Fast becoming a city of murals
GEORGE TOWN is fast becoming a city of murals as 13 more paintings are being drawn on a 50.3m stretch of wall along Magazine Road in the city.
The series of murals will, among others, depict what Penang looked like in the olden days and impressions of the state’s future.
Art teacher Jim Oo Chun Hee, 26, who is among those who initiated the mural project as an effort to exhibit the art of Penang, said the project began in June last year and was expected to be fully completed in a year.
He said he had gotten permission from the Penang Municipal Council to paint on the wall as the premises inside belonged to the council which uses it as a recycling centre.
He said the project has been dubbed the ‘Great Wall in Penang’.
“This project is done voluntarily. We have help from friends and art students. It is a place for us to paint and relax.
“The wall here used to be dirty, cracked and bare. We fixed it up, painted it all white and now there will be paintings of Penang for all to see.
“I am from Butterworth and I will come to paint here during weekdays. When the paintings are all done, we will add 3D features to all of them,” Oo said on Thursday.
Equator Academy of Art student Seow Kar Liang, 20, who was painting part of the mural, said he wanted to help out as art was his passion.
“It is also a project which makes Penang art alive,” he said, adding that he got to know of the project through friends.
The first three paintings which are expected to be finished in two weeks depict activities at the Goddess of Mercy Temple in Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling. Work on the other paintings are in progress.
Besides the murals in Magazine Road, Oo also has mural and 3D art projects at the Penang Botanic Gardens, Armenian Street and a narrow back lane between Bank Negara Malaysia and the AIA building in Bishop Street.
The 3D feature at the gardens is that of a cobra while at Armenian Street, it is an image of the head of the lion used in the Chinese lion dance. The one at the back lane is an image of Tan Tong Tong, a minstrel who was popular in the past. Oo said only the lion head mural was still incomplete.
Other murals which have been painted in the city included those by Lithuanian street artist Ernest Zacharevic, 26, and local artist Louis Gan Yee Loong, 25, from Balik Pulau.
Three artists are also currently creating twelve 3D street art murals in the city in conjunction with the George Town Festival 2013 which will be held from June 7 to July 7. Cats are the main subject matter of the 3D paintings which the artists hope will inspire the public to stop animal cruelty.
~News courtesy of The Star~
GEORGE TOWN is fast becoming a city of murals as 13 more paintings are being drawn on a 50.3m stretch of wall along Magazine Road in the city.
The series of murals will, among others, depict what Penang looked like in the olden days and impressions of the state’s future.
Art teacher Jim Oo Chun Hee, 26, who is among those who initiated the mural project as an effort to exhibit the art of Penang, said the project began in June last year and was expected to be fully completed in a year.
He said he had gotten permission from the Penang Municipal Council to paint on the wall as the premises inside belonged to the council which uses it as a recycling centre.
He said the project has been dubbed the ‘Great Wall in Penang’.
“This project is done voluntarily. We have help from friends and art students. It is a place for us to paint and relax.
“The wall here used to be dirty, cracked and bare. We fixed it up, painted it all white and now there will be paintings of Penang for all to see.
“I am from Butterworth and I will come to paint here during weekdays. When the paintings are all done, we will add 3D features to all of them,” Oo said on Thursday.
Equator Academy of Art student Seow Kar Liang, 20, who was painting part of the mural, said he wanted to help out as art was his passion.
“It is also a project which makes Penang art alive,” he said, adding that he got to know of the project through friends.
The first three paintings which are expected to be finished in two weeks depict activities at the Goddess of Mercy Temple in Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling. Work on the other paintings are in progress.
Besides the murals in Magazine Road, Oo also has mural and 3D art projects at the Penang Botanic Gardens, Armenian Street and a narrow back lane between Bank Negara Malaysia and the AIA building in Bishop Street.
The 3D feature at the gardens is that of a cobra while at Armenian Street, it is an image of the head of the lion used in the Chinese lion dance. The one at the back lane is an image of Tan Tong Tong, a minstrel who was popular in the past. Oo said only the lion head mural was still incomplete.
Other murals which have been painted in the city included those by Lithuanian street artist Ernest Zacharevic, 26, and local artist Louis Gan Yee Loong, 25, from Balik Pulau.
Three artists are also currently creating twelve 3D street art murals in the city in conjunction with the George Town Festival 2013 which will be held from June 7 to July 7. Cats are the main subject matter of the 3D paintings which the artists hope will inspire the public to stop animal cruelty.
~News courtesy of The Star~
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