Paul Insect valuation
London artist whose 2007 show was bought in its entirety by Damien Hirst before it opened.
Paul Insect is a British artist based in London, one of the generation that moved from the street into galleries in the 2000s.
What a work by Paul Insect is worth
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Bio
Paul Insect is a British artist based in London, one of the generation that moved from the street into galleries in the 2000s. His work mixes skulls, anatomy, pop culture and candy colour across paintings, screenprints and sculpture. His 2007 solo exhibition Bullion, at Lazarides in London, was bought in its entirety by Damien Hirst before it opened, and the works went into Hirst's Murderme collection.
Screenprints and editions make up much of what circulates, many released through galleries associated with the street-art scene, with paintings and sculpture the scarcer category. Edition size, colourway and hand-finishing distinguish otherwise identical prints, and the margins should be photographed for the numbering and signature. For unique works, gallery provenance and exhibition history are worth establishing.
Insect, Bullion and the King's Cross show
Before the solo career he ran a collective called insect, from 1996 until it disbanded in 2005. He also works as PINS, and he made the cover art for DJ Shadow's 2006 album The Outsider. Alongside Banksy he took part in the Cans Festival, Santa's Ghetto in Bethlehem and the paintings on the separation wall.
In 2008 he showed in a disused sex shop in King's Cross, again with Lazarides, and the show included twelve bronze skulls with enamelled bunny ears. Lazarides published books of Bullion and of Poison in 2007 and 2008, each in an edition of 500. The bronzes and the books come up far less often than the screenprints and are identified by their own edition details.
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