The Aldeburgh Scallop

"...in a period when many artists try to be sexy, and only end up being commercial and competitive, she's the real thing. For she knows backwards how the core of desire is vulnerability." - John Berger

Maggi Hambling traces her love of the sea back to earliest childhood and records how this lifelong passion has fired her work, culminating in the constrction of a 15ft high, six-and-a-half ton stainless steel sculpture rising out of the shingle on Aldeburgh beach. Children love it. Lovers love it, Those paying tribute to lost loved ones gather around it. And there are those who would wish it melted down or carted away.

The artist, and those nearest the action, tell the fascinating inside story of its conception, official acceptance and construction, and the unholy row that erupted after it was finaly unveiled.

With a foreword by Stephen Fry.

Price

Hardback £20