David Field

I am a UK based Artist born in Northern Ireland but currently living near London.
I work as a commercial Sculptor and experimental Fine Art photographer.

Professionally, working as a commercial sculptor to make my living, I have over 25 years experience making three dimensional objects for Public Art projects, Theatre, Film, TV and Retail display.

My work with photography involves exploring qualities of light on the macro scale, revealed on its passage through, or as it reflects off, natural surfaces and materials. I am fascinated by the idea that all around us there are events and vistas that we cannot percieve because of their transience and minute scale.
Some of the scenes captured in my experiments have an other worldly quality to them and could be said to represent fleeting glimpses into other dimensions or modes of perception.

I use digital capture equipment and my own method of shooting at the macro level to reveal lights hidden qualities. I have chosen the digital capture, review and editing work flow as the process is quicker than traditional film based media.
In my current body of work I have chosen to restrict my capture experiments to early in the morning or after moon rise as the quality of light at the...

BA (Hons) 1st Class, in 3d Design Ceramics from University of Wales, Howard Gardens, Cardiff. 1993.
MA Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art, London, UK. 1998.

I worked as the Studio Assistant for Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, The Queens Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland, between 1997 and 1998.

Royal College of Art Gallery,
London 1998
Linge Rosset Ceramics,
Hamburg 1998.
Chelsea Arts show
London 1998.
Craft Potters Association exhibition, London 1998.
The Paddington Sculpture Trail,
London 2014.
The Paddington Pop-ups Sculpture Trail, London 2017.
Project 0 and La Mer Wave Walk, New York 2017.