Nagore Square‘s Nagore Mews, a small area comprising of old empty heritage houses, has now become the canvas for the Urban Xchange International Street Art Festival. Featuring artists from a number of countries, the festival aims to promote the expression of arts in Penang. Organised by a Berlin-based urban arts centre and Hin Bus Depot Art Centre, the festival will have murals painted by international artists as well as local artists at various spots in George Town.
Location of Nagore Mews;
This large and colorful mural at Bawasah Road is part of a series of murals drawn for Urban Xchange Street Art Festival. Organised by a Berlin-based urban arts centre and Hin Bus Depot Art Centre, the festival will have murals painted by international artists from many different countries (as well as local artists) at various spots in George Town.
The location of the mural at Bawasah Road. Bawasah Road is a small road crossing Nagore Road in George Town.
A large mural at Tye Sin Street, George Town featuring a portrait of a girl clad in what appears to be a Penang inspired T-shirt. This mural can be found beside Sum Min Primary School, and can be easily spotted along C.Y. Choy Road.
Secawan ‘n’ Such is one of the latest cafes to join the trendy cafe scene in George Town. The cafe retained most of the interior elements of the old heritage shoplot of which the cafe is housed within. It also features two large art murals on its interior walls, which were painted by Gabriel Marques, a friend of the famous artist Ernest Zacharevic.
For more info, please refer to its Facebook page; https://www.facebook.com/secawanhutton.
A small dragon sculpture found on the old wall of Ah Quee Street.
High rise and luxury apartments erected along the coast of Tanjung Bungah, Penang.
An old back alley at Acheen Street.