Maggi Hambling was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. She is known for her intricate land and seascapes, including a series of North Sea paintings. Hambling’s 1998 outdoor sculpture at Charing Cross in central London as a memorial to dramatist Oscar Wilde.
About Maggi Hambling in brief
Maggi Hambling was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. She is known for her intricate land and seascapes, including a series of North Sea paintings. Hambling’s 1998 outdoor sculpture at Charing Cross in central London as a memorial to dramatist Oscar Wilde, the first public monument to him outside his native Ireland. Her work is spurred through anger—for the destruction of the planet, about politics, for social issues. In 2013, she exhibited at Snape during the Aldeburgh Festival, and a solo exhibition was held at the Hermitage, St Petersburg. In 1980 Hambling became the first artist in residence at the National Gallery. Her wider body of work is held in many public collections including the British Museum, Tate Collection, National Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The four-metre cast stainless steel Scallop sculpture is in the form of the fractured halves of a scallop shell, with the quotation from Benjamin Britten’s opera: ‘I hear those voices that will not be drowned’ Hambling is a patron of Paintings in Hospitals, a charity that provides art for health and social care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
She has taught at Wimbledon School of Art and at the Royal College of Art in London. She was awarded a CBE for her services to art in 2010 and is a member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the Royal Society of Painters, Sculptors and Builders, among others. She lives in London with her husband and two children. She also has a son and a daughter who live in Suffolk, and has a daughter and a son-in-law in New York. She works as a freelance artist and teaches at the University of London.
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