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Extrabold, a shop as well as gallery, opened in September 2007 and has so far executed 6 popular exhibitions, showing work from Samuel François, Hell'O Monsters, Jerome Vallin, Veenom, Jan Danebod and Dave the Chimp. Extrabold set up an exclusive gallery space for inspirational work from an emerging art scene that has been dubbed as “Contemporary Urban”.

This time they have invited another London-based artist to exhibit with them for their 7th exhibition, who goes under his graffiti tag name, INSA. His show will begin with a Private View on 9th May, and takes the title "Wants & Needs", a nod towards the themes that inform his work; "My aim is to create beautiful objects of desire in order to explore the relationship between sex, commodity and art. I want to show how our need for products, material objects and even artworks themselves can be confused with our wants and sexual desire".

INSA is a major player in the London Graffiti scene, well known worldwide for his technical spray-can abilities as well as his iconic posters of abstract ladies’ legs in fetish heels. But he is more than a Graffiti Artist. Since graduating from Goldsmiths College of Art in 2001, he has developed the themes within his work. He depicts fashionable, iconic images and objects that modern society craves and obsesses over, alongside the objects commonly associated with fetish, to encourage the viewer to critically appraise what arouses and excites them. He not only makes aesthetic, well crafted pieces of art that have value in their own right, but also weaves layers of critical meaning within each piece, challenging the viewer and particularly the sub-cultures he subscribes to. Within his work he expresses the confusion of a generation who have grown up bombarded with brands, products and sex.