Paul Insect

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]

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  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.[clarification needed]
  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.