Hambling biography
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Hambling biography
Maggi Hambling
British artist (born 1945)
Margaret J. Hambling[2]CBE (born 23 October 1945) 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.[3][4]
Early life and education
Maggi Hambling was born in Sudbury, Suffolk[5] to Barclays bank cashier and local politician Harry Smyth Leonard Hambling (1902–1998) and Marjorie (née Harris: 1907–1988).[6][7][8] She had two siblings, a sister, Ann, who was 11 years older, and a brother, Roger, nine years older than Hambling.
Her brother had wanted a younger brother but ignored the fact that his new sibling was female and taught her carpentry and "how to wring a chicken's neck." Hambling was close to her mother who taught b