Paul Insect

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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]

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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]

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References

  1. Gleadell, Colin (24 July 2007). "Market news". The Daily Telegraph . London. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
  2. "Art attack". New Statesman . 17 January 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
  3. "P.INSECT". paulinsect.com. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  4. "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)
  5. "Santa's Ghetto -". tristanmanco.com. January 2008. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  6. "Insect". insect.co.uk. Archived from the original on 22 September 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  7. Fisher, Alice (11 May 2008). "How the Tate got streetwise". The Observer . London. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
  8. http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/Graffiti/paul-insect-poison-show.htm.%5B%5D
  9. "Paul Insect | Discography | Discogs". Discogs .
  10. "DJ Shadow: The Outsider » Sleevage » Music, Art, Design". sleevage.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2010.
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