Loving Sisters Mural, Muar

Loving Sisters Mural (11 September, 2016)


The Loving Sisters Mural (GPS: 2.04833, 102.57163) is a large wall mural in Muar, Johor. It graces a wall beside Veej Uniforms Concept Store at Jalan Arab, near Bulatan Jalan Bakri. The mural was painted by 28-year-old Russian mural artist Julia Volchkova. Sponsored by Aking Advertising & Signcraft Sdn Bhd, a local advertising agency, the mural measures close to 12 meters tall by 10 meters wide, and was completed in ten days, on 17 July, 2016.

The Loving Sisters mural was painted with two young local girls as the subject. They are 7-year-old Nur Najwa and her 3-year-old sister Nur Najiyah Amani, whom Volchkova met when she was at Dataran Tanjung Emas.

The mural was officiated by Datuk Tee Siew Kiong, the Johor State Executive Committee Member in charge of Tourism, Commerce and Consumerism on 18 July, 2016. That same day it was inscribed in the Malaysia Book of Records as the biggest portrait mural in the country.

Full view of Julia Volchkova's Loving Sisters Mural (11 September, 2016)


Timothy Tye and Goh Chooi Yoke at The Loving Sisters mural (11 September, 2016)

360° View of Loving Sisters Mural on Google Maps Street View

Wall on with The Loving Sisters Mural was painted

Loving Sisters Mural is on the Map of Muar, Johor

Acknowledgement

Thank you to art patron Tan Chor Whye for providing me information on this mural and its details.

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