This large portrait print of a ‘five foot way’ pasted on a side wall of a building at Armenian Street provides an illusion of a continuous walkway.
Tag: art
Penang Street Art (Queen Street Goldsmith)
A steel rod art sculpture showing a caricature of a traditional Indian goldsmiths who used to set up stalls (by working on a bench) along Queen Street back in the old days.
Penang Street Art (The Dog)
This recent wall painting can be found just opposite the The Cat and the ‘Bruce Lee’ mural at Ah Quee Street.
This art work is done by local artist Kenji Chai.
Penang Street Art (The Lego Stickers)
This is not a painting but rather large paper printouts pasted on the wall of an alley at Ah Quee Street. This Lego mural was originally drawn by Ernest Zacharevic in Johor but due to a controversy surrounding it, the mural was removed by the local authority there. Someone has found a way to replicate the mural here in George Town.
Penang Street Art (3D Trishaw)
3D wall mural near Noordin Mews, a boutique hotel along Noordin Street, George Town.
Green Hall Street: Brew Thirty Two Coffee House
Brew Thirty Two Coffee House is one of two newly established cafes along Green Hall, George Town. It serves its signature mille crepes in addition to main course meals such as all day breakfast, and of course, various types of coffee. It is located at the same row of shophouses with Kaffa Espresso Bar.
Penang Street Art (A Granddaughter’s Whisper)
This recent art mural is painted by a local artist, Simon Tan, is located at the side wall of Pinang’s Art Cafe at Kinta Lane. It depicts an old man laughing over something whispered by presumably his granddaughter.
This art work is located side by side with another existing mural drawn by another local artist named Louis Gan as shown above.
For the murals’ location map, go HERE.
George Town Street View: A Curious Window Art
An interesting window covered by various beautiful tiles at a townhouse located along a small alley between Market Lane and Stewart Lane, George Town.
Penang Street Art (The Temple Ground)
Part of a series of recently painted wall murals by local artists along Magazine Road Ghaut, George Town. This is a 3D wall art which interacts with real world objects such as a shrine and the tree nearby the wall. It basically depicts a temple ground and a person cleaning a shrine’s roof with his two friends who sit under the tree, presumably drawing out the whole scene.
Penang Street Art (Old George Town Scenes)
Part of a series of recently painted wall murals by local artists along Magazine Road Ghaut, George Town. This series of murals depicts scenes from George Town’s past.