Paul Insect is a UK contemporary artist, who is most famous for his 2007 solo show Bullion exhibition at London's Art gallery, Lazarides Gallery.[1] Damien Hirst is reported to be a fan of Insect, having purchased the show days before it opened.[2] Insect, who also goes by the name of PINS,[3] worked alongside artist Banksy at the Cans Festival, the Santa's Ghetto project in Bethlehem, and on the separation wall in Palestine.[clarification needed][4][5]
Insect is well known for his collective named 'insect' which started in 1996, and disbanded in 2005.[6] Insect held an exhibition at a disused sex shop in London's Kings Cross area in 2008 in partnership with Lazarides Gallery.[7] This contained 12 bronze skulls with colour enameled bunny ears.[8]
Insect created the artwork for San Francisco-based hip hop producer DJ Shadow's 2006 The Outsider album.[9][10]
Books edit
- Bullion - Ltd Edition 500 - Published - Lazarides Inc. 2007
- Poison - Ltd Edition 500 - Published - Lazarides Inc. 2008
The Rubbish Puppeteers Bast & Paul Insect - Limited 1000 copies
References edit
- ^ Gleadell, Colin (24 July 2007). "Market news". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
- ^ "Art attack". New Statesman. 17 January 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
- ^ "P.INSECT". paulinsect.com. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
- ^ "Log into Facebook - Facebook". Archived from the original on 31 August 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2015 – via Facebook.
{{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help) - ^ "Santa's Ghetto -". tristanmanco.com. January 2008. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
- ^ "Insect". insect.co.uk. Archived from the original on 22 September 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
- ^ Fisher, Alice (11 May 2008). "How the Tate got streetwise". The Observer. London. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
- ^ http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/Graffiti/paul-insect-poison-show.htm.[clarification needed]
- ^ "Paul Insect | Discography | Discogs". Discogs.
- ^ "DJ Shadow: The Outsider » Sleevage » Music, Art, Design". sleevage.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2010.
External links edit
- http://www.paulinsect.com www.paulinsect.com
- Paul Insect on Flickr
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120304052003/http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/crawling-around-with-paul-insect
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160314164432/https://www.cocurata.com/pages/paul-insect
- @paulinsect
- http://www.allouchegallery.com/
- Insect 2004 - Old news & work
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100422084844/http://www.insect.co.uk/2004/Newsletter.html
- Paul Insect: Poison (Graffoto review)
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