Duggie Fields was born in 1945 and brought up in the village
of Tidworth. He spent his youth in the countryside, moving to the outer suburbs
of London in his adolescence.
He studied architecture, briefly, at
Regent Street Polytechnic before going to Chelsea School of Art in 1964 where
he stayed for four years, before leaving with a scholarship that took him on
his first visit to the United States. As a student his work moved from Minimal,
Conceptual and Constructivist phases to a more hard-edge post-Pop
figuration.
By the middle of the 1970s his work
included many elements that were later defined as Post-Modernism. In 1983 in
Tokyo, sponsored by the Shiseido Corporation, a gallery was created especially
for his show, and the artist and his work were simultaneously featured in a
television, magazine, billboard and subway advertising campaign throughout the
country. He started working with digital media in the late 1990's describing
his work in progress as Maximalist.