.