Paul Insect

UK contemporary artist

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

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

^ 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

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/