He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, with notable solo shows being held at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (1980), Shiseido Contemporary, Tokyo (1983), Rempire, New York (1991) and Galleri Gi Ljere, Denmark (2008). His works are also held in public collections including the Arts Council and University College London. The avant garde Comme Des Garcons international fashion brand used him as a style inspiration in their 20007/2008 men's collections, and in 2016 he was celebrated by the British Film Institute FLARE with a presentation of his video collage sound works.
“Sometime in the late 1950’s I discovered my connection with the act of painting. By the mid’60’s I was at Chelsea Art School, the King’s Road in the heady days of Swinging London, having moved from the country to the city, after a brief encounter with Architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic where I encountered amongst others the nascent Pink Floyd. By the early 1970’s I found myself sharing a flat with founder and former lead singer Syd Barrett, the home/studio I’ve 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 display placards from my parent’s pharmacy storeroom where I spent many hours playing as a child, when I was featured on similar products myself in Japan, and likewise discarded. In the ‘90s I discovered the digital, and my workspace expanded out of the confines of my studio into the virtual world, making imagery and now sound always the main occupation of my time. Hours spent chasing line, form, pattern, rhythm, word, colour and content, solitarily, obsessively, demonically, joyously, neurotically, irrationally, hopelessly, devotedly, delightedly.”
Duggie Fields lives and works in London, England.