Maggi Hambling in Conversation with Calvin Winner

45 minute talk with 15 minutes for questions

Join us for this special event with Maggi Hambling in conversation with Gainsborough’s House Executive Director, Calvin Winner. To co-inside with our latest exhibition Revealing Nature: the Art of Cedric Morris & Lett-Haines, Maggi will be recalling her time with the two 20th century artists at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at Benton end.

We are delighted to offer 10x free tickets to Students (17–25 with a valid ID card) for this evening talk. These are available on a first-come, first-served basis. To claim your space, please contact mail@gainsborough.org for ticket confirmation. We will request proof of ID when redeeming tickets at the event.

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About Maggi Hambling CBE

Maggi Hambling was born in Suffolk in 1945. She studied at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing from 1960 under Cedric Morris and Lett Haines, then at Ipswich School of Art, Camberwell, and finally the Slade School of Art, graduating in 1969.

In 1980 she was the First Artist in Residence at the National Gallery, London, and in 1995 she won the Jerwood Painting Prize (with Patrick Caulfield). Public sculpture include A conversation with Oscar Wilde, 1998 at Adelaide Street, London, facing Charing Cross Station and Scallop, 2003, a sculpture to celebrate Benjamin Britten, at Aldeburgh beach, Suffolk and for which the artist was awarded the Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture. A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft was unveiled in Newington Green, London in 2020.

Museum exhibitions include: Maggi Hambling, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1987, An Eye Through a Decade, Yale Center for British Art, Newhaven, Connecticut, 1991, A Matter of Life and Death, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 1997, George Always, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2009,  Maggi Hambling – The Wave, the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, 2010, War Requiem, Installation, SNAP 2013 purchased for Aldeburgh Music by the Monument Trust, Wall of Water, The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia, 2013,  Walls of Water, National Gallery, London 2014, War Requiem & Aftermath, Somerset House, London 2015, Touch, British Museum 2016/17, CAFA, Beijing.

Hambling’s work is held in public collections including at Tate, British Museum, CAFA, Beijing and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.