The death of the artist Duggie Fields on 7 March aged 75, following a long battle with cancer, deprives London—and beyond—of one of its most stylish and original figures, loved by many, including me.
Duggie Fields, who died yesterday, was one of the new figurative painters that defined Britain in the 1970s and 80s. THEM is a new exhibition examining the work of an important group of artists who ...
In Marilyn, Fields transforms that iconic photograph of Marilyn Monroe holding her billowing white dress over an air vent into a headless cartoon. In Marilyn Bacon, she shares the scene with a Francis ...
Before Weird New Britain there was Weird Old Britain and it didn’t come much weirder than the cultural scene of the 1980’s. That low decade began promisingly. A line of malcontents could be found ...
Duggie Fields, hard-working painter at the heart of the 1970s fashion scene who shared a flat with Syd Barrett – obituary Known as much for his personal flamboyance as his gaudy paintings, he later ...
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Them, as a name for an art movement, didn’t catch on. Perhaps because unlike Impressionism, Cubism or Surrealism, it didn’t describe what the artists did. This is understandable. Them [they] are hard ...
Novelist Louise Welsh meets artist Duggie Fields in a recreation of his London flat and studio, which is now on show in Glasgow. Show more The writer Louise Welsh meets the artist Duggie Fields.
Don Paterson meets Thomas Adès. Elizabeth Llewellyn meets Amma Asante Hossein Amini meets Conor McPherson Katherine Parkinson meets Roxana Halls Louise lives in Glasgow and is the author of eight ...