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“Young, rising and collectable
art star Sweet Toof comes from a position in the art world which
blurs the boundaries between street art and graffiti and has
some very important things to say through his work. Royal Academy
Schools furnished Sweet Toof with the fine art skills which
suffuse the current studio work whilst a career as a street
artist has imbued his output with a sense of freedom and irreverence
common to the illegal, politicised and anti-authoritian street
art graffiti genre. Sweet Toof pays homage to the persona and
tools of the graffiti movement in out of context settings such
as art establishment museums.
Sweet Toof has worked through a broad range of media from street
wall and sculpture to modelling and painting, and in this show
his sought after fine art skills as a painter are deployed to
probably their finest effect to date. Sweet Toof with renowned
street artists Cyclops, who has an established career as painter
and auction house favourite, and TEK33, an intuitive old skool
graffiti artist and painter, and collectively they may be responsible
for some of the most endearing street art pieces visible in
the bohemian quarters of many cities throughout the World.
Together with Cyclops and TEK33, Sweet Toof’s energetic
urban art wowed critics and buyers alike in our recent Burning
Candy show. Sweet Toof maintains an almost unique position within
the two worlds of graffiti and street art being lauded and liked
within both realms. Returning to the studio after the graffiti
based ethic of the Burning Candy show, Sweet Toof has reverted
a finer oil on canvas form. The familiar lurid gums with their
comic grins impart a manic deranged relish to the otherwise
mundane. Through those caricature gums, Sweet Toof exploits
and stretches the symbolism inherent in skulls, decaying upper-crust
dandies raffish crooks and villains, painted with a cartoonist
glee.”
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David Stuart
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