Maggi Hambling CBE
(British b.1945)
British painter and sculptor. She was born in Hadleigh, Suffolk, and studied at the East Anglian School of Art (with Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines), 1960, Ipswich School of Art, 1962–4, Camberwell School of Art, 1964–7, and the Slade School, 1967–9. In 1980–81 she was the first artist-in-residence at the National Gallery, London. An energetic and colourful painter, she has also made prints and recently sculpture, notably a memorial to Oscar Wilde (1998, Adelaide Street, Trafalgar Square, London) and Scallop (2003), on the beach at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, to commemorate Benjamin Britten.