Burning Candy “A Fistful of Paint” Exhibition at Tony’s

I visited this the other day, and as a fan of both street art and graffiti I felt overwhelmingly proud to come from East London, a place which this crew of artists have derived from. For anyone living in East London they will have certainly at least a couple of their graffiti about. Burning Candy being one of the most prolific and influential groups to make street art. Having come from London and many of those in the crew having been to art college, it pleases me that artists such as themselves are universally recognised with them even having been in the Saatchi Gallery.
As all Burning Candy works are, they were beautifully done with different pieces of art work including collages, miniature sets of their works done to buildings and my favourite piece which was a painting of a city landscape beautifully done with a train passing through underneath with each of their tags on it; Sweetoof, Gold Peg, Hiboux, Tek 33. The gallery in which itself was being shot in as seen in the video which was shot for the exhibition was the apparently “aftermath of a Western style showdown” using fire extinguishers filled with paint to splatter the inside of the building with different colours and is followed by an accompanying video on YouTube. It was an explosion of beautifully done work and vibrant colours. I’d recommend to all of you who enjoy any sort of Street Art and live in London, as it is a substantially small exhibition it would only take ten minutes if your time. However it closes really soon on the 21st August!