The Umpteenth Post About Penang Street Art

Malaysia / street art /

I’ll keep this post short because many fellow bloggers have already written about Penang street art. However, every visitor will have a different experience. Few will see the works in the same order or interact with them in the same way. It’s also unlikely that one will see everything – even though there are paper and Google maps, these are not exhaustive. I have added a couple of them at the end of this post anyway.

For now, you can follow me and see the sights around George Town through my eyes. I learnt that it was more fun to capture the environs and not just the artwork alone.

Ernest Zacharevic Penang — All the people waiting to take a photo with it – at least it’s not as bad as the Mona Lisa

Julia Volchkova painted this massive boatman just off Stewart Lane

Stewart Lane — I couldn’t find this on my map

George Town Armenian Street — You’ll find these three as you walk down Lebuh Armenian

I Want Bao — You shouldn’t miss the egg tarts and salted egg pastries at Min Xiang Tai, which is located next to this piece.

Elephant tap — This one’s a little more subtle and near a fading depiction of Bruce Lee.

Ernest Zacharevic — Most people saw these two as separate works but I imagine they were meant to be complementary.

Penang Malaysia — Most of them also ignored the other mural behind them.

Waiting for folks to buy drinks and coconut ice-cream at the Busy Bodhi, which is next to the boy on the chair.

Here are the maps that I promised. I found them by searching for ‘Penang street art Google map’, and I most certainly didn’t create them. This one is pretty comprehensive:

Even then it doesn’t cover everything. This one focuses on Zacharevic’s work, including those outside George Town:

Click or tap on the maps to expand and save them. I’m sure you’ll be satisfied no matter which route you take.

Wanna see more street art? Check out my funny travel photos

4 Comments

Alvin Park
25/07/2016 @ 4:30 PM

This is very beautiful. I have no words to describe the beauti of these arts. Hats off to the artist.
Sher
28/07/2016 @ 10:55 AM

Recently went to Georgetown, and I felt that a lot of the more interesting murals weren’t on the map. And most other tourists didn’t even bother taking photos with the non-listed ones only actively following their maps, what a waste!
- Nicholas
  29/07/2016 @ 4:55 PM
  
  Thanks for your comment! Tell me more about those “unrecognised” works. The best way to make folks aware about them is to talk about them.
Nick
08/11/2018 @ 1:54 AM

Good post about Penang’s street art…I spent several days and really enjoyed my time there. Excellent food too, there’s a lot to choose from but my personal favorites were the Indian restaurants. There are definitely quite a few murals and street art installations not on any of the maps…and I think that’s probably a nice thing. Keeps all the crowds clustered around the main ones, and makes you work a little bit to find the less famous spots.