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The 'Get Burning' Matchboxes and sticker packs have been released in conjunction with Burning Candy's exhibition at Leeds College of Art, showing until the 11th of July: </"font-size:16.0pt"></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt; background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Burning Candy <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Leeds College of Art<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p> <p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm; line-height:14.4pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></strong></p> <p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm; line-height:14.4pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Burning Candy </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">are an internationally renowned graffiti crew, known for their unique world of fantastical day-glow, sharp toothed cartoonish creatures invading the streets and appearing in the strangest places from London to Sao Paulo. Following a somewhat relaxed approach to the rules and to art more generally, Burning Candy are beyond dynamic in terms of their individual practice, collaborations, and overall output. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm; line-height:14.4pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Since Burning Candy Crew last exhibited at Leeds College of Art in 2008, they have been named by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Timeout</i> as one of the most influential forces in Street Art and Graffiti. Not sticking to just street and studio work, members of the crew have been involved in Anti-slavery International, various anarchic looking youth projects, and making unclassifiable post new age rituals around the winter and summer solstices. Five years on from their first show at Vernon Street in Leeds, the graffiti collective’s show is curated by partner in (artistic) crime James Jessop. The exhibition will feature new and commissioned work by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Mighty Mo, Rowdy, Gold Peg and Horror</b>, and we expect that it will plunge viewers into their inventive, raw and dynamic wall writing and the fug of aerosol fumes. Through the use of painting, sculpture, installation and film, viewers will have the opportunity to engage with work that, encompasses the energetic and explosive spirit of their outdoor escapades. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm; line-height:14.4pt;background:white"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Rafael Schacter Author of ‘World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti’ describes the crew as follows:</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm; line-height:14.4pt;background:white"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-US">“Burning Candy revolutionised the British Independent Public Art scene when they first emerged in the early 2000s. Putting the fun back into what should always be an innately pleasurable act, taking delight in disobedience and forming entertainment from anarchy, the obvious enjoyment they all took in their work was only matched by the prolificacy, a non-stop, seemingly impossible level of output which they still continue today. They are the court jesters of the contemporary Independent Public Art world, using laughter as a tool of sedition, colour as a refusal of the concrete”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></b></p> <p> <p><style = "font-size:16.0pt"> Photographer Alex Ellison has a great selection of images from the show over on his <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/42276448@N07/sets/72157645416577855/">flickr</a>. </"font-size:16.0pt"></p> <p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm; line-height:14.4pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">The<span class="apple-converted-space"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b>show</span> is the first in a series of bi-annual curated shows at Leeds College of Art and runs from 30 June – 11 July 2014. The opening night features a lecture by Jessop and a live AV performance from Raj Pannu (Ninja Tune) and DJ Mudfootblaps. Find out more about the show and the opening evening over at<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="mso-field-code:&quot; HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.leeds-art\.ac\.uk\/news-events\/events-exhibitions\/2014\/06\/30\/burning-candy\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 \\o \0022Find out more about the Burning Candy Exhibition at Leeds College of Art\0022 &quot;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none">Leeds College of Art</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>