Another street mural featuring Dr. Sun Yat Sen sitting on a rickshaw. This art work is painted by Yakuzart Creation, and can be found at one of the walls along a small alley leading to the Grand Swiss Hotel at Chulia Street, George Town.
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Penang Street Art (Mona Lisa having a Wine)
A street mural featuring Mona Lisa having a glass of wine. This art work is painted by Yakuzart Creation, and can be found at one of the walls along a small alley leading to the Grand Swiss Hotel at Chulia Street, George Town.
Butterworth Street Art Alley: The Old Colonial Crest
This emblem is the Coat of Arms of the Straits Settlements, the former group of British territories located in Southeast Asia which included Penang. This art work can be found at the Butterworth Street Art Alley.
Penang Street Art (Ip Man, Wing Chun Master)
This mural depicts Chinese martial artist Ip Man practicing his Wing Chun techniques on a wooden dummy. It can be found at the wall of Ip Man Wing Chun Penang, a Chinese martial arts school in Solok Thaton, Pulau Tikus, Penang.
Ip Man was born in Foshan, Guangdong, China and later resided in Hong Kong. As a master teacher of Wing Chun, some of his students would become well known martial arts masters themselves, such as Wong Shun Leung and Bruce Lee.
Penang Street Art (The Alley Retro Girl)
At one of the small alleys in Ah Quee Street is this recent mural of a retro style girl painted on the back wall of old shophouses in George Town.
Penang Street Art (Old Soy Milk Stall)
A recent art mural painted at an alley behind an old printing warehouse at Chulia Street Ghaut in George Town. This art work is created in collaboration by St. Xavier’s Institution, Homesoy and Vilmedia and depicts an old lady at a soy milk stall serving bowls of soy milk to children. This art work can be found just beside Children on the Swing mural.
Penang Street Art (Brick Kiln Road School Mural)
A collaborative art mural painted on the wall of Sekolah Kebangsaan Tan Sri P. Ramlee, a primary school located at Brick Kiln Road, George Town. This art work is painted by several artists during the Different Strokes Street Art festival in 2015. The school is also located next to the Hin Bus Depot.
Penang Street Art (The White Tiger)
This giant white tiger mural was painted at a small lane between two heritage townhouses at Stewart Lane, George Town. This mural was painted by Japanese artist TWOONE/ Hiroyasu Tsuri.
George Town Street Arts at Night
Armenian Street.
Ah Quee Street.
Cannon Street.
Arguably the three most famous art murals as painted (and repainted again early this year) by Ernest Zacharevic, taken at night in George Town.
For the street arts location, please go here: https://travel2penang.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/penang-street-art-map-part-1/
Penang Street Art (The Rubber Tapper)
Another large art mural drawn by Julia Volchkova in Balik Pulau town, Penang. This wall art depicts a woman doing rubber tapping, a process that collects the latex from a rubber tree through an incision made at the bark of the tree. Rubber trees plantations are common in Malaysia, rubber being of the main exports of the country.
For the mural’s location, refer to this map HERE.