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"With Gundams, it’s more about building the robots than owning them. It’s like meditation for me. It slows down my overactive mind, and quiets a lot of my anxiety."

Avant Arte: Why do you think people collect?

INSA: I think collecting is a human trait, something that we’re all born with.

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It’s funny – I’ve got three kids and when we go to the beach, they naturally just start collecting stones. Picking their favourites, cleaning them, organising them. I’ve now got a house full of stones.

Avant: How did you start collecting?

INSA: I’ve always collected things as long as I can remember.

As a boy growing up in Leeds pre-internet, collecting was about gathering information. I’d collect Ninja Turtles comics, different glass bottles – anything that excited me. I had racks and racks of VHS cassettes with TV clips I had recorded and edited together.

In 1989, my mum bought me a book called Subway Art – from that moment I was fascinated by g