Paul Insect Explained

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.^{[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

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/

Insect 2004 - Old news & work

• https://web.archive.org/web/20100422084844/http://www.insect.co.uk/2004/Newsletter.html
• Paul Insect: Poison (Graffoto review)

Notes and References

1. News: Market news . The Daily Telegraph. 24 July 2007 . 24 December 2008 . London . Colin . Gleadell.
2. News: Art attack . . 17 January 2008 . 24 December 2008 .
3. Web site: P.INSECT. paulinsect.com. 8 September 2015.
4. Web site: Log into Facebook - Facebook. Facebook. 8 September 2015. 31 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210831232456/https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7524771485. dead.
5. Web site: Santa's Ghetto -. tristanmanco.com. January 2008 . 8 September 2015.
6. Web site: Insect. insect.co.uk. 8 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150922074414/http://www.insect.co.uk/. 22 September 2015. dead.
7. News: How the Tate got streetwise . . 11 May 2008 . 24 December 2008 . London . Alice . Fisher.
8. http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/Graffiti/paul-insect-poison-show.htm.{{Clarify|date=May 2010}}
9. Web site: Paul Insect Discography Discogs. Discogs.
10. Web site: DJ Shadow: The Outsider » Sleevage » Music, Art, Design. sleevage.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20100426034116/http://sleevage.com/dj-shadow-the-outsider . 26 April 2010.