I have a piece of work in a show opening tonight with some serious legends- FUTURA, CRASH and DAZE!!
The good folks at RECOAT gallery have got together quite a list of people to show in their first year anniversary exhibition. Check out the details below…
So 100 people got in line for the party and were lucky enough to get one of these for FREE. But don’t worry if you were too late for the queue or not in London as you can now get one here for the very friendly price of £20 inc. P+P.
Men’s
-Premium quality.
-Labeled for authenticity.
-Double printed for extra colour POP.
Women’s
-Premium quality.
-Labeled for authenticity.
-Double printed for extra colour POP.
So i gotta say thanks to everyone involved in making this party happen and everyone that came and enjoyed the freeness…
5 days of no sleep to turn this empty warehouse floor into INSALAND-
The night was all about fun and enjoyment- trying to show that a free shared appreciation is a more valuable thing than money can buy…
There are plenty more pictures of the party over at EMMA TAKES PIX
Amazing sets from KAM and BURAKA- thanks!
..and a surprise performance form the Merkle Man JAMMER and crew made it hype.
And ACYDE did it proper to finish!
Heel love was in full effect…and the reverse gloryhole bum cut out was enjoyed by men and women alike..
A glimpse at the aftermath.
Thanks again to Katya and Natasha from Red Bull for the endless free bar and help with everything!!
The flyer below has now been updated with the correct RSVP address.
If you wanna come please make sure to get your names down on the list.
Part two of my Dirty Cash exhibition is a party open to all…
Come enjoy the freeness- free bar and free exclusive tee produced just for the night for the 1st 100 people!
Music from London’s finest: ACYDE and KAM, and also a live PA from fresh Portuguese trio BURAKA SOM SISTEMA
If you wanna come be sure to RSVP asap to: uk.brand@uk.redbull.com
Here is a little look at some of the work currently on show:
“Exterior Gloss”
“Exterior Gloss II”
“Embedded”
I have a collection of new paintings on show in London…
Open to the public from the 3rd July.
Flawless gallery- 105 New Bond Street
Here is a proper look at the venice beach store party….
Daytime rooftoop action…
Right in the heart of melrose ave, west hollywood.
Go big or go home!
Thanks to Jason, 5th Column for the pics.
And thanks to Migel and all at Barracuda for the ladders and beers….
“Challenging the ownership of objectification as a commodity and the gender roles in streetwear today”
INSA x ROGUE STATUS tee now available HERE
So the Rogue Status launch party went down and it was crazy fun…
….i will post up more pictures soon!
Thanks to everyone that came down and partied before the cops shut it down.
If you in LA next week you gotta come to the INSA x ROGUE STATUS launch party…
I am slipping on my calendar updates- sorry!
“Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places.”
Sometimes confidence is key- just do it!
And where better than the side of one of east London’s seedier joints
The lady responsible for all my amazing photography has finally got round to putting a selection of her favourite photos in one place.
Go check out her site: EMMATAKESPIX.COM now!
A few weeks ago me and a couple of London’s finest ATG CREW painted up the inside of cordy house…
… for a wicked party put on by Red Bull…
…two of my grime heroes JME and SKEPTA treated everyone to some goodness!
…serious!
a feature on work from BUY MY LOVE….
“Objects of desire. When does a desire become a fetish? What is the relationship between sex and selling? These questions and more are explored in Buy My Love, an exhibition by UK graff legend INSA currently on display in Glasgow.
London-based artist INSA straddles the worlds of commercial art and underground expression. He started out as a graffiti artist but also trained at Goldsmiths. His work explores how branding and sexual desire interact, and despite this (or because of it) he has been commissioned by the likes of Nike and Kangol.
Shoes feature prominently in INSA’s work. A canvas features an arched, bare foot alongside another encased in the distinctive shapes of an Air Max trainer. His distinctive motif of worm-like legs in high heels adorns stilettos, walls and PVC corsets.
Like the human body parts he paints, INSA’s art works have themselvs become objects of desire and highly collectable….”
Been so busy i forgot to upload MAY…….
Hearts are the new heels!
Heels are the new doorways,
Thanks alot to Davey for all the pics in this post!
PVC prints and hand drawn collection,
One offs- Pink, Yellow and Blue
Hmmmmm-pink
Danger!
New work- “Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places”
Luxembourg’s finest came to enjoy the opening.
If you have any enquiries about the work please contact the gallery-EXTRABOLD
Loving luxembourg and been working hard getting everything ready for tomorrows opening….
Extrabold have produced these hot hot hot tees for the exhibition….
If you missed out on the BUY MY LOVE tee no worries as here is mark II.
These will be available from EXTRABOLD tomorrow and i will have 30 of these available from the blog when i get back. If you wanna make sure you get one just email me your size and i will safe it.
Only 30- first come first served.
NEW EXHIBITION OPENS ON MAY 9th
WANTS & NEEDS
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An exhibition of new work by INSA presented by Luxembourg’s premier contemporary urban gallery/boutique Extrabold.
10/5/2008 - 14/6/2008
Opening Night: 9/5/2008
Extrabold
24, avenue de la Liberté
L-1930 Luxembourg
Opening hours:
mon-fri 10h00-19h00
www.extrabold.eu
As before, those interested in buying work that can’t make it to Luxembourg please contact me or the gallery.
I have quite an indepth interview it the lastest CLUTTER mag
“C: So there’s an internal fight between consumerism and being an artist?
Exactly. My new work, like the sneaker fetish stuff is deliberately trying to address the issue of consumer fetishism and the role of us as buyers and how driven we are to be represented by products. And the relationship between want we want and what we need. I don’t think it’s very healthy.
C: Isn’t it a tribal thing though –tattoos, trainers etc..
Yeah definitely. It’s a way of representing who you are through clothes and shoes but I think we’re in such a flooded market where you buy your way into cool. In most sub-cultures you should have to work hard to show you are part of that culture and not just buy into it. It’s like if you can afford to buy “this” pair of trainers then you are instantly cooler than the next guy who didn’t buy the really hot kicks, when no you’re not you’re just an idiot with money, it doesn’t make you any cooler…”
Wow i love these fakes so much!
They are so close to the original but yet so far-
The original INSA xOKI-NI hoodies were never produced by Kidrobot but yet these ones are…
And this is the best yet- this colourway never existed, not even as a sample so you gotta love the ingenuity.
As always these are being dealt with.
Whoop Whoop another front cover…
The lastest graphotism magazine has 24 pages on the calendar and some talk:
“…The initial concept was to focus on the colours of the cars. I didn’t want to go too graffiti but definitely wanted to have a graff feeling about it and make it look like my style. As the subject matter is purely an aesthetic thing, I wanted to exaggerate this by focusing on the surface layer- the gloss that hides everything below…….. I wanted it all to be super shiny, hyper real with vivid colours. Get the girls in colour matched rubber and cover the whole thing in a drippy shiny layer of paint….”
I have been painting some large posters laterly…
Here is a spot i got the other night…loved the caged look!
Reminiscent of good old Panda Pops, i enjoyed the new Redbull Cola last night.
I love visiting ireland to paint…
…thanks to help from Irelands finest Maser and Rask, i got this fairly large street side piece done.
Went to belgium this weekend with the Fuel Girls for some lowrider action.
Went to check out the handy work of original lowrider tattoo artist Jose Lopez and mister pinstriper David Anthony Garcia.
Drinking, smoking straight westcoasting- in belgium with waffles
Its the end of ‘BUY MY LOVE’ in Glasgow.
Thanks to all those that past through the exhibition.
A couple of the tees are still available though- so be quick and contact the gallery-
RECOAT GALLERY
So last weekend MSK were in town and i was honored to paint with the likes of SABER, RETNA, REYES and the UKs first MSK member AROE. GARY and ODISY also represented.
Me and cool female streetwear brand HELLZ BELLZ got together to produce some hottness…
These jeans are only available at selected stores worldwide and produced in a limited amount.
Hit up HELLZ BELLZ to find out where to get yours!
Go win one of these hot new ‘Not Bad For A Girl’ x Addict hoodies HERE
Not only did my partner in crime ETHEL take this great promo shot she will also be helping judge the competition.
The hottest thing to hit this side of SE14/8.
The BLUE BITZ dunk-hi.
The complete Lewisham coucil colourway.
Thanks Kash and NikeID for hooking these up.
So I am pleased to show you some pics from the show:
If you are interested in purchasing work and want to know what pieces are still available please contact the gallery
Glasgow exclusive: Purple and Gold PVC prints, High-heels and exhibition t-shirt
Dripping off the walls…
Thanks alot to Amy and Ali who run the gallery for a great time! Thanks to Danny, Red Bull and Carhartt for helping make it all run smoothly.
Next week is the opening of my latest exhibition up in Glasgow:-
Recoat gallery is proud to present new works by INSA:
‘BUY MY LOVE’
14th Feb -Pre private view special time.
15th Feb -Opening night- 7 till 10pm
RECOAT GALLERY- 323 North Woodside Road, Glasgow, G20 6ND- 0141 341 00 49
I am showing a group of new paintings and PVC prints, i will also be doing a large painting in the space.
Also there is an exclusive ‘BUY MY LOVE’ t-shirt- the first 20 people through the door will get one for free!!!
As i am aware many of you won’t be in glasgow so i will be sure to post photos of the work and opening as soon as i can.
If you can’t make it but are interested in what new work will be available please contact me or the gallery.
Double page spread from the January 18th Evening Standard newspaper…
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I never knew this was in as the Standard is not my regular read- but thanks alot to Ruth for sending it in.
If you spot my work printed anywhere please let me know- your thoughtfulness will be rewarded.
So this is part 2 in my ‘Darlene as Toy’ series.
So i thought i’d share my new tattoo.
It is a memorial piece to my cousin Becky- who passed away a year ago this week.
I got this done on her birthday towards the end of last year.
The work is by my friend and amazing tattoo artist Nikole Lowe.
Here is a nice clip a friend of mine shot when i painted the shoreditch wholecar:
And this is a short video project i did last year that has been on my myspace for ages but i never put it on here:
Apart from the muscles, cars and money- we both got featured in the latest DUB magazine-
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DUB: Why are hot chicks in sneakers so erotic?
INSA:”…it’s kind of the opposite of why a chick looks so hot in heels. Heels have always been attractive because the woman wearing them is restricting herself in a submissive way, putting herself in discomfort to enhance her sexual attractiveness. Well, sneakers are the reverse: they are empowering, comfortable and active, so i think it’s to do with the strength and independence a chick shows wearing sneakers…”
YAY 2008!!
Happy January- i will be putting up a calendar page at the beginning of every month.
Last week i had the pleasure of doing a wholecar in the sky…
Not your average top to bottom-
click on the image for bigger image…
Thanks to Jim for the invitation to rock this great spot
Cool Australian mag ACCLAIM recentley did a nice little feature on the Bentley- have a look:
If your interested in reading a little interview with me, one is online now over at Freshness Mag.
Toy company PLANET 6 asked me to customized one of their latest BODE releases- the BODE BROAD.
As BODE’s women were such a part of teenage fantasies it was only right to combine her with the ultimate adolescent fantasy- the ever alluring queen DARLENE…
If you don’t know Darlene was Ice-Ts wife that featured on the cover of his ‘POWER’ LP.
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-Re-sculpted legs, crotch, eyes, breasts and arms.
-Custom gun sculpt.
-Custom made jewelry.
-Hand sewn swimsuit.
-Airbrush paint-job.
Here is my second ever print release:
Highest quality giclee print.
Limited Edition signed and numbered out of 100.
So the crazy car-racing, fire- breathing Fuel Girls asked me to do their new calendar.
The challenge was to take the very tired genre of ‘cars and girls’ and inject a bit of creativity and INSA love.
Along with my amazing photographer Emma we shot half here and half in the states.
We tracked down a whole variety of hot cars, convinced ‘House of Harlot’ to donate some of there coolest rubber items and threw a whole lot of paint- its been a busy month, but a whole lot of fun!
Let me know what you think….?
Check out the behind the scenes page…
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YOU CAN GET A COPY DIRECT FROM THE FUEL GIRLS, JUST CICK HERE.
So you know i love to report on INSA fakes spotted around the world.
Well here is another from China
A friend saw these posters in fake sneaker/jeans store.
HYPE Yellow, KA-CHING Green and UNREAL Orange.
