Biography
| EDUCATION | ||
| 1962-1964 | BFA Fine Art | Ispwich School of Art, Ispwich |
| 1964-1967 | MFA Fine Art | Camberwell School of Art, London |
| 1967-1969 | DPHIL Fine Art | Slade School of Fine Art, London |
| ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2019 | Maggi Hambling: For Beauty is Nothing but the Beginning of Terror | CAFA Art Museum, Beijing |
| 2018 | New Portraits | Marlborough Fine Art, London |
| 2017 | Edge | Marlborough Fine Art, London |
| 2016 | Maggi Hambling, Touch: Works on Paper | The British Museum, London |
| 2015 | Maggi Hambling: War Requiem and Aftermath | King’s College, London |
| 2014 | Maggi Hambling: Walls of Water | The National Gallery, London |
| 2013 | Wall of Water | The Hermitage, St. Petersburg |
| 2010 | Maggi Hambling: The Wave | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
| 2010 | Maggi Hambling: Sea Sculpture – paintings and etchings | Marlborough Fine Art, London |
| 2009 | George Always - Portraits of George Melly by Maggi Hambling | Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
| 2009 | Maggi Hambling: North Sea Paintings, New works on paper | The Gallery, Snape Maltings |
| 2007 | Maggi Hambling: No Straight Lines | Octagon Gallery, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
| 2007 | Maggi Hambling: Waves | Marlborough Fine Art, London |
| 2007 | Maggi Hambling Waves Breaking – paintings | Northumbria University Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne |
| 2006 | Maggi Hambling: Portraits of People and the Sea | Marlborough Fine Art, London |
| 2004 | Maggi Hambling: Thorpeness Sluice and the North Sea Waves | Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh |
| 2003 | North Sea Paintings | Aldeburgh Festival Exhibition, Suffolk |
| 2001 | Good Friday- Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, 1965-2001 | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |
| 2001 | Henrietta Moraes by Maggi Hambling, Drawings, Paintings and Bronzes | Marlborough Fine Art, London |
| 2001 | Father- Drawings and Paintings | Morley College Gallery, London |
| 1998 | A Conversation with Oscar Wilde | Marlborough Fine Art, London |
| 1997 | Maggi Hambling - A Matter of Life and Death | Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire |
| 1997 | A Statue for Oscar Wilde | National Portrait Gallery, London |
| 1995 | Sculpture in Bronze 1993-95 | Marlborough Fine Art, London |
| 1993-1994 | Towards Laughter, Maggi Hambling | Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland |
| 1993 | Dragon Morning, Works in Clay | CCA Galleries, Tilford |
| 1992 | The Jemma Series, Monotypes | Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London |
| 1991 | An Eye Through a Decade | Yale Center for British Art, Newhaven, Connecticut |
| 1990 | New Paintings 1989-90 | Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London |
| 1988 | Maggi Hambling | Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 1988 | Maggi Hambling: Moments of the Sun | Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol |
| 1987 | Maggi Hambling | Serpentine Gallery, London |
| 1983 | Pictures of Max Wall | National Portrait Gallery, London |
| 1981 | National Gallery | National Gallery, London |
| 1977 | New Oil Paintings | Warehouse Gallery, London |
| 1973 | Paintings and Drawings | Morley Gallery, London |
| 1967 | Paintings and Drawings | Hadleigh Gallery, Suffolk |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2018-2019 | The Quick & the Dead | Jerwood Gallery, Hastings |
| 2015 | A Summer Exhibition | Marlborough Fine Art, London |
| 2006 | Drawing Inspiration | Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal |
| 2004 | Summer Exhibition | Marlborough Fine Art. London |
| 2001 | Out of Line, Drawings from the Arts Council Collection | Travelling Exhibition |
| 2001 | London International Small Print Biennale | Morley Gallery, London |
| 2001 | Behind the Mask | The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle |
| 2001 | About Face – Get your head around Sculpture | Croydon Clock Tower, London |
| 2001 | The Enduring Image | Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal |
| 2000-2001 | Painting the Century – 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000 | National Portrait Gallery, London |
| 1998 | Suffolk - A Female Focus | Ipswich Museum, Suffolk |
| 1997 | British Figurative Art, Part One: Painting - The Human Figure | Flowers East, London |
| 1997 | Animals in Art | Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston |
| 1996 | Head First - Portraits from the Arts Council Collection | City Art Gallery, Leicester |
| 1996 | Artaid '98 | Edinburgh City Art Centre |
| 1994 | Here and Now | Serpentine Gallery, London |
| 1993 | Images of Christ | St. Paul's Cathedral, London |
| 1993 | The Portrait Now | National Portrait Gallery, London |
| 1992 | Eighty Years of Collecting | The Contemporary Art Society, Hayward Gallery, London |
| 1992 | Life into Paint: British Figurative Painting of the 20th Century | British Council, Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
| 1991 | Modern Painters | Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester |
| 1990 | Nine Contemporary Painters | City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol |
| 1989 | Within These Shores, A Selection of Works from the Chantrey Bequest 1883- 1985 | Sheffield City Art Gallery, Sheffield |
| 1989 | Salute to Turner | Thomas Agnew & Sons, London |
| 1989 | Picturing People-British Figurative Art Since 1945 | British Council, Malaya |
| 1988 | Artists and National Parks | Victoria and Albert Museum, London and tour |
| 1986 | Visual Aid for Band Aid | Royal Academy, London |
| 1986 | Artist and Model | Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester |
| 1986 | In Close Up | National Portrait Gallery, London |
| 1985 | A Singular Vision | Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter |
| 1985 | In Their Circumstances | Usher Hall, Lincoln |
| 1985 | Human Interest, 50 Years of British Art About People | Cornerhouse, Manchester |
| 1984 | The Hard-Won Image | Tate Gallery, London |
| 1983 | Pintura Britanic Contemporanea | Museo Municipal, Madrid |
| 1983 | 3 Decades of Artists | Royal Academy, London |
| 1983 | Britain Salutes New York | Marlborough Gallery, New York |
| 1982 | Private Views | Arts Council, touring exhibition, United Kingdom |
| 1981 | The Subjective Eye | Midland Group, Nottingham |
| 1980 | British Art, 1940-80 | Hayward Gallery, London |
| 1979 | Narrative Paintings | Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, |
| 1979 | The British Art Show | Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield |
| 1978 | 6 British Artists | British Council Drawing Exhibition, Yugoslavia |
| 1976 | The Human Clay | Hayward Gallery, London, |
| 1974 | Critic's Choice | Tooths Gallery, London |
| 1974 | British Painting '74 | Hayward Gallery, London |
| 1973 | Artist's Market | Warehouse Gallery, London |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | ||
| 2016 | Maggi Hambling, Touch: Works on Paper | The British Museum, exh.cat. (London: Lund Humphries, 2016) |
| 2015 | James Cahill and Maggi Hambling, War Requiem and Aftermath | (London: Unicorn Press, 2015) |
| 2001 | John Berger, Maggi and Henrietta | (London: Bloomsbury, 2001) |
| 2000 | Robin Gibson and Norbert Lynton, Painting the Century, 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000 | National Gallery, exh.cat. (London: National Gallery Publications, 2000) |
| 1997 | Martin Gayford, British Figurative Art, Part One: Painting - The Human Figure | Flowers East exh.cat. (London: Flowers Gallery Publications, 1997) |
| 1991 | Mel Gooding, Maggi Hambling- An Eye Through a Decade | (Newhaven: Yale Center for British Art, 1991) |
| 1988 | Barry Barker, Moments of the Sun | Arnolfini Gallery, exh.cat. (Bristol: Arnolfini Gallery, 1988) |
| 1984 | Richard Morphet, The Hard-Won Image | Tate Gallery, exh.cat. (London: Tate Publishing, 1984) |
| COLLECTIONS | ||
| The National Portrait Gallery Collection, London | ||
| The British Museum Collection, London | ||
| The Tate Collection, London | ||
| The Gulbekian Collection, Lisbon | ||
| The New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge | ||
Press Release | 13 Paintings Inspired by Nick Cave
| Emma Bennett, Daniel P. Carter, Nadine Feinson, Maggi Hambling, Florian Heinke, Sam Jackson, James Johnston, Susanne Kühn, Concha Martinez Barreto, George Shaw, Dominic Shepherd, George Stamatakis, Rose Wylie |
| Curated by Angela Koulakoglou |
| PRIVATE VIEW: Thursday 16 January 2020 6:30-8:30pm |
| EXHIBITION DATES: Friday 17 January – Saturday 8 February 2020 |
| CHARLIE SMITH LONDON is delighted to invite curator and collector Angela Koulakoglou to present Words that transform, vibrate and glow: 13 paintings inspired by the lyrics of Nick Cave. The exhibition was conceived over a year ago and its timing is prescient; Cave’s latest album, Ghosteen, was released with a hallucinatory painting as its cover in October 2019. Unprecedented in their visuality and striking in their ability to conjure apocalyptic landscapes, all the songs on Ghosteen are visions. As Cave embarks on a world tour in 2020, a conversation between his lyrics and painting becomes all the more relevant. ‘I can’t write a song that I cannot see’, Cave once stated in an interview. Having started his career as a painter, he soon turned to song writing and over several decades has produced a body of lyrics unparalleled in their consistent richness, unforgettable imagery, and unique combinations of darkness, humour, despair and hope. Drawn from songs written throughout his career, from the famed Peaky Blinders signature tune Red Right Hand to the early and more obscure Release the Bats, the thirteen paintings included in this exhibition are testimony to the fertile but often unexplored territory that lies between the arts. Three of the artists present are musicians: James Johnston was in fact a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds between 2003-2008; Emma Bennett is the bassist for Dear Thief; and Daniel P. Carter, who also hosts BBC Radio 1’s Rock Show, performs with metal group Krokodil. The participating artists represent different generations, backgrounds, and ethnicities and they approach their art in different ways. Each one has ‘seen’ their painting in Cave’s lyrics in a reverse trajectory to that of the poet. Connecting word to world, the paintings in this exhibition occupy the space in between, opening up new imaginative possibilities. Deeply personal, unexpected and moving, poetry meets image in these thirteen powerful paintings that stretch our sensory and spiritual boundaries. Please contact gallery for images and further information |