Maelstrom

Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert presents Maggi Hambling's Maelstrom series. The exhibition, presented with Frankie Rossi Art, comprises a series of paintings made upon the artist's return to the studio following a near-fatal heart attack in 2022. The resulting paintings are testaments to the tentative, determined resumption of her daily practice and to the trauma of recovery. 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 challenging, sublime, and intimate. 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. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue including essays by Sheena Wagstaff and Eleanor Nairne.

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