Paul Insect is a UK
contemporary artist
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, who is most famous for his 2007 solo show ''Bullion'' exhibition at London's Art gallery,
Lazarides Gallery Lazarides is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Apo Lazaridès
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.
Damien Hirst
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Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingd ...
is reported to be a fan of Insect, having purchased the show days before it opened.
Insect, who also goes by the name of PINS, worked alongside artist
Banksy
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at the
Cans Festival
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, the
Santa's Ghetto project in
Bethlehem
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, and on the
separation wall in Palestine.
Insect is well known for his
collective
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named 'insect' which started in 1996, and disbanded in 2005. Insect held an exhibition at a disused
sex shop
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An early precursor of the modern sex shop was a chain of stores set up in th ...
in
London's Kings Cross area in 2008 in partnership with Lazarides Gallery. This contained 12 bronze skulls with colour enameled bunny ears.
Insect created the artwork for
San Francisco
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-based hip hop producer
DJ Shadow
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Biography Early years (1989–1995)
DJ Sha ...
's 2006
''The Outsider'' album.
Books
*Bullion - Ltd Edition 500 - Published - Lazarides Inc. 2007
*Poison - Ltd Edition 500 - Published - Lazarides Inc. 2008
References
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
British graffiti artists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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