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A Fluke mural in Montreal’s District Central puts a child at the centre of a conversation about animals and the future. According to an October 14, 2026 press release from World Animal Protection Canada, distributed through PR Newswire and published by The North Bay Nugget, the Montreal artist created the large-scale work in the Chabanel sector. His six-year-old daughter appears among wildlife and also joined him in painting it.

For followers of street art, the project offers several connected subjects to explore: an artist’s family story, an animal-protection organisation’s message, and a wall’s relationship with its industrial surroundings. Looking at those connections gives visitors more to consider than the animal subjects alone.

The Fluke mural begins with his daughter’s perspective

The child is central because she inspired the project’s underlying idea. In the release, Fluke describes rediscovering his own values through his daughter’s curiosity about nature. He wanted to bring that curiosity into the city and encourage people to pause and think about the animals with which humans share the planet.

The release also presents their shared painting process as part of the message. An adult passes on compassion and responsibility while learning from a younger person’s perspective. That account gives the central figure a role beyond portraiture: the daughter connects the making of the mural with its concern for future generations.

A useful viewing approach is to begin with the child, follow the surrounding wildlife, then return to the central figure. This is a suggested way to read the composition, allowing the family story and the broader advocacy theme to inform each other.

The wildlife connects different scales of responsibility

The animals include a bumblebee, a coyote, a falcon, and a humpback whale with her calf, according to the release. World Animal Protection Canada links the selection to biodiversity, urban coexistence and obligations between generations.

Look first for the individual animals, then consider their presence together. An insect and a marine mammal bring very different scales of life into the same artwork. The whale-and-calf pairing also offers a point of comparison with the artist-and-daughter relationship behind the project. That comparison is a reading visitors can explore while looking at the wall.

Colin Saravanamuttoo, Executive Director of World Animal Protection Canada, frames the mural in the release as an invitation to reconnect with childhood curiosity and empathy for animals. His stated hope is that viewers consider how present choices affect animals and future generations. This gives the wildlife an explicit campaigning context.

Chabanel’s industrial setting is part of the composition

The setting matters because Fluke intended a contrast between wildlife and the built environment, the release says. It places the mural on Parc Avenue in District Central’s Chabanel sector, describing an industrial area where biodiversity and green-space initiatives are underway.

For a visit, consider the wall within the street before concentrating on individual figures. A view that includes surrounding buildings can help explain the project’s choice of setting. A closer look can then bring attention back to the child and animals. These two ways of looking connect the image to its location.

Hélène Veilleux, Executive Director of the Société de développement commercial District Central, or SDC District Central, describes the work in the release as a prospective gateway to the neighbourhood. She links it with nearby landscaping initiatives and the organisation’s ambition to involve art, creativity and nature in the area’s transformation. Those are the local organisation’s expectations for the project.

The collaboration adds context to Fluke’s street-art roots

Fluke’s background connects this partnership to Montreal’s graffiti culture. The release describes his development alongside peers in the city’s early street-art scene before moving into mural practice. It also lists presentations of his work in the United States, France, Hong Kong and New Zealand.

Here, that practice meets a family narrative and an organisation’s animal-protection agenda. Following the collaboration means paying attention to who shaped the project as well as who painted it. World Animal Protection Canada initiated and developed the mural with Fluke; The Dream Catcher Production produced it. SDC District Central provided financial support through the Quebec government’s Fonds Signature Métropole, according to the release.

Visitors can use that background to connect three elements: the central child, the surrounding wildlife and the industrial street. For a broader street-art itinerary, the Wallscape map can help organise further exploration. At this wall, allowing time for both the figures and their surroundings makes the relationship between a personal story and a public message easier to examine.

Source: The North Bay Nugget (PR Newswire) — World Animal Protection Canada press release