Margaret J. Hambling is a British artist. Though principally a painter her best-known public works are the sculptures A Conversation with Oscar Wilde and A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft in London, and the 4-metre-high steel Scallop on Aldeburgh beach. All three works have attracted controversy.
Hambling in 2006
A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, central London.
Hambling's Scallop stands on the north end of Aldeburgh beach.
A Conversation with Oscar Wilde
A Conversation with Oscar Wilde is an outdoor sculpture by Maggi Hambling in central London dedicated to Oscar Wilde. Unveiled in 1998, it takes the form of a bench-like green granite sarcophagus, with a bust of Wilde emerging from the upper end, with a hand clasping a cigarette.
The memorial in 2019
The inscription quoting from Lady Windermere's Fan