"Cannon Hole" Sculpture, Cannon Street

Cannon Hole Sculpture, Cannon Street, George Town, Penang (8 February 2013)


The "Cannon Hole" Sculpture (GPS: 5.41479, 100.33647) is one of the steel-rod sculptures installed in George Town in 2013. It is fixed on a wall facing Cannon Street. The sculpture is based on caricature by cartoonist Tang Mun Kian. It depicts a trishaw peddlar comically disappearing into a hole in the ground while the passenger looked on in astonishment.

The "Cannon Hole" Sculpture commemorates the Penang Riots of 1867. During the riots, a cannon was fired that made a hole in the area. But unlike the sculpture, popular myth has it that the hole wasn't in the ground, it was on the wall of the minaret of Acheeen Street Mosque. And the said hole is still there today.

The infamous Hole-in-the-Wall on the minaret of Acheen Street Mosque (22 May 2011)

Location map of Cannon Hole Sculpture

List of Steel-Rod Sculptures by Tang Mun Kian, Marking George Town Sculptures and Penang Street Art