A wall steel rod caricature depicting how Chulia Street is now also known as the Backpackers’ Main Street due to the number of budget hotels sprouting along the street with the influx of tourists into the island in recent times.
Category: Street Art
Penang Street Art (Dual Role)
A steel rod caricature installed along Chulia Street Ghaut and right across the central fire station at Beach Street. It depicts the dual role performed by policemen in the early 1900s who were also called to put out fires.
Penang Street Art (Drive Less Cycle More)
Penang Street Art (Muntri Street Traders)
Penang Street Art (Cintra Street)
Steel rod art sculpture spotted along Cintra Street.
Penang Street Art (Catching a Burglar)
A steel rod sculpture found at a wall belonging to one of the many retail shops at Campbell Street.
Penang Street Art (A Boy Reaching Up)
A popular art mural by Ernest Zacharevic which can be found at the historical Cannon Street, George Town.
For the art’s location, please click HERE for the map.
Penang Street Art (Chowrasta Market)
A steel rod wall sculpture in Chowrasta Market depicting how convicts from the old British empire who were brought in to Penang as laborers. Those who managed to regain their freedom later became small traders and eventually formed up the Chowrasta Market.
Penang Street Art (High Heels)
A wall caricature made of steel rods depicting how pawnshops in the old days generally have elevated counters as a mean of protection.
Penang Street Art (of Chasing Cow and Fish)
A steel rod caricature located at Malay Street, George Town depicting the activities of the locals of Fish Lane and Malay Street during the old times. The area once housed a Malay village where cows were usually slaughtered by meat sellers while on the other side at Fish Lane (a small street intersecting with Malay Street), local fishermen can be seen making and selling salted fish. The area was once nearby the sea before the land exclamation of Beach Street coastal area.
