Tag: Maggi Hambling

London’s Statues of Women – book review

This exhaustive yet compact guide to London’s statues of women presents a motley crew, not just of queens and heroines, but of ‘normal’ women of all shapes and forms
Ro Robertson – interview: ‘The female shipbuilders of Sunderland have been a big inspiration’

At Sunderland’s Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, which stands beside the River Wear, is a new exhibition by Ro Robertson. We met them there to talk about the central installation and the other works in their first solo institutional show
Maggi Hambling: ‘The sea is sort of inside me now … [and] it’s as if she has become a wave’

Maggi Hambling’s new and highly personal installation, Time, in memory of her longtime partner, Tory Lawrence, opens the first arts and culture programme at Norfolk’s 18th-century Wolterton Hall as part of the exhibition Sea State
Maggi Hambling: Nightingale Night

In response to hearing the increasingly rare sound of a nightingale singing, Hambling has produced a new series of paintings in a striking palette of gold and silver laid over a dark black ground, evoking a mood, a feeling of…
The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain

With works from the 17th century to today, from Edwaert Collier to Duncan Grant and Maggi Hambling, this exhibition shows that still life, once seen as the lowliest of genres, has much to offer
Brian Dawn Chalkley: The Untold Depth of Savagery

Brian Dawn Chalkley’s alter ego, Dawn, has sketched a world of androgynous figures with guns in seaside landscapes, on to pillowcases, in a continuing exploration of gender and sexuality
The Quick & the Dead

This exhibition brings together the works of a formidable group of artists whose friendship has inspired some compelling portraits
Cedric Morris – portraits, places and flowers: three exhibitions

Three exhibitions capture a slice of 20th-century bohemia with portraits of people, places and, most vividly, flowers, by the award-winning artist-plantsman Cedric Morris
Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia

In an exhibition dominated by self-portraits and seascapes, Celia Paul demonstrates the virtues of subtlety and perseverance
Maggi Hambling: ‘Some paintings you’ve just got to cut up. There’s enough bad art in the world’

Maggi Hambling talks about the sea, life, death and love in her work, how, despite being nearly 70, she’s still learning about painting, and why sometimes a painting has to be killed off