Studio B, Quiet

Depicts a nervous man, standing beside a microphone, in a radio station studio during the Second World War. Roy George Herbert Fluke (b. 1921) served with the Australian Army during the Second World War, enlisting in September 1942 at Wingham, New South Wales. He was known as Roy Fluke or alternatively Roy George Herbert Fluke and often signed his works of art 'A R Fluke'. He was discharged in December 1946, serving with the 2/2 Light Field Regiment. Born near London in 1921, he came to Australia in 1925. He studied art part-time at the East Sydney Technical College from 1939 to 1941. Serving with the Australian Army from 1942-46, he lost his left leg, and after demobilisation resumed his studies in 1950 under the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Training Scheme. Fluke worked part-time as a teacher and in television as a designer. In 1960 he joined the staff at the National Art School in Sydney. He was a painter, cartoonist and printmaker. He won a number of art Awards and regional art prizes between 1954 and 1961, the South Australian Royal Show Prize in 1957 and the Sulman Prize in 1963.