Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas | Frieze Masters Podcast
The first episode, On Rebellion, is now available, presented in collaboration with dunhill
The first episode, On Rebellion, is now available, presented in collaboration with dunhill
In 2005, British artists Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas met at the historic Colony Room Club in London’s Soho. There, they discovered that they shared the same irreverent and unapologetic attitude – and even the same birthday. In On Rebellion, chaired by Louisa Buck, these two British artists discuss their influences, their reactions to rules and expectations, facing up to mortality and being each other’s muse.
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I think great art creates somewhere where life and death cohabit, where life and death come together – Maggi Hambling
Maggi Hambling is a British painter and sculptor. Hambling’s latest series of paintings, Maelstrom, is on show at Frankie Rossi Art Projects, London, 5 October – 24 November. Sarah Lucas is a British artist whose practice spans sculpture, photography and installation. Tate Britain, London, hosts the major exhibition Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas, 28 September 2023 – 14 January 2024. Louisa Buck is a writer and broadcaster on contemporary art.
Find works discussed in this episode here:
Maggi Hambling
Frankie Rossi Art Projects in Affiliation with Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, Frieze Masters 2023. Photo: Michael Adair
Maggi Hambling’s Studio Door, Suffolk, 2023. Courtesy the artist; photo: Douglas Atfield
Maggi Hambling, Henrietta, 1999, oil on canvas, 26 × 31 cm. Courtesy the artist
Maggi Hambling, Maelstrom X, 2022, oil on canvas, 1.8 × 2.1 m. Photo: Douglas Atfield; courtesy Frankie Rossi Art Projects Ltd
Maggi Hambling, Maelstrom XI, 2022, oil on canvas, 1.8 × 2.1 m. Photo: Douglas Atfield; courtesy Frankie Rossi Art Projects Ltd
Maggi Hambling, Maelstrom XIII, 2022, oil on canvas, 1.8 × 2.1 m. Photo: Douglas Atfield; courtesy Frankie Rossi Art Projects Ltd
Maggi Hambling, Maelstrom XV, 2022, oil on canvas, 1.8 × 2.1 m. Photo: Douglas Atfield; courtesy Frankie Rossi Art Projects Ltd
Maggi Hambling, Portrait of the artist Sarah Lucas III, oil on canvas, 2013 1.5 × 1.2 m. Courtesy the artist; photo: Douglas Atfield
Maggi Hambling, Henrietta’s Mouth, 2000, oil on canvas, 26 × 21 cm. Courtesy the artist
George, a skull belonging to Maggi Hambling. Courtesy the artist
Maggi Hambling, Study from life, my mother dead, 1988, graphite on paper, 20 × 30 cm. Photo: Douglas Atfield
Maggi Hambling, Father in hospital, 22nd January 1998, graphite on paper, 22 × 30 cm. Photo: Douglas Atfield
Cast of Horse Sculpture by Gainsborough, belonging to Maggi Hambling. Courtesy the artist and Frankie Rossi Art Projects Ltd
Sarah Lucas
Sarah Lucas, GOOD THOUGHTS - BAD THOUGHTS, 2023, tights, wire, wool, boots, boxing gloves, acrylic paint, chair, bin, 2.4 × 1 × 1.5 m. Credit: © Sarah Lucas; courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London; photo: Katie Morrison
Installation view, HAPPY GAS, Tate Britain, 28 September 2023 – 14 January 2024, 2023. Credit: © Sarah Lucas; courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London; photo: Katie Morrison
Installation view, HAPPY GAS, Tate Britain, 28 September 2023 – 14 January 2024, 2023. Credit: © Sarah Lucas; courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London; photo: Katie Morrison
Sarah Lucas, Maggi, 2018, coat hanger, lightbulbs, steel wire, electric cable, toilet bowl 180 × 36 × 40 cm. Credit: © Sarah Lucas; courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London; photo: Robert Glowacki
Sarah Lucas, FAT DORIS, 2023, tights, wire, wool, shoes, armchair, breeze blocks 109 × 87 × 108 cm. Credit: © Sarah Lucas; courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London; photo: Katie Morrison
Sarah Lucas, SUGAR, 2020, tights, wire, wool, bulldog clips, shoes, acrylic paint, metal chair 93 × 63 × 82 cm. Credit: © Sarah Lucas; courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London; photo: Robert Glowacki
Sarah Lucas, Bunny Gets Snookered #13, 2019, tights, plastic, wood, chrome chair, clamp, kapok and wire 117 × 50 × 80 cm. Credit: © Sarah Lucas; courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London and Gladstone Gallery; photo: David N Regen
Sarah Lucas, Bunny, 1997, tan tights, stockings, plywood chair, clamp, kapok and wire 102 × 90 × 64 cm. Credit: © Sarah Lucas. Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London
Sarah Lucas, GOOD THOUGHTS - BAD THOUGHTS, 2023, tights, wire, wool, boots, boxing gloves, acrylic paint, chair, bin 2.4 × 1 × 1.5 m. Credit: © Sarah Lucas. Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Katie Morrison
About Frieze Masters Podcast
The Frieze Masters Podcast is now available, bringing you our annual programme of live talks – the Frieze Masters Talks programme – curated by the Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Dr Nicholas Cullinan. These conversations between leading artists, writers, museum directors and curators all reflect the ethos of the Frieze Masters fair: looking at the past with a contemporary gaze.
The Frieze Masters Talks programme and the Frieze Masters Podcast are brought to you by Frieze in collaboration with dunhill, the foremost British luxury menswear house.
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This podcast is a Reduced Listening production. The producer was Silvia Malnati and sound engineer was Andy Fell.
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