“”The first two years I had to work on my own, a baptism by fire, I had a trusted and excellent friend who really believed in me, I would say more than myself, and he allowed me to practice on real skin, his name is Luis, and he ended up with my most bizarre work. For this I will be ever thankful. ” Weshmagul
Category: art
Art Exhibition Review ; Boxed In (one foot at a time) at Hin Bus Depot runs til the 31st of Dec 2020 with Ivan, Curator for Life (Part 1)
This art exhibition review is long overdue. We have just a few days til the exhibition closes, and what a perfect way say goodbye to 2020. Let’s hope 2021 be a little more uplifting, a little less scary, a lot more smiles on faces and a cautious step out of the box, a foot at…
People of Penang : Stuart Every , Producer, CEO Dolphin Creative on All Things Weird and Wonderful
“In a word: humanity. These are individuals who lean into fear. They decide to go into a public space for one reason; to make people happy. If they succeed, then they’ll get rewarded by cash tips, a good artist can make 1,000 USD in 30 minutes!.” Stuart Every , CEO Dolphin Creative
People of Penang : Artist Mandy Maung on Love behind the Covid wall.
Dear Covid, You suck. At this time of writing , I am in Dorset, England. We are one of the lucky ones to have slipped thru the COVID “net” and able to travel for family. Approval did not come easy, we applied and reapplied, called and waited til the ring tone died off, on some…
Art Exhibition Review : “Pe’el” The social culture of our party-hardy parents retold by Artist Kide ( Kid-day) Baharudin – opens 2nd October until 1st November 2020
There is something to be said about our parents, they are TODAY the most pretentious-hypocritical-goody-do-goods A F T E R WE came into the picture. I imagine , from stories told to me; the years between the 60’s (and flowed into the early 70’s), was a frenzied flurry of giddy hormones. It was a happily…
Art Exhibition Review and Q&As : Witnessing the Stillness in Sharon
I was pleased to witness Sharon’s very first solo exhibition. The invite came through text, with several bossy messages later informing me that the private launch was on the 25th September NOT the 24th. We , Penangites, don’t like to read, we’re usually too lazy to scroll to the bottom, the fine print is way…
Where to Eat : At Viva Victoria ‘s Psychedelic Food Garden with Penang Island’s creatives
This is first my attempt at writing since lock down, no…I lie..its since FOREVER. We are, at the moment, enjoying momentary freedom after the Movement Control Order (MCO) was lifted . “Momentary” because, we suspect, with this new found freedom we’ve touched and hugged and breathed already too much of each other. We’re doing ok,…
GIVEAWAY. Birds in your Penang garden illustration
Here is a free print out to keep you busy. Feel free to print it out to help you identify birds in your garden in Penang or Peninsula Malaysia. Stay safe and start bird watching 🐦 P. S the last one is the house crow
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