Peter Nigel Fluck (born 7 April 1941) is a British

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and one half of the partnership known as ''Luck and Flaw'' (with

Roger Law Roger Law (born 6 September 1941, in Littleport, Cambridgeshire), is a British caricaturist, ceramist and one half of ''Luck and Flaw'' (with Peter Fluck), creators of the popular satirical TV puppet show ''Spitting Image''. Roger Law was a pion ...

), creators of the popular

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Spitting Image ''Spitting Image'' is a British satirical television puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. First broadcast in 1984, the series was produced by 'Spitting Image Productions' for Central Independent Television ov ...

''. He attended Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, a grammar school, then Cambridge School of Art (now part of Anglia Ruskin University). Fluck taught art in the 1970s at the Colchester School of Art in

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. After ''Spitting Image'' finished its run, he moved to

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to work as an artist.Peter Fluck's Chaotic Constructions Tate Gallery, St Ives

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, 4 March 1997 He married Anne-Cécile de Bruyne in 1963 in Cambridge. They have a daughter and a son. He lives in Cadgwith,

References

External links

Peter Fluck's website
1941 births Living people Alumni of Anglia Ruskin University Artists from Cambridge Artists from Cornwall English caricaturists English satirists English sculptors English male sculptors Spitting Image British republicans {{UK-illustrator-stub