Discover Flukez

IT'S THE ESSENCE OF WHO YOU ARE IT COMES FROM YOUR SOUL

Discover Flukez

Contempory Urban Artist

From Bring Art To The Community project

BEYOND GRAFFITI UK'S FIRST GOV FUNDED LONGTERM URBAN ARTS YOUTH PROJECT ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS & ARTIST Beyond graffiti was founded in 1987 by Southampton youth services, it was a long term community based graffiti and cultural arts project with the aims to inspire young artist, musicians, dj's and creatives From southampton & surrounding areas to come together & harness their skills & talents to express themselves

The Fist Beyond Graffiti Art Festval 1987

BRING ART TO THE COMMUNITY PROJECT

A council permitted project run & funded by myself & a colleague, to expose the public to street art & graffiti art with intention to explore the positive impacts of public art, aswell as help remove the negative connotations surrounding the genre. All the while, bring colour and energy through the ever changing space, to the dull and drab urban environment.

Now in its 3rd year.

SOUTHAMPTON 2025 CITY CULTURE RECLIAM FESTIVAL 2021 South Coast Walls

As part of the Reclaim Festival SOUTH COAST WALLS Brings together the best of the South coasts urban graffiti & street artists together for one day for a visual extravaganza

Working together with Southampton City council & Solent Univercity as part of southamptons 2025 city of culture bid.

Artwork: Tiller & Fine

Artwork: Junk & Inos

This project was to supply & install the walls, supply the paint/materials & all the artsists.

To put on a urban arts display day, for solent Univercity as part of the Reclaim Festival

Img courtesy of:Southampton Evening Echo Img courtesy:@So25 city of culture bid

Img courtesy:@So25 city of culture bid

FROM: BRING ART TO THE COMUNITY PROJECT

THE SOUTH IS WATCHIN WALL

Winchester University WorkShop & Display

Final day of week long univercity taster stay for underprivileged & vulnerable young adults in care

This project was to initially run a introduction class in graffiti & street art, then a display followed buy an interactive hands on workshop

THE SOUTH ROCKS WALL

From Bring Art To The Community project

UNTOLD STORIES, UNSEEN REALMS EXHIBITION SOUTHWARK GALLERY LONDON

My two supplied artworks

An exhibition to explore the emerging, not only UK but global graffiti art culture

Offering artists a platform to not only display their work & talents & break through, but also sell their pieces in a gallery environment

Courtesy of lwt news

Halloween wall, From:Bring Art To The Community project

I was privileged enough to be one of the artist chosen to represent the South of England at Youth xspo 89 at Wembley, through the southern youth services

WEMBLEY YOUTH XSPO 1989

SOUTH COAST GRAFF ALIEN

From Bring Art To The Community project

STOP CRIME MURAL Southampton City Council commission

Working together with Southampton City Council, we were commissioned to create a mural to expand awarenes for their crime prevention stratergy, focused in the local Millbrook community.

The Stop Crime mural was a epic 30mtr x 3mtr instalation placed on the end of the shopping parade that was the heart of the community, so to ensure max impact and public reachability

Flukez & Fine

THE SOUTH ROCKS WALL

From a games room commision for 11 year olds birthday

SOUTHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL COMMISSIONS Working in partnership with Southampton City Council I completed a number of local commissions, from underpasses to NCP carparks

Tremona Rd Underpass Southampton

NCP Carpark Southampton city centre

THE SOUTH HAS WOKEN WALL

From Bring Art To The Community project

My work attempts to encapsulate the energy, the movement, the emotion & vibrance of the trains & walls of tradition old school graffiti, while allowing you to bring the out side into your home space

CANVAS BY FLUKEZ

From:Bring Art To The Community project

The ever changing space outside your window

BIO

GET TO KNOW A BIT ABOUT ME..

FLUKEZ A first gen Southampton Bboy & Graffiti Artist, First discovered graffiti & hip hop early 80’s, & Swiftly my addiction was flooded with visual and musical madness in the films of Wild style, Beat street and Breakdance, and of course the mighty style wars. My life changed forever.

Was one of the founding members of Aries force rockers, Southampton’s early premier break dancing crews, as well as one of the founding members of Beyond graffiti, Southampton’s first local authority run urban/ graffiti arts project, During this time. I undertook numerous commissioned pieces for Southampton city Council and various other local authorities, including appearance at Wembley youth expo 89 as well as art exhibited at a London art gallery.

During the 90’s, life’s paths took me away from graffiti, and hip hop culture with a career, spouses etc, all keeping me occupied for the coming years.

During the first pandemic lockdown I lost a member of my family suddenly from covid, this impacted me in a way I never dreamed would happen, suddenly, I believed life was to short to just chase money and make a living,, I swore to myself I was never going back to my career, a propriety trader in finance, working at a desk in front of multi screens day in day out, I was going to spend the remaining time I have left doing something I love.

As the pandemic continued and lockdown madness kicked in, maybe as a mental defence or a internal way of dealing with the unknown, out of nowhere I suddenly became creative, suddenly I was doing Art again, with a passion, I was going through a creative explosion.

With over 13 full size 10 metre pieces in the first few summer months I was painting again!

And I haven’t stopped yet, having continuously created numerous bigger & better catalogue of large scale pieces, many 20 mitres x 2mitres in size, while creating & funding a community project "Bring Art To The Comunity" with public space permitted for use by Southampton City Council, which is now starting its 3rd year.

Over the following years I have worked with Solent Univercity & Southamton City Council, SO25 City of Culture Bid, creating a urban Art & Graffiti Event for the Reclaim Festival, southamptons premier yearly cultural Festival. I have worked with Winchester Univercity supplying a display & interactive arts workshop for underprivileged & vulnerable young adults in care from throughout the UK, as part of their week long univercity taster stay.

I have worked with numerous bands & companies supplying branding graphics & cover artwork, as well as a number of mural commissions for variuos people & events.

Durring this time I have also created a body of work in multi medium on canvas, as well as printed work on apparel & merch.

It's been a extremely busy few years, & I'm truely loving this creative explosion my life is going through as a response to the pandemic, my rediscovered passions & enthusiasm for art is the thing that will ensure I get out of bed every morning for the rest of my days.

Add to all this, I also bootstrapped a start up: The Graff Shop, Southampton newest premium graffiti arts supplies.. a silver lining from the 2020 pandemic, I now make a living doing something I love.

@iamflukez

WWW.THEGRAFFSHOP.COM