Duggie Fields [SEP] place of birth
Duggie Fields
Duggie Fields born Tidworth, Wiltshire, 1945 is a British artist, resident in Earls Court, London.
Biography.
Duggie Fields grew up in the English countryside. He first came to notice in 1958, when he was 14, in the Summer Exhibition at the Bladon Gallery, Hurstbourne Tarrant. He was studying at the nearby Andover Grammar School.
Fields briefly studied architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic before embarking studies in 1964 at the Chelsea School of Art for four years. He left with a scholarship
Japan.
In 2013, he was taken to Los Angeles by artist and benefactor Amanda Eliasch with fashion designer Pam Hogg for Opfashart, which Eliasch had put together for "Britweek".
From 2013 to 2015, Fields worked for the preservation of Earls Court Exhibition Centre designed by architect Howard Crane and the surrounding area. The campaign was not successful but made people aware of the general decline of architecture in the London area.
2016 Duggie Fields was celebrated by the British Film Institute FLARE with a collection of his videos