He has exhibited at venues ranging from the Courtauld Institute, Somerset House to the National Portrait Gallery, London.
[2] In the early 1990s, Coffield worked with Joshua Compston on the formation of Factual Nonsense — the centre of the emerging YBA scene.
Coffield has painted portraits of Molly Parkin, George Galloway,[5] and Peter Tatchell.
Coffield has painted Arthur Scargill using coal dust as a medium, and made protest art prints relating to The Battle of Orgreave.
In the Paradox Portraits series, Coffield inverts well known faces, in "an exploration of celebrity, identity and perception".