About Maggi Hambling
Margaret J. Hambling is a British artist. Though principally a painter, her best-known public works are the sculptures A Conversation with Oscar Wilde and A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft in London, and the 4-metre-high steel Scallop on Aldeburgh beach. All three works have attracted controversy. Hambling is known for her intricate land and seascapes, including a celebrated series of North Sea paintings. In 1980, Hambling became the first artist in residence at the National Gallery, after which she produced a series of portraits of the comedian Max Wall. Hambling is known for painting the dead, including portraits of her parents and Henrietta Moraes in their coffins, saying that she "found it rather therapeutic to go on painting them after death". Hambling's 1998 outdoor sculpture at Charing Cross in central London as a memorial to dramatist Oscar Wilde, the first public monument to him outside his native Ireland.
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