After a record week of sales at a London auction house, the art world continued the hunt for the enigmatic genius whose unorthodox pieces have brought crowds from the all over the world. Oaks Undercover can exclusively reveal how this search ended up on our own doorstep. Lionel Corduroy of the Tate modern explained, ‘Purely due to chance after being trapped in the summer floods, I spent several days in Sheffield. I decided to have a look around the aftermath when I found a high concentration of a graffiti tag that we’d only seen in Soho. One word. Six Letters… DANKSY’

‘That was the hard part,’ continued Corduroy, ‘far from being a reclusive, Danksy had left a trail of tags to help him home on a Saturday night so we were led straight to his house.’

 

Oaks prop John Danks, began his art career purely by accident after throwing up in a traffic cone and leaving it in the middle of Barkers Pool. The resulting piece was picked up by the metropolitan museum in New York, and thus a legend was born.

‘It happened every week, a stray kebab wrapper, a pile of Carling cans, you name it. I was just going about the day-to-day work of a young man and was labelled an artist- it was embarrassing really.’ said Danks. However, it continued and after Oaks relegation he decided to go full time. ‘If that’s what I can do by accident what could I do if I tried?’

 

Danksy’s stand out piece came in the summer when he arranged for all of South Yorkshire’s waterways to back up and as a result caused a flood at Hillsborough. ‘Swimming Owls’, was designed as a call to the residents of S6 to back Wednesday, and for the players to show they can overcome great adversity and charge towards the Premiership. Whether this has achieved it’s goal is open to debate.

 

At he beginning of the season Danksy took the decision to go part time for Oaks. Saturday’s are seen as his most creative day, in the past rugby would be the outlet today it is art. Danksy’s latest work was revealed as an ironic protest against consumerism and advertising, and comes in the form of an over the top company car.

 

When asked to comment on the success of his team mate an Oaks colleague remarked ‘Artist, eh. I’d never have guessed. He’s got a flash car, flash boots, and flash shoulder pads, the lot... I thought he must have won big on a scratch card. Though it does explain why he kept on asking to draw me naked.’