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The postmodernist visionary passed away “peacefully” earlier this week
March 09, 2021
Pioneering postmodernist artist
Duggie Fields has passed away aged 75. The news was announced on social media by his niece, who confirmed that Fields had passed “peacefully” on Sunday with “his older brother Howard by his side”.
Fields had been creating art from his famed Earls Court flat for over five decades. He emerged as one of Britain’s most influential figurative painters during the 1970s, and was part of the radical queer art collective “Them” alongside Derek Jarman, Kevin Whitney, Luciana Martinez, and John Dewe-Mathews.
His paintings were bright, bold and idiosyncratic. Fields took pop cultural icons – like Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse and The Droogs from