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.
Steel rod sculpture at a second level wall of a shop at Kimberley Street, George Town.
The art depicts a day in an old coffee stall.
This steel rod sculpture located at a building at Acheen Street, depicts a rope being tied to the window presumably by someone trying to escape from the building. The building was used to be a prison before it was later converted to a warehouse.
Steel rod wall sculpture found at Market Lane, George Town. The sculpture is installed at the front entrance wall of an old toddy shop. Toddy is an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm tree such as the palmyra, date palms and coconut palms. It is popular among the Indian community here and even to some Chinese.
The sculpture depicts a person climbing up a palm tree, presumably to harvest the sap of the tree for making toddy.
Steel rod wall sculpture located at Prangin Lane, George Town, describing the neighborhood as a place for petty trading and activities such as drying of salted fish and basket weaving.
A wall art mural depicting two children playing basketball located just at the back of the old Kwong Wah Yit Poh building. The building is located along Chulia Street Ghaut and this mural was also done by local artist Louis Gan, the same local artist who painted the other mural across the street, Children on the Swing / Step by Step Lane.
For the art’s location, please click HERE for the map.
Painted by Ernest Zacharevic at the old walls along Ah Quee Street.
Spotted this wall mural at one of a building along Acheh Street, George Town.
Also known locally as Coffin Street due to a number of Chinese coffin maker shops along the street, Carnarvon Street is located right at the heritage zone of George Town. The wall caricature depicts a paper effigy maker trying to create a paper car which would later be burned for the those in the other world, according to Chinese belief.
