About

Poppy Field is a British artist based in London (b.1993). She studied at The Courtauld (2016) and The Florence Academy of Art (2018), where she was awarded the Graduate in Residence Prize for Sculpture. In 2019, Poppy's first life-size sculpture was commissioned in bronze. In 2021, Poppy won her first public commission: two-metre bronze monuments of Her Majesty The Queen and Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh for the Royal Albert Hall's South Porch façade. King Charles III and Queen Camilla unveiled these in November 2023.

Poppy sculpts both commissioned works and studio pieces, combining traditional techniques with a painterly application of clay and expressive gestures to bring her sculptures to life. Often inspired by quiet moments in a search for identity, belonging, and connection, Poppy layers clay and conversations to create vibrant surfaces, capturing the intangible essence of her subjects as she builds her sculptures from the inside out.

“I grew up surrounded by anatomical illustrations, visiting patients on hospital wards to chat and take their history. Stories and bodies have always seemed intertwined to me, and I sculpt from life whenever possible. I have found that capturing that intangible thing, a kind of iconography of moments that someone else might call an essence, presence, or spirit, requires as much listening as modelling of form.”

Poppy is the co-author of Drawing in Space; Theory and Practice of Figurative Sculpture.

2012-13, 2016-18 The Florence Academy of Art, Advanced Sculpture (Diploma)
2013-16 The Courtauld Institute of Art, BA (Hons) History of Art
2024
FACE2024, The Society of Portrait Sculptors, The Garrison Chapel, Chelsea Barracks, London - forthcoming
RBA Rising Stars Exhibition, The Royal Over-Seas League, London - forthcoming
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
The Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair, London
Permanent Collection, Linden Hall Studio, Kent
2023
Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio, Kent
Chelsea A to Z, 340 King’s Road, London
VS1 x East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
FACE2023, The Society of Portrait Sculptors, The Garrison Chapel, Chelsea Barracks, London
Chelsea Art Society, Chelsea Town Hall, London
The Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair, London
2022
Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio, Kent
Chelsea in Colour, 340 King’s Road, London
FACE2022, The Society of Portrait Sculptors, The Garrison Chapel, Chelsea Barracks, London
RBA Rising Stars Exhibition, The Royal Over-Seas League, London
Chelsea Art Society, Chelsea Town Hall, London
2021
Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio, Kent
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Chelsea Art Society, 340 Kings Road, London
FACE2021, The Society of Portrait Sculptors, online
Letting Us In, The Florence Academy of Art, online
OPEN ART 2021, RSA Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, online
2020
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, online
Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio, Kent
Recent Graduates, The Florence Academy of Art, online
Coming Home, Aberdeen Artists Society, online
FACE2020, The Society of Portrait Sculptors, online
Inner World, Boomer Gallery, Aldgate Studios, London
After Greed Became Form, White Rectangle, online
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2019
FACE2019, The Society of Portrait Sculptors, La Galleria Pall Mall, London
Chelsea Art Society Annual Exhibition, Chelsea Town Hall, London
From the Studio Floor, St Barnabas, Cambridge
2018
Chelsea Art Society Annual Exhibition, Chelsea Town Hall, London
FACE2018, The Society of Portrait Sculptors, La Galleria Pall Mall, London
2017
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
RBA Rising Stars Exhibition, The Royal Over-Seas League, London
2023
The Heatherley’s Commendation at FACE2023, The Society of Portrait Sculptors
Hesketh Hubbard Drawing Bursary, Hesketh Hubbard Art Society
2022
BODY and PLACE Residency, theCoLAB
The Tiranti Commendation at FACE2022, The Society of Portrait Sculptors
Heatherley’s Award, Chelsea Art Society
2021
CAS Sculpture Prize, Chelsea Art Society
2019
The Tiranti Prize at FACE2019, The Society of Portrait Sculptors
Fully funded Residency, Château Orquevaux
2018
Graduate in Residence, The Florence Academy of Art
2017
Study Abroad Studentship, Leverhulme Trust
Work Scholarship, The Florence Academy of Art
2016
QEST Finnis Scott Foundation Scholar, Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust
John Hayes Travel Award (Beijing and Shanghai), The Courtauld Institute of Art
2015
The Alpine Fellowship in association with Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
2015-16
Head of Exhibition, Artificial Realities, 12th Edition of the East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Featuring commissioned installations by Marco Maggi and Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva & loans by Daniel Buren, Tracey Emin, Jenny Holzer, Antony Gormley, Laure Prouvost, Rachel Whiteread, and Edmund de Waal among others.
2022-cont Figura, Dutch Academy of Figurative Sculpture - Guest Instructor
2017-cont Private Tutor (sculpture)
2016-19 The Florence Academy of Art – Art History Lecturer
2017 Rome Art Program – Teaching Assistant and Visiting Art Historian