Publications
Book: Queens of Bohemia and Other Miss-fits, published by History Press, May 2024
Book: Tales from the Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia, published by Unbound, March 2020
Ebook: Photographers of the Colony Room Club, Kindle Edition, September 2022
Book: Factual Nonsense: The Art and Death of Joshua Compston, June 2013
Books
Robert Fraser’s Groovy Arts Club Band edited by David Stevenson, Gazelli Art House, 2019
In Loving Memory of Work by Craig Oldham, Unified Theory of Everything, 2015
100 Painters of Tomorrow (critics choice) by Kurt Bees, Thames and Hudson, 2014
500 Paintings by Sandy Nairne, National Portrait Gallery, 2011
No Fun Without U by Jeremy Cooper, 2000
Articles, reviews and catalogues
THE SENSATIONALISTS: The bad girls & bad boys of British Art, 27th September 2022 – 27th September 2023, BBC iPlayer
Mu Magazine Issue 6, 2022
Mu Magazine Issue 1, 2021
The Colony Room to be reborn as Park Lane Watering Hole, The Times, Monday 4 July 2022
Ephraim Castle, Daily Mail, 24 June 2021
Saturday Review, The Times 17 July 2021
The Iconic bar where nobody knew your name, Daily Express, 19 July 2021
Interview | “The party that never stops”: Sarah Lucas on The Colony Room Club, Soho, with Darren Coffield
Atticus, The Sunday Times, 20 September 2020
From Francis Bacon to Tracey Emin: Soho’s historic Colony Room Club – in pictures, The Guardian, 13 September 2020
Mystery of the Art Treasures that Vanished from Soho Drinking Den, The Observer, 13 September 2020
The Sweet Smell of Failure TLS, Times Literary Supplement, 31 July 2020
TMS, The Times, Thursday, July 23 2020
Seventy Years in a Colourful Trade, London Review of Books, 16 July 2020
A Club for Great Wits…, Mail on Sunday, 7 June 2020
Soho’s Lost Post-War Living Room, Fitzrovia News, Summer 2020
Tales from The Colony Room: Soho’s most notorious drinking den, remembered, GQ Magazine, 25 April 2020
Saturday Review, The Times, 25 April 2020
Atticus, The Sunday Times, 19 April 2020
Misfits Floating on a Sea of Booze, Daily Mail, 17 April 2020
Atticus, The Sunday Times, 12 April 2020
Books, Sunday Times Culture Section, 12 April 2020
Mentors and Monsters, Soho Clarion, Spring 2020
Ephraim Castle, The Daily Mail, 18 April 2018
The Londoner, Evening Standard, 3 April 2018
Darren Coffield Interview, State Magazine, May 2016
Is it or isn’t it? The Bacon mystery grows, Daily Telegraph, 19 April 2016
Darren Coffield and Francis Bacon, Robert Elms BBC Radio, London, 12 April 2016
S-P-E-C-T-R-U-M Herrick gallery, Fresh Paint Magazine, May 2016
Darren Coffield and Francis Bacon, Fresh Paint Magazine Issue 11, April 2016
i-Spy, State Magazine, December 2013
Adele adds to pop art collection, The Sun, 27 December 2013
Why it’s all relative for Adele, The Daily Mail, 19 December 2013
Frieze Magazine, December 2013
Factual nonsense and fantastic mythologies, The Art Newspaper, October 2013
A London exhibition charts the art and death of Joshua Compston, Wallpaper* Magazine, June 25, 2013
Guess Who, Garage Magazine, April 2013
BBC News – In pictures: Topsy turvy world of celebrity, April 5, 2013
From Kate’s smiling eyebrows to Harry Styles’ staring chin: The topsy turvy faces of celebrity, The Independent, April 5, 2013
The Colony Room Club, 1948-2008 — History of bohemian Soho, Author: Sophie Parkin, 2012 (book)
SCOPE for the best, IDentity Magazine, April 2012
SCOPE for the best, IDentity Magazine, September 2011
Liverpool Biennial, BBC News North West, September 19, 2010
The Threadneedle Prize for painting and sculpture, August 27, 2010
Nice painting. I’ll take two., Metro, June 24, 2010
BP Portrait Prize 2010 catalogue, National Portrait Gallery
City Diary, The Times, July 29 and 31, 2009
Succulent Legume, May 2009
Segodnya, Today Newspaper, Ukraine, October 10, 2008
Graphic illustrations of personal and political themes, Tribune, October 3, 2008
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008, Exhibition catalogue, September 2008
The Colony – A Documentary Preview, Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (DVD), BFI, August 2008
Darren Coffield Slikar Pobunjenik (Insurgent Artist), Jutarnji List (Croatian National Newspaper), August 2, 2008
Verduta, Exhibition catalogue, April 2008
Radio Peckham, April 7, 2008
Let’s not carp about Ivan, Evening Standard, September 24, 2007
Art make-over for Peckham, BBC News, Transmission: August 6, 2007 (TV)
Vervan Loind’ Eden, Exhibition catalogue, July 2007
Channel 4 Dispatches, Transmission: July 2007 (TV)
Out of the picture, East London Advertiser, May 3, 2007
The Shoreditch Map, February 2007, issue 91
Artist and a right Charlie, Evening Standard, December 8, 2006
‘Gorgeous George’ brush with destiny, East London Advertiser, November 16, 2006
‘Gorgeous George’ sits pretty with Blair and Bush, The Guardian GT Magazine, November 8, 2006
Portrait of ‘George’ (Galloway), Free at Last TV, July 2006 (TV)
Emel Magazine, May 2006, page 97
IDEA, 2005 (catalogue)
Fake London Genius // Board Meeting, 2004 (catalogue)
John Russell Taylor, Drawn from lives, The Times, July 9, 2003
Brian Sewell, Canvas, brush, paint…, Evening Standard, June 20, 2003
Bunny Smedley, ART: Still very much alive, thanks, Electric Review, June 25, 2003
Metro, June 16, 2003
BP Portrait Award 2003 catalogue, National Portrait Gallery
Large Magazine, June 2003
Caroline Roux, Aspects of me, The Guardian Magazine, April 26, 2003
Large Magazine, March 2003
Catherine Milner, What pushed Joshua Compston over the edge?, Tatler Magazine, July 2000
Death of a Curator, Illuminations Production, BBC2, November 1999 (TV)
Silk and Metal-Morphoses, Evening Standard, March 29, 1999
Artists of the Colony Room Club, 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1998 (catalogue)