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Wednesday 10 September 2008, The Times - John Moores Painting Prize. The 25th winner of the prize will be announced next week. Seven leading artists, including Maggi Hambling, reveal the secrets of their work in The Times.

Francis Bacon Henrietta Moraes 1966

Tuesday 9 September 2008 - Maggi Hambling was interviewed about the Francis Bacon exhibition at Tate Britain on BBC Radio 4's 'Front Row', the live magazine programme on the world of arts, literature, film, media and music.

Scallop

Maggi Hambling was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 'Broadcast House' programme at 9am on Sunday 20th July concerning her paintings & sculpture inspired by the North Sea.

Maggi Hambling's 'Scallop' plus interview with the artist was featured on television on The One Show, BBC1 Monday 10th March at 7pm.

Battle of Britten rages on the Beach

It was designed to honour the composer. But after a four-year campaign of attacks, the sculpture's future is now in doubt. Click article's title to view article.

Caroline Davies
Sunday January 6, 2008
The Observer

'Lunch With the FT: Maggi Hambling'
To read this interview over lunch with The Financial Times' journalist Rebecca Rose (published 8th January 2008. Click the title of article above to read.

'A Life In Pictures' an interview with Maggi Hambling by Lynn Barber in The Observer 2nd December 2007.
To view please click here: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2220326,00.html

The Spectator 10th February 2007, 'Time is eating away at one's life', article by Andrew Lambirth
"I’m talking to Maggi Hambling in the downstairs studio of her south London home, because her beautifully light upstairs painting space is being given a new coat of white paint, the first for years. She always says that if she ever comes to sell this house the agents can market it as having ‘four reception rooms, two bathrooms and a ballroom. No bedrooms’. It’s a misleading description of the Hambling lifestyle: work is the order of the day, not partying, and the ballroom is of course the main studio. Hambling is not out on the tiles every night, but is more likely to retire to bed early in order to rise before dawn. She got into the habit when she was obsessively painting the sunrise in the 1980s; these days, her subject is primarily the North Sea, where it meets that bit of the Suffolk coastline Hambling has known all her life, around Aldeburgh and Thorpeness.

She owns a cottage near Saxmundham set in a large expanse of water meadow. Whenever she’s there, she gets up early to draw the sea, before anyone else is about. ‘When I began the sea pictures in November 2003, I would just look at what was in front of me. Empty myself and try to take the subject in, and then go back and work from memory......."

4th February 2007: Sunday Times Magazine, Sue Fox interviewed Maggi Hambling for the regular feature 'A Life In A Day'. MH: "When I painted George Melly, he said I would come round the corner of the canvas like an escaped mink. He could tell if it was going well because otherwise I'd stamp my foot in fury. I'd have loved to have painted Christ. I'd have loved the chance to paint Oscar Wilde...."

1st February 2007: Country Life magazine said of Maggi Hambling: * 'No Straight Lines' at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.....confirms her place as a draughtsman of distinction, and should not be missed.'*

In rave reviews for her recent sell-out exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art and the monograph MAGGI HAMBLING THE WORKS and Conversations with Andrew Lambirth (published January 2006, Unicorn Press), Maggi Hambling was said to have “succeeded where Leonardo failed” (Brian Sewell, Evening Standard) and was referred to as “the female Bacon” (The Art Newspaper).

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