Graffiti · Tattoo · Illustration
Le Funky
About the Artist
Gabriel Roque
Le Funky
“Creating stories, memories and friendships that are essential to his artistic Manifest and that keep on feeding his insatiable curiosity.”
French - Portuguese Artist, born in 1993 in Orange, France and raised in Alentejo, Portugal. He started drawing in his youth, heavily influenced by the cartoons, video games and the Skateboard graphics that he could get his hands on at the time. He studied Arts program at Gabriel Pereira high school in Évora, that’s where he started his interest for Illustration. He then followed with Graphic Design studies in the University of Évora.
In those first years of university he discovers Graffiti, a whole new unexplored universe. He then creates an Art Collective / Graffiti crew with his friends and they start experimenting their creations on this new medium, painting bigger and bigger walls, abandoned factories and Hall of Fame graffiti jams.
By the end of his studies, he got the chance to travel and make projects related to his Illustrative work, from Germany to Taiwan, he participated in different events doing Live Painting and other commissioned projects. In the midst of all these new opportunities, a friend introduced him to the world of Tattooing which then became one of his main activities.
In the following years a lot of new adventures unraveled, all related to Graffiti and Tattooing, participating in different events around the world; Meeting of styles Kosovo and Denmark, Urban Art Cambodia, AT exchange Thailand, Art on Train, Luxembourg Tattoo Expo, Ottawa Tattoo convention, etc…