POPPY FIELD (b.1993)
Poppy is a London-based figurative sculptor working across public monuments, private commissions, and studio works.
Her sculptures are modelled in clay and cast in bronze, combining classical training with a painterly approach to form, likeness, and gesture.
Her practice moves between likeness, imagination and public memory, from intimate portrait busts and site-specific commissions to studio figures shaped by stillness, mythology and the body.
BIOGRAPHY
Poppy read History of Art at The Courtauld, where she specialised in monuments and memory, before training in sculpture at The Florence Academy of Art, where she was awarded the Graduate in Residence Prize for Sculpture.
In 2023, her bronze monuments of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip are installed on the South Porch façade of the Royal Albert Hall. Her portrait commission for the Giardino Botanico André Heller in Gardone Riviera will be unveiled this summer, and she is currently working on a life-size private commission for a site in St. Lucia.
Poppy is co-author of Drawing in Space: Theory and Practice of Figurative Sculpture. She is a Council Member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors, where she has developed an education programme that welcomed over 100 local schoolchildren to the Society’s annual exhibition in April 2026.
“Stories and bodies have always seemed intertwined to me. When sculpting, I try to capture likeness through an iconography of moments: the intangible quality someone might call an essence, presence, or soul.”
Drawing in Space Theory & Practice of Figurative Sculpture by Robert Bodem and Poppy Field
On sculpting Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip for the Royal Albert Hall’s 150th anniversary.
Click here to listen to Poppy Field and Robert Bodem in conversation with sculptor and art historian Jason Arkles on The Sculptor’s Funeral, discussing Drawing in Space, the sculptural tradition behind it, and the collaboration that shaped this major new book on figurative sculpture.
SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS
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Commissions
Royal Albert Hall, London
Giardino Botanico André Heller, Brescia -
Education
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
The Florence Academy of Art, Florence -
Publication
Drawing in Space: Theory and Practice of Figurative Sculpture
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Community
Society of Portrait Sculptors Council Member, focusing on education
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2012-13, 2016-18 The Florence Academy of Art, Advanced Sculpture (Diploma)
2013-16 The Courtauld Institute of Art, BA (Hons) History of Art
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2026
Art of Welcoming, Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, London - until 8th September
FACE2026, The Society of Portrait Sculptors, The Garrison Chapel, Chelsea Barracks, London2025
Guildford House Open, Guildford House Gallery, Guildford
Summer Exhibition, The Gallery at Green & Stone, London
Beyond the Prize, Mall Galleries, London
FACE2025, The Society of Portrait Sculptors, The Garrison Chapel, Chelsea Barracks, London
2024
Summer Exhibition, The Gallery at Green & Stone, London
FACE2024, 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
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
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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
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2026
“Poppy Field in Conversation with Deborah Pocock LVO, CEO of Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, Garrad
2025
“Beyond Likeness”, Annual Lecture, The Society of Portrait Sculptors, England
“Behind the Statues”, Sculptors’ Walk & Talk at the Royal Albert Hall in support of QEST
2024
“Monuments in Motion: Balancing Tradition and Innovation in Public Sculpture”, in Commissioning and Erecting Public Sculpture: From Inspiration to Installation and Beyond, The Public Statues and Sculpture Association, England
“Poppy Field in Conversation with Claire Mander, Founder and Director of theCOLAB”, Courtauld Patrons Studio Visit, England
2021
“Edgar Degas’ Dancer Looking at the Sole of her Right Foot”, Friends and Patrons Celebration, The Courtauld Gallery, England
“RSA Open Studios – Artist Talk with Kristina Chan, Poppy Field, and Richard Goldsworthy, led by Kenny Hunter”, Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture, Scotland
2019
“Bronze”, The Florence Academy of Art, Italy
“The Veiled Christ”, The Florence Academy of Art, Italy
2018
“Camille Claudel”, The Florence Academy of Art, Italy
“Michelangelo Buonarroti”, The Florence Academy of Art, Italy
2017
“The Art of Memory”, The Florence Academy of Art, Italy
“Masaccio in Florence”, The Rome Art Program, Italy
“Donatello in Florence”, The Rome Art Program, Italy
2016
“Benvenuto Cellini”, The Florence Academy of Art, Italy
2015
“Rodin and Bodem: The Importance of Cultural Biography”, The Representational Art Conference, Ventura, California, USA
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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.
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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