# Steve Field (sculptor)

Stephen (Steve) Field RBSA (born 3 June 1954 in Saltash, Cornwall) is an English sculptor, muralist and mosaicist, active mainly in the West Midlands, particularly the Black Country, where a number of his works are on public display. He has been resident artist and public art adviser to Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, since 1988, and is a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, the Contemporary Glass Society and the British Association of Modern Mosaic. He coordinated Dudley's Millennium Sculpture Trail.
He studied at the University of Sheffield, earning a degree in architecture, and Wolverhampton Polytechnic, where he achieved a master's degree in fine art. He cites his influences as futurism and vorticism, the sculptor Walter Ritchie, his MPhil examiner David Harding, and the Mexican muralists.
In 1978 he painted a series of three murals on the gable ends of terraced houses at the eastern end of Heathfield Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, in conjunction with Paula Woof and Mark Renn. These murals lasted around 27 years before being overpainted by new murals. In 1982, he painted an internal mural at Frankley Community School, together with Woof and Renn. The trio worked as "The Mural Company" and were profiled in a 1982 Central Television documentary, "Round About". In June–July 1984, Field and Renn exhibited on murals, jointly, at Bilston Museum and Art Gallery.
Field, Woof, Renn, David Patten and Derek Jones worked jointly as the West Midlands Public Art Collective, which was active circa 1987.
He received the Royal Society of Arts 'Art for Architecture' Award in 1993 and an Arts and Business Award in 2005.
Field is married to fellow muralist Cathryn Ryall, with whom he has collaborated artistically. Field has also completed several collaborations with the sculptor John McKenna.

## Works

| Work | Location | Date | Type | Material | Dimensions | Coordinates (With links to map and aerial photo sources) | Owner | Notes |
| Birth of Pegasus | Brotherton Street, Pye Bank, Sheffield | 1977 (1977) | Mural | Dulux paint | | 53°23′41″N 1°27′50″W﻿ / ﻿53.39476°N 1.46397°W﻿ / 53.39476; -1.46397 | | Depicts Pegasus. Completed as part of Field's degree studies at Sheffield University. Paint donated by Dulux. The house on which this was painted was due for demolition in 2010. |
| Handsworth Triptych | Heathfield Road, Handsworth, Birmingham | 1978 (1978) | Mural | Emulsion paint | | 52°30′29″N 1°54′18″W﻿ / ﻿52.50802°N 1.90502°W﻿ / 52.50802; -1.90502 | | Set of three murals, depicting African wildlife. Since overpainted. |
| City of a Thousand Trades | Bell Street Passage, Birmingham | 1987 (1987) | Relief | fibreglass Pre-existing ceramic tiles, etched by sandblasting | | | | Made by the West Midlands Public Art Collective; commissioned by the then West Midlands County Council; lost |
| Industries of the Lye | Lye | 1989 (1989) | Mural | | | | | Removed 2010 (2010) |
| Cameo | Stourbridge bus interchange | 1994 (1994) | Mosaics and anamorphic columns | | | | Centro | Mosaics of a grey heron and a cockerel, based on cameo glass from nearby Broadfield House Glass Museum. |
| Sunbeam Car Panels | St. John's Retail Park, Wolverhampton | 1995 (1995) | Relief | Bronze | 3m by 2m | 52°34′47″N 2°07′38″W﻿ / ﻿52.57963°N 2.12734°W﻿ / 52.57963; -2.12734 (approx) | | (with John McKenna ARBS sculptor) |
| The Lone Rider | Penn Road, Blakenhall, Wolverhampton | 1996 (1996) | Sculpture | Hoptonwood limestone | | 52°34′33″N 2°08′09″W﻿ / ﻿52.57586°N 2.13580°W﻿ / 52.57586; -2.13580 | | Marks the site of the former AJS motorcycle factory. Carved by Robert Bowers, assisted by Michael Scheuermann. |
| Moonstones | Asda supermarket, Queslett Road, Great Barr | 1998 (1998) | Carving | Stone | | 52°33′09″N 1°54′32″W﻿ / ﻿52.5526°N 1.9088°W﻿ / 52.5526; -1.9088 | Asda | Nine stones, depicting members of the Lunar Society |
| Sleipnir | Hill, overlooking Wednesbury Great Western Street metro stop | 1998 (1998) | | | | 52°32′50″N 2°01′35″W﻿ / ﻿52.5471°N 2.0265°W﻿ / 52.5471; -2.0265 | | Depicting Sleipnir, Odin's mythical eight-legged horse |
| Maypole | Junction of Maypole Street and Windmill Bank, Wombourne | 1999 (1999) | Sculpture | Steel | | 52°32′09″N 2°11′09″W﻿ / ﻿52.53593°N 2.18584°W﻿ / 52.53593; -2.18584 | Wombourne Parish Council | Includes mosaic work by Cathryn Ryall. |
| Salamander in Flames | Flood Street Island, Dudley | 2000 (2000) | | | | 52°30′26″N 2°04′51″W﻿ / ﻿52.50720°N 2.08085°W﻿ / 52.50720; -2.08085 | | Part of Dudley Millennium Sculpture Trail. Lettering by Malcolm Sier. Fabrication by Apollo Engineering, Brierley Hill. Depicts a salamander, in reference to salamanders in metallurgy. |
| Fleet Air Arm Memorial | National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas | 2009 (2009) | | Granite, on a Portland stone base | | | | |
| Hovering Kestrel | Citadel Logistics Centre, Bilston | 2011 (2011) | | Stainless steel | | 52°34′06″N 2°03′19″W﻿ / ﻿52.56847°N 2.05526°W﻿ / 52.56847; -2.05526 | | (with John McKenna ARBS Sculptor) |
| Fons Juventis | Park Hall Academy, Castle Bromwich | 2011 (2011) | | Stainless steel | | | Park Hall Academy | Relief sculpture. Artist's sketch pictured |
| Civil war sculpture | Stevens Park, Wollescote | 2011 (2011) | | | | | | (with Graham Jones) Depicts Prince Rupert hiding from the Roundheads in the well at Wollescote Hall. |
| Anamorphic Portico | West Bromwich bus station | 1999 (1999)-2002 | Mosaic and anamorphic column | | | 52°31′02″N 1°59′42″W﻿ / ﻿52.51728°N 1.99499°W﻿ / 52.51728; -1.99499 | | Images loosely derived from David Christie Murray's book A Capful o' Nails. |
| Giant pictorial sundial | Measham Millennium Green | 2002 (2002) | Sundial | | | 52°42′13″N 1°30′32″W﻿ / ﻿52.70358°N 1.50878°W﻿ / 52.70358; -1.50878 | | Commemorating Joseph Wilkes. |