Maggi Hambling on Life, Love and Death
Artist Maggi Hambling on Life, Love, and Death “Great Artists, composers, writers, they take one into that territory where life and death are together, I think that’s really the purpose of art" Maggi Hambling CBE. Amanda Blainey talks to Maggi Hambling who has established a reputation over the last four decades as one of Britain's most significant and controversial artists, a singular contemporary force whose work continues to move, seduce and challenge. We talk about How Maggi became an artist Keeping the memory of people alive through art Being terrified of her death Art as a therapy for grief Being a channel for truth in her work How to be vulnerable in your work Drawing her mother and father in their coffin’s Which one of her creations Maggi thinks she will be remembered for. Having whiskey at 6.00 pm Born in 1945 in Suffolk Hambling studied with Lett Haines and Cedric Morris, and then Ipswich, Camberwell and the Slade Schools of Art. In 1980 she became the First Artist in Residence at the National Gallery, London, and in 1995 won the Jerwood Painting Prize (with Patrick Caulfield). In 1998 her sculpture A conversation with Oscar Wilde was unveiled at Adelaide Street, London, facing Charing Cross Station. In 2003 Scallop, a sculpture to celebrate Benjamin Britten was unveiled at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and won the Marsh Award in 2005 for Excellence in Public Sculpture. Her work is represented in major collections internationally, and in the UK these include the British Museum, Tate, Victoria and Albert Museum, National Portrait Gallery and National Gallery. Podcast references Composer Benjamin Britten Henrietta Moraes Andy Murray Links Maggihambling.com Paintingsinhospitals.org.uk Marlboroughgallery.com