SORT OF SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY DIARY. PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON MOBILE PHONE BY
EARLS COURT BASED ARTIST DUGGIE FIELDS. FROM JUST AROUND THE CORNER IN THE LOCAL STREETS HE HAS WALKED OFTEN THROUGH THE YEARS OF LIVING THERE, THEY HAVE EXPANDED WITH TRAVEL ACROSS LONDON AND BACK AGAIN, AND AGAIN.
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Duggie Fields’s dayglo post-pop paintings are instantly recognizable. Despite his concern with the identity-dissolving impact of mass media on the contemporary psyche, Fields manages to sustain a coherent signature style that is as flamboyantly dysfunctional as …
Combining elements from disparate cultural and historical vocabularies, Fields’ paintings look like stained glass windows for some cathedral of modern Media. The artist’s manic imagination throws up deranged icon paintings, casual violence erupting out of ritual and kitsch. Promiscuous and dangerously volatile, Field’s multiverse is a place where ballroom dancing and comic book mutilation intersect. Nothing in Western culture is safe from Fields, for as the artist argues in his ‘MAXIMALi
