Dates
Nov 20 – Jan 25, 2026
Frankie Rossi Art and Sadie Coles HQ present a unique exhibition of painting and sculpture by Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas. Having met on 23 October 2000 - their shared birthday - at the legendary Colony Room Club in Soho, the two artists have been friends ever since. The exhibition runs across Sadie Coles HQ and Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert's galleries and asserts the contrasts as well as the deeper continuities between their respective bodies of work. In relation to her iconic series of Bunny sculptures, Lucas has observed: "On the one hand, it's about looking at the old things, and on the other, it's wanting to bring them right back to a state of freshness that has to have something to do with right now." For Hambling, too, the past can be reanimated in a work of art, with a painting expressing a kind of eternal present tense: "The one crucial thing that only painting can do is to make you feel as if you're there while it's being created - as if it's happening in front of you." Both artists make authentic use of that which surrounds them, including friends and lovers, and 'things close to hand.'