Maggi Hambling

Maggi Hambling CBE (born 23 October 1945 in Sudbury, Suffolk^[1]) is a British contemporarypainter and sculptor. Perhaps her best-known public works are a sculpture for Oscar Wilde in central London and Scallop, a 4-metre-high steel sculpture on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten. Both works have attracted a great degree of controversy.^[2]

National Gallery

'Maggi Hambling: Walls of Water’ opens next week on 26 November:http://bit.ly/1xO7V4K
We will also be hosting a Twitter Q&A with Maggi. Start submitting your questions using the hashtag ‪#‎NGAskMaggi‬, and she will answer as many as she can on 25 November from 1:30pm until 2:30pm. Make sure to follow us @NationalGallery to see her replies. Maggi Hambling was our very first Artist in Residence in 1980. She now returns to the Gallery with a new series of dramatic, intense paintings inspired by crashing waves.

‘Maggi Hambling: Walls of Water’ opens today: http://bit.ly/1z1Q2O9
Our very first Artist in Residence Maggi Hambling returns to the Gallery with a series of vast paintings inspired by waves crashing onto the sea wall at Southwold, Suffolk.

Hambling's Scallop (2003) stands on the north end of Aldeburgh beach. It is a tribute to Benjamin Britten and is pierced with the words "I hear those voices that will not be drowned" from his opera Peter Grimes.

Hambling, A Conversation with Oscar Wilde (1998), green granite and bronze, Adelaide Street, near Trafalgar Square, London