Maggi Hambling UK, b. 1945
"Laughing is a very serious business. It’s the only thing that makes life possible. I love the chaos. You can’t present any kind of image to the world when you’re really laughing: the face is in chaos, and it’s almost a sexual thing too. The total abandonment."
Hambling has enjoyed numerous solo exhibitions since 1980, including two solo exhibitions at The National Gallery in London, in 1981 and 2014 respectively; solo exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery in 1983 and 2009. Other significant exhibitions have included The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (1981), the Yorkshire Sculpture park (1997), Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal (2007), The Lowry, Salford (2009), Walker Arts Gallery, Liverpool (2009), The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2010), Winchester Cathedral (2013), The Hermitage, St. Petersburg (2013), Somerset House (2015), The British Museum, London (2016) The Jerwood Gallery (2018) and CAFA Art Museum, Beijing (2019).
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Maggi HamblingEdge XXV , 2021oil paint on canvas213 x 91.4 cm
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Maggi HamblingWall of Water V, 2011oil paint on canvas198 x 226 cm
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Maggi HamblingWall of water VI, 2011oil paint on canvas198 x 226 cm
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Maggi HamblingWall of Water XVII, 2022oil paint on canvas182.8 x 213 cm
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Maggi HamblingWild North Sea, 2022oil paint on canvas91 x 170 cm
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Maggi HamblingSelf Potrait, 2018-2019oil paint on canvas152.4 x 243.8 cm
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Maggi HamblingSelf Portrait , 2019oil paint on canvas182.8 x 213.3 cm
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Maggi HamblingLett II, 2018oil paint on canvas91.4 x 61 cm
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Maggi HamblingWatching, 2021oil paint on canvas53.3 x 43.2 cm
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Maggi HamblingEdge IV, 2015-2016oil paint on canvas91.4 x 121.9 cm
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Maggi HamblingEdge XXIV, 2021oil paint on canvas213 x 91.4 cm
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Maggi HamblingEdge XXIX, 2021oil paint on canvas152.4 x 121.9 cm
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Maggi HamblingAftermath (Parasite), 2013-2014bronze primed and hand colouredh 38 x w 15 x d 16 cm
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Maggi HamblingAftermath (Politician), 2013-2014bronze primed and hand colouredh 38 x w 21 x d 22 cm
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Maggi HamblingAftermath (After Mexico), 2013-2014bronze primed and hand colouredh 32 x w 23 x d 16 cm
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Maggi HamblingAftermath (2090), 2013-2014bronze primed and hand colouredh 38 x w 21 x d 22 cm
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Maggi Hambling - Aftermath
18 May - 19 Jul 2024Maggi Hambling (b. 1945) is one of Europe’s leading contemporary artists, celebrated both for her paintings of people, the sea, melting polar ice-caps, environmental destruction and war zones, and for...Read more -
Maggi Hambling - On the edge
Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy | 29 Sep 2023 - 17 Dec 2024Ettore Fico Museum, in collaboration with Thomas Brambilla Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of the acclaimed British contemporary artist Maggi Hambling. On the edge is Hambling’s first museum...Read more -
Maggi Hambling - Portraits
9 Oct - 27 Nov 2021Maggi Hambling (b. 1945) is one of Europe’s leading contemporary figurative artists, celebrated both for her paintings of people, the sea, melting polar ice-caps, environmental destruction and was zones, and...Read more
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Marco Cingolani, Maggi Hambling, Klaus Rinke "VIS-À-VIS. Ritratti Moderni e Contemporanei"
Musei Civici, Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata, Italy June 28, 2024From June 28, 2024, to January 12, 2025, the new exhibition 'Vis-à-vis. Ritratti moderni e contemporanei', curated by Elsa Barbieri, Massimo Francucci, and Giuliana Pascucci,...Read more -
La versione di Maggi Hambling: l’opera della controversa artista britannica al Museo Ettore Fico di Torino
REVIEW | JULIET December 5, 2023 Read more -
Maggi Hambling - Frieze Masters "Studio"
Interview & Video | FRIEZE MAGAZINE October 6, 2023 Read more -
Maggi Hambling - On the Edge
Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy September 28, 2023Ettore Fico Museum, in collaboration with Thomas Brambilla Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of the acclaimed British contemporary artist Maggi Hambling. On the...Read more -
At home with Maggi Hambling, the original ‘bad girl’ of British art
Article | CNN STYLE August 4, 2023 Read more -
Maggi Hambling: origins
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk, UK June 17, 2023Maggi Hambling's latest exhibition, Origins, is held at Gainsborough’s House in Suffolk, and is something of a homecoming. It was within the walls of Thomas...Read more -
Maggi Hambling group show "Big Woman"
First Site, Colchester, UK February 11, 2023Curated by one of Britain’s most significant contemporary artists – Sarah Lucas – and featuring the work of over twenty high-profile female artists, the BIG...Read more -
Maggi Hambling - Real Time
Marlborough New York, NYC, USA May 10, 2022Embracing the social and political situations in which her paintings are produced, and the vacillations between figurative and abstract readings, her new paintings rhetorically perform...Read more -
Maggi Hambling - Real Time
Review | The Brooklyn Rail April 8, 2022 Read more -
Maggi Hambling joins the Whitehot Podcast
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art February 22, 2022 Read more -
Maggi Hambling - A sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
Newington Green, London, UK November 10, 2020Mary Wollstonecraft, the 'mother of feminism,' commemorated by Maggi Hambling's sculpture in North London. MORE INFO HERE !Read more -
Maggi Hambling - 2020
Marlborough Gallery, London, UK October 15, 2020This exhibition of recent paintings coincides with Hambling’s 75th Birthday, marking both a moment of looking in - a self-reckoning - as much as a...Read more -
Maggi Hambling: Texture? They are layers of failure!
Article | Financial Times September 25, 2020 Read more -
Maggi Hambling: For Beauty is Nothing but the Beginning of Terror
CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China March 8, 2019In a period when many artists try to be sexy, and only end up being commercial and competitive, she’s the real thing. —John Berger The...Read more -
Maggi Hambling – 'Every portrait is like a love story'
VIDEO Interview | Tate Shots - Tate Gallery August 3, 2018TATE SHOTS We visited the Suffolk-born artist, Maggi Hambling, in her home studio as she is now working of a series of laughing portraits....Read more -
Maggi Hambling - Edge
Malrborough Gallery, London, UK March 2, 2017Hambling's work offers a counterweight to the careful irony and self-conscious allusion of much contemporary art, demanding a direct and unmediated encounter with the viewer....Read more -
Maggi Hambling : The Surprisingly Lively Home of a Controversial Artist
Article | New York Times March 2, 2017 Read more -
Maggi Hambling: Touch: works on paper
The British Museum, London September 8, 2016‘'I believe the subject chooses the artist, not vice versa, and that subject must then be in charge during the act of drawing in order...Read more -
Maggi Hambling "War Requiem & Aftermath"
Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing, King's College, London, UK May 31, 2015The exhibition War Requiem & Aftermath, held in the Inigo Rooms from March-May 2015, was a survey of new and recent work by British artist...Read more -
Maggi Hambling "Walls of Water"
National Gallery, London, UK November 26, 2014Maggi Hambling, the first National Gallery Artist in Residence (1980-81), has established a reputation over the last four decades as one of Britain’s most significant...Read more