Paul Insect is UK

United Kingdom

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 street artist

Street artist

A street artist is someone who creates and/or sells their art or craft in public for the pleasure of passers-by.Some people use the term 'street artist' more broadly and also refer to people involved in busking, such as musicians who sing and/or play instruments, acrobats, jugglers, living statues,...

, who is most famous for his 2007 solo show Bullion exhibition at London's Lazarides Gallery.
Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst

Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists , who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist,...

 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 well known artist Banksy

Banksy

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique...

 at the Cans Festival, Santas Ghetto, and on the separation wall in Palestine.

Insect is well known for his collective

Collective

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 named 'insect' which started in 1996, and disbanded in 2005. Insect held an exhibition at a disused Sex shop

Sex shop

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 in London's Kings Cross area

Kings Cross, London

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 in 2008 in partnership with Lazarides Gallery. This contained 12 bronze skulls with colour enameled bunny ears. Dead Playboy Bunnygirls

Santa's Ghetto, Palestine

In 2007 Paul Insect was responsible for hanging the Santa’s Ghetto project in Bethlehem

Bethlehem

Bethlehem is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank of the Jordan River, near Israel and approximately south of Jerusalem, with a population of about 30,000 people. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate of the Palestinian National Authority and a hub of Palestinian culture and tourism...

. Close to 20 artists were invited to take part in the project during the month

Insect's Hip hop collaboration

Paul Insect works with the San Francisco based Hip Hop producer, DJ Shadow creating the artwork for his Outsider Album.

Books

• Insect - designer&design No41. Pyramyd 2005 ISBN 2-35017-01208
• Bullion - Ltd Edition 500 - Published - Lazarides Inc.2007
• Poison - Ltd Edition 500 - Published - Lazarides Inc.2008

External links

• http://www.paulinsect.com www.paulinsect.com
• Paul Insect on Flickr
• http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/crawling-around-with-paul-insect

Insect 2004 - Old news & work

• http://www.insect.co.uk/2004/Newsletter.html

Paul Insect: Poison (Graffoto review)