Maggi Hambling: Sea Sculpture, Paintings and Etchings
Marlborough Fine Art, 6 Albemarle Street, W1, until 5 June
Stephen Chambers: The Four Corners
Kings Place Gallery, 90 York Way, N1, until 11 June
Ceri Richards: Retrospective
Jonathan Clark & Co., 18 Park Walk, SW10, until 5 June
For the past eight years, the sea has been Maggi Hambling’s principal subject. She draws it regularly, makes portraits of it and now has turned to capturing it in bronze. As Norbert Lynton observed (in another context): ‘The idea of the sea as matter for sculpture should give us pause: not even [Medardo] Rosso, master sculptor of the momentary and the contextual, attempted anything like that.’ Hambling (born 1945) likes a challenge, and, in taking on the wave in solid three-dimensional form, she has certainly set herself that.
The show at the Marlborough consists of a dozen free-standing sculptures of waves curling, rearing, rolling, tossing seaweed and laughing at the moon.
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