Darren Coffield

Darren Coffield was born in London in 1969. He studied at Goldsmiths College, Camberwell School of Art and the Slade School of Art in London where he received his Bachelor of Fine Art in 1993.

Coffield has exhibited widely in the company of many leading artists including Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Patrick Caulfield and Gilbert and George at venues ranging from the Courtauld Institute, Somerset House to Voloshin Museum, Crimea. His work can be found in collections around the world. In the early nineties, Coffield worked with Joshua Compston on the formation of Factual Nonsense – the centre of the emerging YBA scene.

Critic David Sylvester, known for his championing of his close friends Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon described Darren Coffield as 'Another of those magicians who (probably without knowing) knows how to imbue pieces of matter with light'.

In 2014, Darren Coffield was specially selected by the jurors of 100 Painters of Tomorrow as an artist who has made a significant contribution to the painting scene today. In 2022 he appeared in BBC documentary, Sensationalists: The Bad Girls and Boys of British Art. Coffield is also the author of two cult books: Factual Nonsense: The Art and death of Joshua Compston and Tales from the Colony Room: Soho's Lost Bohemia.