Frankie Rossi Art and Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert are proud to present an exhibition devoted to the latest series of work by the contemporary British artist Maggi Hambling (b.1945).
Maelstrom comprises a series of paintings made upon Hambling's return to the studio following a near-fatal heart attack in New York in March 2022, two days prior to an exhibition of her work opening there. During her six-week stay in a Manhattan hospital, the artist’s six-decade daily practice came to a halt. On the second day of her return to the UK, the Maelstrom series began. The resulting paintings are testaments to the tentative, determined resumption of her daily practice – and to the trauma of recovery. Having been closer to death than ever before, Hambling returned to her art with renewed urgency and force. The paintings manifest intense landscapes of experience – each is a portrait of where the heart and mind go when the body is compromised – a realm at once mysterious and challenging, sublime and intimate. Hambling’s Maelstrom paintings affirm, ultimately, what it means to be alive.
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Hambling's work is also presented at Frieze Masters (11 - 15 October 2023). In a new programme, Studio, curated by Sheena Wagstaff (Chair of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, until 2022), works of from the maelstrom series are displayed alongside objects and archival images accumulated by Hambling over decades. Its focus is the artist's place of making, where the spark of invention becomes manifest as an object, throwing light on Hambling's creative process and the impetus behind her most recent work. -
