British Painter Maggi Hambling

Video: In The Studio With Maggi Hambling directed by Mike Wyeld. – Controversial British artist Maggi Hambling CBE discusses and reveals new work in this short documentary filmed in her London studio.

Thanks Mike! for telling me about your short film In The Studio With Maggi Hambling. 😉 / Birthe Havmoeller

Maggie Hambling

Maggi Hambling (born 1945) is a British painter, sculptor and queer woman. Maggi graduated from the Slade School of Art in 1969 and in 1980 she became the first Artist in Residence at the National Gallery in London. She is a figurative painter and has painted numerous portraits among others portraits of openly gay people such as Deriek Jarman, George Melly, Stephen Fry and Quentin Crisp. The Guardian writes that she ‘has six works in the National Portrait Gallery and others in the National Gallery, where her portrait of a warder has hung on permanent display since Hambling was the first artist-in-residence there in 1980’. She renown for her sculptures: A Convesation with Oscar Wilde (1998), a memorial to Oscar Wild in Central London and for Scallop (2003), a 4 metre high steel sculpture on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten. In 2005 she received Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture for Scallop. Maggi Hambling is based in London, UK.