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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by pointblank on Dec 19, 2008 1:43:05 GMT 1, Great stuff,
would like to see pics if anybody else went?
Talented guy!
Great stuff,
would like to see pics if anybody else went?
Talented guy!
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by f5doordienyc on Dec 19, 2008 2:40:57 GMT 1, have a buyers catalog if anyone wants to peek pm me
have a buyers catalog if anyone wants to peek pm me
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by Sacked... on Dec 19, 2008 10:46:24 GMT 1, Come on Toothfairy get those pics up !!
Come on Toothfairy get those pics up !!
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by toothfairy on Dec 19, 2008 18:28:51 GMT 1, Hold on, will be home soon............
Hold on, will be home soon............
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by hick on Dec 19, 2008 18:43:01 GMT 1, what were the prices like??
what were the prices like??
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by toothfairy on Dec 19, 2008 22:43:20 GMT 1, Sorry Hick there was no available price list and I was too scared to ask incase I ended up buying one (already got one Lenny). Here we go:
www.flickr.com/photos/toothfairy1604/sets/72157611424909534/
Will post the photo's for the Martin Lea Brown show a bit later.
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by Sacked... on Dec 19, 2008 23:11:53 GMT 1, They never seem to do price lists at Sartorial.The show looks good though.
They never seem to do price lists at Sartorial.The show looks good though.
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by Prescription Art on Dec 20, 2008 0:19:21 GMT 1, thanks for uploading the photos!!
thanks for uploading the photos!!
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by toothfairy on Dec 20, 2008 0:39:08 GMT 1, No problem, decided to take your advice and set up flickr.
Have to agree with you, definitely the solo show of the year. I can't even fathom how many hours went into the two shows. Sharp Exit is an amazing 200x300cms!!!!
No problem, decided to take your advice and set up flickr. Have to agree with you, definitely the solo show of the year. I can't even fathom how many hours went into the two shows. Sharp Exit is an amazing 200x300cms!!!! |
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by Sacked... on Dec 20, 2008 3:06:03 GMT 1, The only day i cant make and the show of the year happens !
The only day i cant make and the show of the year happens !
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by toothfairy on Jan 10, 2009 19:23:40 GMT 1, Just a reminder. The best solo show of 2008 reopens again on Tuesday (read Prescription Arts review above). ;D
For those of you going to the London Art Fair, its worth popping in. Sartorial is open from 1.30-7pm and only down the road from Islington. If not its on until 4th February 2009.
Promise you won't be disappointed.
Just a reminder. The best solo show of 2008 reopens again on Tuesday (read Prescription Arts review above). ;D
For those of you going to the London Art Fair, its worth popping in. Sartorial is open from 1.30-7pm and only down the road from Islington. If not its on until 4th February 2009.
Promise you won't be disappointed.
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by Sacked... on Jan 10, 2009 19:59:43 GMT 1, Eh up luv !
Eh up luv !
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by skelly on Jan 10, 2009 20:03:53 GMT 1, Sweet toof has skills and a good idea he's working with, I hope his new show is a real success
Sweet toof has skills and a good idea he's working with, I hope his new show is a real success
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by toothfairy on Jan 12, 2009 23:24:17 GMT 1, 14 new limited edition prints and a new book!!!! Think I need to lie down.
sartorialart.com/index.html
Here's what the email said:
Bankers are taking us to hell!
London , UK : Leading street artist Sweet Toof shares his striking acidic vision in a new set of 14 limited edition prints in collaboration with Aida, Olly Beck, Andy Council, Cyclops, Descreet, Gretta, Kate Mackeson, Monkey, Motorboy, Gold Peg, Rowdy, Sickboy, Snoe and Tek33
Come and join us for a Private View with party to drown your sorrows – as we plunge deeper into recession - with a glass of wine at Sartorial Contemporary Art, on Thursday 22 January 2009 , 6:30 to 11.00pm .
Sweet Toof's new book ‘ Fools Gold Sweet Toof' published by Sartorial Contemporary Art (ISBN: 978-09559100-0-6) will also be launched this evening.
Sweet Toof/ Martin Lea Brown's exhibition runs until 4 February 2009 . Tuesday to Saturday 1:30 to 7:00 pm
Contact: Julia Villard +44 (0) 7787936124
SARTORIAL CONTEMPORARY ART
26 Argyle Square, London WC1H 8AP
Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7278 0866
art@sartorialart.com
www.sartorialart .com
14 new limited edition prints and a new book!!!! Think I need to lie down. sartorialart.com/index.htmlHere's what the email said: Bankers are taking us to hell! London , UK : Leading street artist Sweet Toof shares his striking acidic vision in a new set of 14 limited edition prints in collaboration with Aida, Olly Beck, Andy Council, Cyclops, Descreet, Gretta, Kate Mackeson, Monkey, Motorboy, Gold Peg, Rowdy, Sickboy, Snoe and Tek33 Come and join us for a Private View with party to drown your sorrows – as we plunge deeper into recession - with a glass of wine at Sartorial Contemporary Art, on Thursday 22 January 2009 , 6:30 to 11.00pm . Sweet Toof's new book ‘ Fools Gold Sweet Toof' published by Sartorial Contemporary Art (ISBN: 978-09559100-0-6) will also be launched this evening. Sweet Toof/ Martin Lea Brown's exhibition runs until 4 February 2009 . Tuesday to Saturday 1:30 to 7:00 pm Contact: Julia Villard +44 (0) 7787936124 SARTORIAL CONTEMPORARY ART 26 Argyle Square, London WC1H 8AP Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7278 0866 art@sartorialart.com www.sartorialart .com |
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by yapsey on Jan 12, 2009 23:30:09 GMT 1, i look forward to this hugely
i look forward to this hugely
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by cashman on Jan 12, 2009 23:38:49 GMT 1, If anybody's going to the above show, would they please get a book signed for me...
i'll try and compensate for the effort!
If anybody's going to the above show, would they please get a book signed for me...
i'll try and compensate for the effort!
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by stickee on Jan 13, 2009 0:40:02 GMT 1, Damn I will be in town 2 days beforehand but will go and check out the current show for sure
Damn I will be in town 2 days beforehand but will go and check out the current show for sure
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by toothfairy on Jan 14, 2009 1:38:13 GMT 1, Almost missed out on this, but thanks to Sacked I manage to get my copy on the way back from the London Art Fair.
www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/culture/article/1157159009727?packedargs=suffix%3DSubSectionArticle
London arts Interview: 'Sweet Toof'
by Jess Holland. Tuesday, 13 January 2009
AS soon as you notice one, they’re everywhere: bulging salmon-pink gums with white teeth like pegs graffitied on Brick Lane walls, beside Hackney canals, and in other nooks across south and east London.
Sometimes they’re part of a bigger piece several metres long – a collaboration with other artists – sometimes they’re just a few centimetres wide in a tiny corner. They’re the work of a Royal Academy alumnus who is known only as “Sweet Toof”, and the first London exhibition devoted to his art opens today.
When we meet at the Sartorial Contemporary Art gallery for a cup of tea and a look at his “fine art”, he turns out to be a stocky, friendly bloke in his mid-thirties with tufty hair and glasses, wearing an art student-ish uniform of jeans, trainers and a woolly cardigan.
But the personal details are shady: he’s already been locked up once (overnight) for being linked to illegal graffiti and he doesn’t want to repeat the experience. It means that, like Banksy, he has to remain anonymous.
He says he’s from the “north”, although his West Country-like twang suggests otherwise. Google “Sweet Toof” and you’ll see graffiti blogs claiming he’s an alias of Martin Lea Brown, the oil painter running a concurrent exhibition at Sartorial this month. But he refuses to be drawn. “My name’s Sweet Toof,” he insists. “Martin Lea Brown’s a very close friend.”
Whoever he is, he’s been known on the graffiti scene as “Sweet Toof” for a couple of years. Since giving up the simple tagging that he’d been doing from the age of 13, he has been bombarding London’s streets with his instantly recognisable gums-and-teeth logo. How did he come up with that one? “Teeth can be really sexy, or aggressive,” he says, “but they’re also constant reminders of death. They’re how we get identified by police when there’s nothing else left. It sounds morbid but it’s what we all come down to.”
He likes to plaster them on walls beside canals, because he’s got “a bit of a thing” for reflections. He started out as a young teen: “I’d save my 50p lunch money and buy cheap spray cans and go out at night. It was so dark you couldn’t make out what colours you were using, so you’d only see it the next day. I love how spontaneous the thing is.”
The eerie grinning gums are all over Toof’s oil paintings, embedded in the jaws of skeletons wearing Elizabethan ruffs and prison jumpsuits. It’s a macabre show, but sure to be a lucrative one – he admits he can charge five figures for his work, with collectors eager to find the next big thing.
But that doesn’t mean he’s turning his back on his roots. It’s true he’s got an art degree, and an MA from the Royal Academy (enough to upset some fierce anti-establishment graffiti writers), but his heart belongs to night-time adventures with his graffiti crew, Burning Candy.
“I’ve done stuff where I think the next day, ‘That could’ve ended badly’. But it’s like a drug,” he grins. “I always thought I was going to give up before I hit 20, but I’m still at it. I probably need help.”
Sartorial Contemporary Art, to 4 Feb, 26 Argyle Sq, WC1, sartorialart.com
Almost missed out on this, but thanks to Sacked I manage to get my copy on the way back from the London Art Fair. www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/culture/article/1157159009727?packedargs=suffix%3DSubSectionArticleLondon arts Interview: 'Sweet Toof' by Jess Holland. Tuesday, 13 January 2009 AS soon as you notice one, they’re everywhere: bulging salmon-pink gums with white teeth like pegs graffitied on Brick Lane walls, beside Hackney canals, and in other nooks across south and east London. Sometimes they’re part of a bigger piece several metres long – a collaboration with other artists – sometimes they’re just a few centimetres wide in a tiny corner. They’re the work of a Royal Academy alumnus who is known only as “Sweet Toof”, and the first London exhibition devoted to his art opens today. When we meet at the Sartorial Contemporary Art gallery for a cup of tea and a look at his “fine art”, he turns out to be a stocky, friendly bloke in his mid-thirties with tufty hair and glasses, wearing an art student-ish uniform of jeans, trainers and a woolly cardigan. But the personal details are shady: he’s already been locked up once (overnight) for being linked to illegal graffiti and he doesn’t want to repeat the experience. It means that, like Banksy, he has to remain anonymous. He says he’s from the “north”, although his West Country-like twang suggests otherwise. Google “Sweet Toof” and you’ll see graffiti blogs claiming he’s an alias of Martin Lea Brown, the oil painter running a concurrent exhibition at Sartorial this month. But he refuses to be drawn. “My name’s Sweet Toof,” he insists. “Martin Lea Brown’s a very close friend.” Whoever he is, he’s been known on the graffiti scene as “Sweet Toof” for a couple of years. Since giving up the simple tagging that he’d been doing from the age of 13, he has been bombarding London’s streets with his instantly recognisable gums-and-teeth logo. How did he come up with that one? “Teeth can be really sexy, or aggressive,” he says, “but they’re also constant reminders of death. They’re how we get identified by police when there’s nothing else left. It sounds morbid but it’s what we all come down to.” He likes to plaster them on walls beside canals, because he’s got “a bit of a thing” for reflections. He started out as a young teen: “I’d save my 50p lunch money and buy cheap spray cans and go out at night. It was so dark you couldn’t make out what colours you were using, so you’d only see it the next day. I love how spontaneous the thing is.” The eerie grinning gums are all over Toof’s oil paintings, embedded in the jaws of skeletons wearing Elizabethan ruffs and prison jumpsuits. It’s a macabre show, but sure to be a lucrative one – he admits he can charge five figures for his work, with collectors eager to find the next big thing. But that doesn’t mean he’s turning his back on his roots. It’s true he’s got an art degree, and an MA from the Royal Academy (enough to upset some fierce anti-establishment graffiti writers), but his heart belongs to night-time adventures with his graffiti crew, Burning Candy. “I’ve done stuff where I think the next day, ‘That could’ve ended badly’. But it’s like a drug,” he grins. “I always thought I was going to give up before I hit 20, but I’m still at it. I probably need help.” Sartorial Contemporary Art, to 4 Feb, 26 Argyle Sq, WC1, sartorialart.com |
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by Deleted on Jan 14, 2009 1:57:47 GMT 1, i read it and cut it out to put in my scrap book 
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by Sacked... on Jan 14, 2009 2:18:30 GMT 1, If anybody's going to the above show, would they please get a book signed for me... i'll try and compensate for the effort!
Do you still want one ? No details on cost yet though.They still have the Burning Candy book in softback as well,but only signed by Tek33.
If anybody's going to the above show, would they please get a book signed for me... i'll try and compensate for the effort! Do you still want one ? No details on cost yet though.They still have the Burning Candy book in softback as well,but only signed by Tek33. |
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by toothfairy on Jan 14, 2009 22:06:55 GMT 1, i read it and cut it out to put in my scrap book
Your sad! ;D I would probably do the same if I had the time and was more organised.
i read it and cut it out to put in my scrap book Your sad! ;D I would probably do the same if I had the time and was more organised. |
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by toothfairy on Jan 20, 2009 14:53:43 GMT 1, So, who's going Thursday? Anyone seen the prints???
So, who's going Thursday? Anyone seen the prints???
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by Prescription Art on Jan 20, 2009 15:26:15 GMT 1, see you there toothfairy!
see you there toothfairy!
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by Sacked... on Jan 20, 2009 15:36:27 GMT 1, See you both there !
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See you both there !
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by Sacked... on Jan 21, 2009 21:41:45 GMT 1, BUMP for tomorrow night !
BUMP for tomorrow night !
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by romanywg on Jan 21, 2009 23:21:31 GMT 1, Hopefully be there.
Hopefully be there.
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by Prescription Art on Jan 22, 2009 13:01:32 GMT 1, I'm looking forward to taking another look tonight... there's also the new book & 14 new prints..!
I'm looking forward to taking another look tonight... there's also the new book & 14 new prints..!
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Sweet Toof 🇬🇧 London Graffiti Artist • Burning Candy Crew, by hlarmy on Jan 22, 2009 13:03:31 GMT 1, Is the show invite only ce soir?
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