Duggie Fields
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Duggie Fields is a British artist, born in Tidworth
in 1945 and resident in London
, in the Earls Court
area.
He spent his youth in the English countryside with his family, then briefly studied architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic
. In 1964 Duggie Fields began at the Chelsea School of Art
, where he stayed for four years, before leaving with a scholarship that took him on his first visit to the United States
, in 1968. During the years at the Chelsea School of Art he lived in the Kensington and Chelsea
area.
As a student Fields' work progressed from minimal, conceptual and constructivist phases to a more hard-edge post-Pop figuration. His main influences were at that time Jackson Pollock
, Mondrian
and comic books, with a special regard to those worked on by Stan Lee
. Around 1968 Fields went to live in Earls Court Square sharing a flat with Syd Barrett
, who had left Pink Floyd
just previous. Fields still lives in the same flat and he works in Barrett's former room using it as his atelier
.
By the middle of the 70s his work included many elements that were later defined as Post-modernism
.
In 1983 Duggie Fields was invited by the Shiseido Corporation to Tokyo
, where a gallery was created to show his paintings. For the occasion the artist and his work were simultaneously featured in a television, magazine, billboard and subway advertising campaign
throughout all Japan
.
Duggie Fields has always worked starting from his architecture background, so that at the end of the 90s, and after a period of studying, he began to use the computer in order to substitute the drafting machine.
From this moment he is to describe his work in progress as Maximalist.
One-Man Exhibitions include....
1969 Acme Attractions, London. 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 2002 Immaculate Conceptions (with Andrew Logan), A&D Gallery, London. 2003 Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel. 2004-2005 Digital Age, A&D Gallery, London 2008 Galleri Dorte Phillipsen, Gi Lijre, Denmark
Group Exhibitions include......
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 The Figurative Show, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, Image-Codes, Art about Fashion, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Visual Aid, 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, Amsterdsm, St. Judes Gallery, London 1990 Universal Language, Rempire Gallery, New York 1993 Tranche d'Art Contemporain Anglais, Tutesaal, Luxemburg 1998 Exquisite Corpse, Jibby Beane, London 1999 Art 1999, Jibby Beane, London; Flesh, Blains Fine Art, London Nerve, I.C.A. London 2000 Art 2000, Jibby Beane, London 2000 Very, Up &Co., New York. 2001 Art-Tube 01, London Underground. 2002 Rapture, The Barbican, London. 2002 Digital Interface, Leciester Square, London. 2002 Gimme 5, Fairbairn and Astor, London 2003 The Haunted Swing, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. 2003 Britart, Selfridges, London. 2003 Pop, Brighton Fringe, Brighton 2004 Prints. A&D gallery, London 2004 Kiss, Spectrum Gallery, London 2005 Zulurama 2, ICA Gallery, London 2008 Installation, Dover Street Market, London 2008 Portobello Festival, Muse Gallery, London 2009 Dorte Phillipsen, Art Herning. Denmark
Selected Bibliography
The International Herald Tribune, April 1971 The Sunday Times, UK, April 1971 Studio, UK, August 1971 Zoom, France, July 193 Vogue, France, July 1974 Casa Vogue, ltaly, 1974 Andy Warhol's Interview, USA, July 1975 Austerity Binge, Bevis Hillier, Studio Vista, UK 1975 Cheap Chic, Caterine Milinaire/Carol Troy, Harmony books, USA 1975 Oui, USA. November 1975 Progressive Architecture, USA, September 1977 Artscribe, UK, No.12, 1978 Viz, UK, no.4, 1979 Arredamento Interni, Italy, 1979 ZG 80, UK, no.1, 1980 Harper's & Queen, UK, January 1980 Domus, Italy, July 1981 Marie Claire, France, September 1981 Brutus, Japan, 1981 The Connoisseur, UK, October 1981 Actuel, France, November 1981 Interiors, Tim Street-Porter, Omnibus Press, UK 1981 Elle, France, March 1982 The Face, UK, no.26, 1982 Bijutsu Techo, Japan, May 1982 Living With Colour, Deryck Healey, Rand McNally & Co, USA 1982 Hanatsubaki, Japan, January 1983 Artline, UK, February 1983 Gekkan IIustration, Japan, April 1983 Schoner Wohnen, Germany, June 1983 Art and Artists, UK, November 1983 Art in the Age of Mass Media, John A. Walker, Pluto Press, London, 1983 House and Garden, UK, March 1984 Arts and Architecture, USA, vol.2, no.3 1984 City, France, no.2 1984 The Observer Magazine, UK, 8 April 1984 Ambiente, Germany, August 1984 MetropolisM, Holland, September 1984 The Male Nude, Edward Lucie-Smith, Phaidon, Oxford, 1985 The Evening Standard, UK, 12 November 1987 Artline, UK, Vol. 3 no.10, 1988 Cosmopolitan, Germany, October 1989 W, Australia, Autumn 1989 The Fred, UK, December 1989 Fully Exposed, Emmanuel Cooper, Unwin Hyman, UK, 1990 Antenna, Poland, 1/8/1992 Abitare, Italy, April 1996 Ptooch, Russia, December 1996 The Evening Standard, UK, 16 April 1997 Computer Active, UK 8-22 October 1998 Clam, France Spring 1999 We Love You, Futique, Audio CD/Book, Booth-Clibborn Editions/Candy Records, UK, 1998 Planet Stereo, vol 1 year 3, BMI, UK 1998 The Face, UK, November 1998 The Sunday Times, UK, 14 March 1999 Vogue, Italy, April 1999 Vogue, Japan, September 1999 R.A. Magazine, UK, Autumn 1999 The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century, Tanya Harrod, Yale , UK 1999 Very, USA, No.3 March 2000 GQ Magazine, UK, April 2000 Watch, UK, 03 2000 Pop, UK, No.1 2000 Space Magazine, The Guardian, UK, 21 September 2000
Film / Video / Television
1981 ‘SLICE OF LIFE’, video Taboo club screenings, London 1982 ‘POISED ON THE EDGE OF TASTE’ , film, The London Film Co-0p; ICA Cinematheque London; London International Video Festival 1983 Alter Image, tv, Channel 4 UK 1985 ‘Menschens Kinder’, tv, ZDF Germany 1985 The Oxford Roadshow, tv, BBC 2 UK 1987 ‘South of Watford’, tv, ITV (UK) 1992 ‘Londynskie Pracownie’, tv, Ch.1 Poland 1993 ‘THE BIG RIDDLE’, video, Gas club, London, The Pot, tv, New York Cable, USA 1995 Joan Quinn Show , tv, Los Angeles Cable, USA; ‘The Big Riddle’, video, European Media Art Festival, Germany 1997 ‘The Colour Eye’, tv, BBC1 UK 1999 ‘Private Property’, tv, ITV, UK; ‘SOMETIMES’, digital animation, Hackney Empire Appeal, Lux Centre, London 2000 Portobello Film & VIdeo Festival, London; Venice Short Film Festival, Italy.
Tidworth
Tidworth is a town in south-east Wiltshire, England with a growing civilian population. Situated at the eastern edge of Salisbury Plain, it is approximately 10 miles west of Andover, 12 miles south of Marlborough, 24 miles south of Swindon, 15 miles north by north-east of Salisbury and 6 miles east...
in 1945 and resident in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, in the Earls Court
Earls Court
Earls Court is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It is an inner-city district centred on Earl's Court Road and surrounding streets, located 3.1 miles west south-west of Charing Cross. It borders the sub-districts of South Kensington to the East, West...
area.
He spent his youth in the English countryside with his family, then briefly studied architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic
University of Westminster
The University of Westminster is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. Its origins go back to the foundation of the Royal Polytechnic Institution in 1838, and it was awarded university status in 1992.The university's headquarters and original campus are based on Regent...
. In 1964 Duggie Fields began at the Chelsea School of Art
Chelsea College of Art and Design
Chelsea College of Art and Design, the erstwhile Chelsea School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, and is a leading British art and design institution with an international reputation...
, where he stayed for four years, before leaving with a scholarship that took him on his first visit to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, in 1968. During the years at the Chelsea School of Art he lived in the Kensington and Chelsea
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is a central London borough of Royal borough status. After the City of Westminster, it is the wealthiest borough in England....
area.
As a student Fields' work progressed from minimal, conceptual and constructivist phases to a more hard-edge post-Pop figuration. His main influences were at that time Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...
, Mondrian
Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian , was a Dutch painter.He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neo-Plasticism...
and comic books, with a special regard to those worked on by Stan Lee
Stan Lee
Stan Lee is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics....
. Around 1968 Fields went to live in Earls Court Square sharing a flat with Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett , born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter, best remembered as a founding member of the band Pink Floyd. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter during the band's psychedelic years, providing major musical and stylistic...
, who had left Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
just previous. Fields still lives in the same flat and he works in Barrett's former room using it as his atelier
Atelier
Atelier is the French word for "workshop", and in English is used principally for the workshop of an artist in the fine or decorative arts.Atelier may also refer to:* The Atelier Method of art instruction...
.
By the middle of the 70s his work included many elements that were later defined as Post-modernism
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a philosophical movement evolved in reaction to modernism, the tendency in contemporary culture to accept only objective truth and to be inherently suspicious towards a global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from the...
.
In 1983 Duggie Fields was invited by the Shiseido Corporation to Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, where a gallery was created to show his paintings. For the occasion the artist and his work were simultaneously featured in a television, magazine, billboard and subway advertising campaign
Advertising campaign
An advertising campaign is a series of advertisement messages that share a single idea and theme which make up an integrated marketing communication...
throughout all Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
.
Duggie Fields has always worked starting from his architecture background, so that at the end of the 90s, and after a period of studying, he began to use the computer in order to substitute the drafting machine.
From this moment he is to describe his work in progress as Maximalist.
One-Man Exhibitions include....
1969 Acme Attractions, London. 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 2002 Immaculate Conceptions (with Andrew Logan), A&D Gallery, London. 2003 Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel. 2004-2005 Digital Age, A&D Gallery, London 2008 Galleri Dorte Phillipsen, Gi Lijre, Denmark
Group Exhibitions include......
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 The Figurative Show, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, Image-Codes, Art about Fashion, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Visual Aid, 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, Amsterdsm, St. Judes Gallery, London 1990 Universal Language, Rempire Gallery, New York 1993 Tranche d'Art Contemporain Anglais, Tutesaal, Luxemburg 1998 Exquisite Corpse, Jibby Beane, London 1999 Art 1999, Jibby Beane, London; Flesh, Blains Fine Art, London Nerve, I.C.A. London 2000 Art 2000, Jibby Beane, London 2000 Very, Up &Co., New York. 2001 Art-Tube 01, London Underground. 2002 Rapture, The Barbican, London. 2002 Digital Interface, Leciester Square, London. 2002 Gimme 5, Fairbairn and Astor, London 2003 The Haunted Swing, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. 2003 Britart, Selfridges, London. 2003 Pop, Brighton Fringe, Brighton 2004 Prints. A&D gallery, London 2004 Kiss, Spectrum Gallery, London 2005 Zulurama 2, ICA Gallery, London 2008 Installation, Dover Street Market, London 2008 Portobello Festival, Muse Gallery, London 2009 Dorte Phillipsen, Art Herning. Denmark
Selected Bibliography
The International Herald Tribune, April 1971 The Sunday Times, UK, April 1971 Studio, UK, August 1971 Zoom, France, July 193 Vogue, France, July 1974 Casa Vogue, ltaly, 1974 Andy Warhol's Interview, USA, July 1975 Austerity Binge, Bevis Hillier, Studio Vista, UK 1975 Cheap Chic, Caterine Milinaire/Carol Troy, Harmony books, USA 1975 Oui, USA. November 1975 Progressive Architecture, USA, September 1977 Artscribe, UK, No.12, 1978 Viz, UK, no.4, 1979 Arredamento Interni, Italy, 1979 ZG 80, UK, no.1, 1980 Harper's & Queen, UK, January 1980 Domus, Italy, July 1981 Marie Claire, France, September 1981 Brutus, Japan, 1981 The Connoisseur, UK, October 1981 Actuel, France, November 1981 Interiors, Tim Street-Porter, Omnibus Press, UK 1981 Elle, France, March 1982 The Face, UK, no.26, 1982 Bijutsu Techo, Japan, May 1982 Living With Colour, Deryck Healey, Rand McNally & Co, USA 1982 Hanatsubaki, Japan, January 1983 Artline, UK, February 1983 Gekkan IIustration, Japan, April 1983 Schoner Wohnen, Germany, June 1983 Art and Artists, UK, November 1983 Art in the Age of Mass Media, John A. Walker, Pluto Press, London, 1983 House and Garden, UK, March 1984 Arts and Architecture, USA, vol.2, no.3 1984 City, France, no.2 1984 The Observer Magazine, UK, 8 April 1984 Ambiente, Germany, August 1984 MetropolisM, Holland, September 1984 The Male Nude, Edward Lucie-Smith, Phaidon, Oxford, 1985 The Evening Standard, UK, 12 November 1987 Artline, UK, Vol. 3 no.10, 1988 Cosmopolitan, Germany, October 1989 W, Australia, Autumn 1989 The Fred, UK, December 1989 Fully Exposed, Emmanuel Cooper, Unwin Hyman, UK, 1990 Antenna, Poland, 1/8/1992 Abitare, Italy, April 1996 Ptooch, Russia, December 1996 The Evening Standard, UK, 16 April 1997 Computer Active, UK 8-22 October 1998 Clam, France Spring 1999 We Love You, Futique, Audio CD/Book, Booth-Clibborn Editions/Candy Records, UK, 1998 Planet Stereo, vol 1 year 3, BMI, UK 1998 The Face, UK, November 1998 The Sunday Times, UK, 14 March 1999 Vogue, Italy, April 1999 Vogue, Japan, September 1999 R.A. Magazine, UK, Autumn 1999 The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century, Tanya Harrod, Yale , UK 1999 Very, USA, No.3 March 2000 GQ Magazine, UK, April 2000 Watch, UK, 03 2000 Pop, UK, No.1 2000 Space Magazine, The Guardian, UK, 21 September 2000
Film / Video / Television
1981 ‘SLICE OF LIFE’, video Taboo club screenings, London 1982 ‘POISED ON THE EDGE OF TASTE’ , film, The London Film Co-0p; ICA Cinematheque London; London International Video Festival 1983 Alter Image, tv, Channel 4 UK 1985 ‘Menschens Kinder’, tv, ZDF Germany 1985 The Oxford Roadshow, tv, BBC 2 UK 1987 ‘South of Watford’, tv, ITV (UK) 1992 ‘Londynskie Pracownie’, tv, Ch.1 Poland 1993 ‘THE BIG RIDDLE’, video, Gas club, London, The Pot, tv, New York Cable, USA 1995 Joan Quinn Show , tv, Los Angeles Cable, USA; ‘The Big Riddle’, video, European Media Art Festival, Germany 1997 ‘The Colour Eye’, tv, BBC1 UK 1999 ‘Private Property’, tv, ITV, UK; ‘SOMETIMES’, digital animation, Hackney Empire Appeal, Lux Centre, London 2000 Portobello Film & VIdeo Festival, London; Venice Short Film Festival, Italy.