Maggi HamblingMaggi Hambling CBE (born 1945) lives and works in London and Suffolk. Hambling studied with Lett Haines and Cedric Morris, and then at Ipswich, Camberwell and the Slade Schools of Art. In 1980, she became the first Artist-in- Residence at the Nationa 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, a sculpture to celebrate Benjamin Britten was unveiled at Aldeburgh, Suffolk titled Scallop and in 2005 Maggi was awarded the Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture for Scallop. 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. Recent museum shows include: Maggi Hambling: Walls of Water at the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia (2013) and the National Gallery, London (2014), War Requiem & Aftermath at Somerset House (2015), Maggi Hambling: Touch, a retrospective of works on paper at the British Museum (2016), The Quick and the Dead: Hambling, Horsley, Lucas, Simmons, Teller at Hastings Contemporary (2018), Maggi Hambling: For Beauty Is Nothing but the Beginning of Terror at both CAFA Museum, Beijing and Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2019). Read More Read Less