Peter Fluck | |
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Born | Peter Nigel Fluck 7 April 1941 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom |
Alma mater | Anglia Ruskin University |
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Notable work | Spitting Image |
Peter Nigel Fluck (born 7 April 1941) is a British caricaturist and one half of the partnership known as Luck and Flaw (with Roger Law), [1] creators of the popular satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image .
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 Colchester, Essex. After Spitting Image finished its run, he moved to Cornwall to work as an artist. [2]
He married Anne-Cécile de Bruyne in 1963 in Cambridge. They have a daughter and a son. He lives in Cadgwith, Cornwall.
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a public university in East Anglia, United Kingdom. Its origins are in the Cambridge School of Art, founded by William John Beamont in 1858. It became a university in 1992, and was renamed after John Ruskin in 2005. It is one of the “post-1992 universities”.
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