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.
Tag: sculpture
Penang Street Art (Rock Candyman)
Penang Street Art (The Fortune Teller)
This steel rod art sculpture can be found at a wall of a corner building located at the junction of King Street and China Street.
It depicts the Indian fortune tellers in the old days who used a green parakeet to foretell a person’s future.
Penang Street Art (Transfer Road Sidewalk Traders)
Another steel rod sculpture installed at the traffic light junction of Transfer Road and Hutton Lane at George Town.
This sculpture depicts the traders and vendors (mainly from China in the old days) who set up small businesses along the five foot sideway in the area. Some of these small traders would later rise to be among the wealthiest in Penang.
Penang Street Art (Kimberley Street)
A steel rod sculpture at the wall of a building along Kimberley Street, a street famous for Penang local food stalls in George Town.
Penang Street Art (Rope Walk)
A steel rod art sculpture at a wall along Jalan Pintal Tali (Rope Walk), George Town.
Penang Street Art (Five Foot Way)
Steel rod sculptures along Stewart Lane, George Town.
According to the sculptures, the five foot way was said to be the narrowest in the island.
Penang Street Art (Muntri Street)
A steel rod wall caricature located at Muntri Street, George Town. The caricature tells the origin of ‘amah’ who are Cantonese housemaids coming to Penang in the old times to serve as domestic helpers in most wealthy Chinese families.
Penang Street Art (Armenian Street)
One of the many wall sculptured caricatures made of steel rods scattered around in George Town, Penang. This one is at Armenian Street, George Town.
Penang Street Art (Pitt Street)
A wall caricature made of steel rods at one of the buildings along Kapitan Keling Street, formerly known as Pitt Street in the heritage zone of George Town.