Duggie Fields

Salisbury, England 1945.

'Sometime in the late 1950s I discovered my connection with the act of painting. Having moved from the country to the city, the mid 60s saw me at Chelsea Art School just off the Kings Road in the heady days of Swinging London, after a brief encounter with Architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic, where amongst others Id met the nascent Pink Floyd. By the early 70s I found myself sharing a flat with founder and former lead singer Syd Barrett, the home/studio Ive occupied on my own ever since. In the 80s, somehow I became briefly a reflection of my own earliest form of received iconography, the discarded cosmetics displays from my parents pharmacy storeroom where many hours were spent playing as a child, when I was featured on similar products myself in Japan. In the 90s I discovered the digital medium; my workspace expanded from the confines of the studio into the virtual world. Making imagery still always the main occupation, hours spent chasing line, form, colour and content; solitarily, obsessively, demonically, joyously, neurotically, irrationally, hopelessly, devotedly, delightedly.'

'Duggie Fields's dayglo post-pop paintings are instantly recognizable. Despite his concern with the ...

Selected One-Man Exhibitions

1971 Hamet Gallery, London 1972 Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford; 1975 Kinsman-Morrison Gallery, London 1979 Kyle Gallery, London; 1980 lkon Gallery, Birmingham; Midland Group, Nottingham; New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh; Roundhouse Gallery, London 1982 Spacex Gallery, Exeter; B2 Gallery London 1983 Shiseido Exhibition, Tokyo 1987 Albermarle Gallery, London 1991 Rempire Gallery, New York 2000 Random Retrospective, Virtual Gallery, DuggieFields.com




Selected Group Exhibitions


1976 New London in New York, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York 1979 The Figurative Show, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London; Masks, The Ebury Gallery, London; Culture Shock, The Midland Group, Nottingham; Art and Artifice, B2 Gallery, London 1983 Taste, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1984 The Male Nude, Homeworks Gallery, London 1985 Image-Codes, Art about Fashion, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; VisualAid, Royal Academy, London l986 The Embellishment of the Statue of Liberty, Cooper Hewitt Museum/Barney's New York 1987 Twenty Artists Twenty Techniques, Albemarle Gallery, London 1989 Fashion and Surrealism, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1988 Het Mannelisknaakt, Gallery Bruns, Amster...

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