Gareth Jukes

“The street in the extended sense of the word is not only the area of fleeting impressions and chance encounters but a place where the flow of life is bound to assert itself. Again
the kaleidoscopic sights mingle with unidentified shapes and fragmentary visual complexes and cancel each other out, thereby preventing the onlooker from following up on any of the innumerable suggestions they offer. What appears to him are not so much sharp-contoured individuals engaged in this or that definable pursuit as lose throngs of sketchy, completely indeterminate figures. Each has a story, yet the storey is not given.” - Siegfried Kracauer, “ Once Again the Street”

Dudley-based artist Gareth Jukes works primarily in the field of Street Photography. After doing a NVQ in Media in his home town of Dudley in the mid-90s he went on to do a BA Hons in Photography at Wolverhampton University’s School of Art and Design.

It was at art school where he gained an interest in street photography and his skills developed under the guidance of John Timberlake and Autography Photographer Anthony Lam

Gareth’s work had featured in several exhibitions across the West Midlands before being given the chance to work on L.O.L.C a national project co-ordinated by fashion designer and consultant Wayne Hemmingway to launch the grand opening of Wolverhampton’s Pop Art gallery. His work was also recently featured in The New Designers Awards held in London in July 2007.