H I S T O R Y
DUGGIE FIELDS - 1991
Not that this was a topic when teenage Duggie Fields left his rural England home flanked by an army camp for London, architecture school, jazz, blues, and soul clubs. Finding nothing stranger than his remote home with tanks manoeuvering in the front yard, he joyfully dived into the London scene - sharing a flat with Syd Barrett (Pink Fioyd) and hanging out with Marc Bolan (T-Rex). Althogh not as groovy as the streets of London he switched to the Chelsea School of Art, looking at art history from a conceptual, philosophical, almost rhythmical, standpoint. Not shy, he enthusiastically integrated himself in the flow of it all, taking, using, and remodeling as he pleased, giving everything a new life form -- Duggie
USCHA POHL - Very april 2000
"I don't see the separation between art and life. Mondrian is just part of the environment. So other people's paintings are as much part of life as anything else. By putting them in my pictures, I am questioning how art relates to life." He lives in his art. Abstraction and figuration..... Fields is hostile to minimalism - that form of abstraction which reduces a composition to its bare, sometimes even blank, essentials. "Less is less, more or less." he argues.
IKON GALLERY - 1980
He started working with digital media in the late 1990's describing his work in progress as Maximalist.
BEN SEYMOUR , BRITART.COM - march 20001
The new media of the digital age allow 'infinite opportunities for new synthetic constructs', writes Fields. 'We are of necessity the Primitives of a New Sensibility, born in the Virtual Age.
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