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Art Gallery: Maggi Hambling - Sea Sculptures and Paintings

Selections of Hambling's new wave of sculpture

by hilary.whitneySaturday, 1 May 2010

'Wave Relief' by Maggi Hambling

All images by Douglas Atfield

To accompany theartsdesk Q&A with artist Maggi Hambling by Hilary Whitney, this is a selection of pieces from two new exhibitions of her latest work opening in London and Cambridge. Maggi Hambling: New Sea Sculptures at Marlborough Fine Art coincides with The Wave, an exhibition of Hambling’s wave paintings at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. These paintings, sculptures, etchings and reliefs (a new departure for Hambling) energetically capture the restless motion of the sea and demonstrate Hambling’s increasingly bold way of working.

Click on the images to view them in a slideshow.

Laughing wave with moon
Laughing wave
Wave relief 17
Wave relief 02
Wave rolling
Wave rising
March wave rolling - detail
Wave tunnel

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Read theartsdesk Q&A with Maggi Hambling
New Sea Sculpture at Marlborough Fine Art, London until 5 June
The Wave: Paintings by Maggi Hambling at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge until 8 August
Maggi Hambling's official website

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This sea, the widest of mouths, roaring or laughing, is always seductive. Life and death mysteriously co-exist in the timeless rhythm of the waves. I seek to distil their action as they rise and dissolve, poised to crash.

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