Duggie Fields

Douglas Arthur Peter Field (6 August 1945 – 7 March 2021 ), known as Duggie Fields, was a British artist who resided in Earls Court, London.

Douglas Arthur Peter Field (6 August 1945 – 7 March 2021 ), known as Duggie Fields, was a British artist who resided in Earls Court, London. ==Early life== Fields was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. His parents were Henry Field and his wife Edna (née Rosenthal). He grew up in the garrison town of Tidworth where his father owned a pharmacy, and later in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. He first came to notice in 1958, when he was 14, in the Summer Exhibition at the Bladon Gallery, Hurstbourne Tarrant, while he was attending the nearby Andover Grammar School. Fields briefly studied architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic before studying at the Chelsea School of Art for four years from 1964. He left with a scholarship that took him on his first visit to the United States, in 1968. ==Exhibitions== ===Selected solo exhibitions=== 1971: Hamet Gallery, London 1972: Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford 1975: Kinsman-Morrison Gallery, London 1979: Kyle Gallery, London 1980: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Midland Group, Nottingham; New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh; Roundhouse Gallery, London 1982: Spacex Gallery, Exeter; B2 Gallery, London 1983: Shiseido Exhibition, Tokyo 1987: Albemarle Gallery, London 1991: Rempire Gallery, New York 2000: Random Retrospective, DuggieFields.com 2008: Shifting Perspectives, Galleri Gl. Lejre, Denmark The Arts Council and University College London have examples of Fields' paintings in their collections. ===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 1986: 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, Amsterdam, St. Judes Gallery, London 1990: Universal Language, Rempire Gallery, New York 1993: Tranche d'Art Contemporain Anglais, Tutesaal, Luxembourg 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 Up & Co., New York ==References== ==External links==

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