Maggi Hambling

Talk Art

Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent

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🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Happy 80th birthday to Maggi Hambling, our guest this week! We meet Maggi in her studio to discuss her 6 decades of making painting and sculpture.

Maggi Hambling CBE 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 includes 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.

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

Visit: http://maggihambling.com/

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0:00.0	Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, wherever you are in the world.
0:08.7	I'm Russell Tovey.
0:09.5	And I'm Robert Dianne.
0:10.5	And this is Talkart.
0:11.4	Welcome to Talkart.
0:12.9	How are you today, Robert?
0:14.4	Today, Russell, I am feeling like a force of nature.
0:19.4	And not just any force of nature, an iconic force of nature.
0:23.9	Lovely.
0:24.2	One and only guest we have today is somebody that we're supposed to have interviewed many, many, many, many, many times.
0:31.3	And it's been put off until now.
0:33.7	And it's somebody we actually wanted really early on in the show.
0:37.4	We've both looked up to her for a long time.
0:39.7	I first knew of her work because of the Oscar Wilde sculpture.
0:44.0	Really?
0:44.3	Yeah, that's the first time I came across.
0:45.7	That was the first one that I knew of, which is kind of strange because actually she's, in many people's minds, known for painting, I guess.
0:53.8	But actually, the sculpture is such a big
0:55.7	part of how I understood her because of public sculpture. And the Oscar Wilde portrait,
1:02.2	A conversation with Oscar Wilde. Yeah, it was so profound to me because it's a coffin and it had
1:09.0	this kind of connection to death, obviously, but also to queer identity.
1:12.9	And because you and I were growing up in the 80s, we were both gay, it felt like this artist
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