Duggie Fields 'Big Tit' Print Available

Artist: Duggie Fields
Title: Big Tit
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 65 x 65 cm
Edition: 50
Price: $595

  

Duggie Fields was a British painter who fused pop art, punk graphics and digital aesthetics into a singular visual universe. Born in 1945 in the coastal town of Lyme Regis, he studied architecture and fine art at the University of London before settling in a Kensington flat that became his lifelong studio and evolving artwork. Fields first gained notice in the early seventies with bold canvases that paired hard edge geometry with figurative fragments, anticipating the postmodern sampling culture that would follow.

His palette was unashamedly bright, deploying candy pinks, acid greens and chrome yellows in rhythmic patterns that vibrated against jet black outlines. Figures appeared as silhouettes, doubled profiles or disembodied limbs, suggesting both fashion illustration and classical statuary. Throughout the eighties and nineties he embraced emerging computer software, scanning hand drawings and manipulating pixels to create layered compositions that questioned originality and authorship.

Fields exhibited internationally, from the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to galleries in Tokyo and New York, while his prints, rugs and scarves brought art into domestic spaces. Record sleeves for post punk bands and collaborations with fashion labels extended his reach beyond the white cube. Despite evolving technology, he continued to paint by hand, regarding the brush as a relational tool that humanised digital precision.

Now represented by The Wrong Shop, his estate releases archival prints and previously unseen works that celebrate his democratic spirit. Whether on canvas, carpet or screen, Fields legacy lies in proving that high art and pop culture can coexist vibrantly, inviting viewers to revel in colour, pattern and playful philosophical inquiry.