Georgetown Festival 2024 - Day Off Gallery Visit (Hin Bus, Co-Ex, Fiesta)

Upon completing my volunteer work with the festival, I decided that now was the time I get to be an audience and enjoy it. I decided to purchase tickets to some performances on my off day, and took a bus downtown to enjoy myself. Besides performances, there were also a lot of exhibition and gallery to visit during this festival. So the very first place I went to was Hin Bus Depot. 

There was a local art exhibition on, and I've seen it countless time on Facebook. Finally I have the time to pay it a visit. I love going to Hin Bus Depot. It is just filled with some much energy during the weekend market, and there is always some interesting art exhibition on.

The exhibition during this period was more toward the country Malaysia, the state Penang, and patriotism. 

I love some of the retro art displayed here. From the first prime minister, to our most current one. 

I went quite early, so there wasn't much crowd. And I think it was a Friday, so I guess most people were working? The next place I head to was just behind Hin Bus, a place called Co-Ex. It's also a nice place to hang out. If only the shop owners there were more welcoming....

There was a sketching exhibition on by a solo artist. I've always wanted to take up sketching. But I even though I have a lot of time now, I also happens to have a lot of things to do! Even updating this blog has been taking up a lot of my time even though I enjoy doing them. I have painted a Sunflower 3D painting this year, and was pleasantly surprised at the result of it :) Might take up more artistic pursue in future!

The artist here mainly sketch the places he has visited. I though it's wonderful to capture places you've travelled to in paintings or sketches. I guess that's also one of the reason I took so many photographs on my trip. In my grand plan, I wanted to do something with them, this blog was one of the plan, the other was perhaps a painting or sketching etc.

And I love getting inspiration from all these art event :)

After Co-Ex, I walked to Nordin Road, to a place called Fiesta to see what they have there. The poster was promising, but the exhibition was kinda confusing and disappointing. 

The location was at a restaurant. And although it was opened by 11am or 1130am, I can't really tell whether it really was opened or not. There wasn't much clear indication, and there wasn't anyone there that looked helpful in anyway. There was a lady on the phone, talking about no volunteer showing up for duty, lol. 

I hang around for a while, going into spaces that I thought I could. As I've said, the poster looked promising. 

But the exhibition wasn't. I was expecting more than just one room of art. But apparently, that was all I saw. Maybe there were other part of the venue I didn't know about it. Maybe it wasn't fully opened yet? Who knows. No information any where to assist me. So I left briefing after. I hope not all the gallery was going to be like this one!