Keep the ride going: Penang artists hold exhibition to benefit trishaw peddlers

A close-up of Farida Evans' oil painting 'Armenian Street Trishaws', which was one of the MCO-era artworks that led to the charity art exhibit to help trishaw riders in Penang. - Photos: Handout

In Penang, a mental picture of a trishaw peddler is easy to conjure up.

Depicted in a popular street art mural on Penang Road – one of the largest in the state – and more recently, on a 10m-tall art installation near Prangin Mall as part of the Penang International Container Festival, trishaws and their riders are hardly an unfamiliar sight - either in art or in person.