Maggi Hambling's Habit of Subverting Expectations | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 43

[@minarima]

I met Maggie while working as an art technician in London a couple of years ago. I remember for the two weeks I was hanging her work she would constantly correct me and tell me I was doing it all wrong, or that I was taking too long... I knew I was doing everything right so I just genuinely thought that she didn't like me as a human being. Then on the final day of the hang she approached me and snuck a £50 in my pocket and said she was really impressed with the work I'd done. Although I was a little jarred by her at first, I really warmed to her towards the end, and I began to see through the iron lady 'act' that she puts on around people in public (and during the interviews in this video). Don't be fooled, although she comes across as standoffish at first she has a heart of gold! I was also involved in delivering her work back to her house/studio in south London. She was so nice to us both, and gave us a personal tour of her house, including showing us a copy of the preface to dorian grey signed by Oscar Wilde and given to her by none other than Stephen Fry, which was hung in her kitchen (only Maggie would hang such a thing in her kitchen) Great artist and lovely human being.

[@kirstycollins4237]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@Johnconno]

Was she pissed?

[@crism3lo]

Armors are for self protection.

[@gaelhillyardcreative]

I just love her. She's not the only one who hangs important things in what some may consider unusual places. My friend hangs their coat of arms in the laundry. I think the kitchen is a super place to keep the preface though; it becomes part of the fabric of her life and not just a relic of it.

[@Johnconno]

@Hillyard. She's a fucking drunken, old, smelly, mediocre pest.

[@lisengel2498]

I love the qoate “Everything has to be an experiment or it is dead” - lovely video thank you for sharing

[@PushkinAbbott1997]

that is exactly what i took away from it haha! Found it to be the common thread amongst incredible artists and craftsmen.

[@jamie2990]

Fascinating from start to finish. Thank you!

[@lisengel2498]

I adore Maggi and absolutely agree with her attitude of keeping alive and refusing to repeat herself but continue to be curious and working so intensewith being totally present and open to experience

[@MeseretGezahagn-jc3cq]

You are gentle artist man !!

[@hattontom86]

happy to see an exhibition by this fabulous artist

[@MeseretGezahagn-jc3cq]

Very amazing program

[@judilynn9569]

I love her method and her works.

[@nickfanzo]

A terrific maker of art.

[@johnbeesales1164]

LOVE THIS ARTIST AND HER WORKS!

[@devonseamoor]

Maggie's words: "You're doing something positive while inside there's a great hurting..." YES ❤

[@olusha]

Beautiful video ; strong artist- thank you; truly inspirational and fabulous

[@sebastianmelmoth685]

Her drawings are exceptional.

[@a.p.344]

Ala Panfiliuk Artmajer

[@nehaakhadmal139]

She is a brilliant Artist ❤️🔥 just love it 🔥🔥🔥

[@tonicopereira5318]

by far my favorite artist!

[@kirstycollins4237]

I love her work!

[@keatsgipsy9991]

Absolutely marvellous

[@devonseamoor]

Great work, Maggi Hambling makes me laugh in appreciation. Such freedom of expression. I see in this "iron lady" who knows so well how she wants to arrange her world and thinking for herself, a witch of a kind that loves to throw people off guard in almost a shock-therapeutic manner to put an end to complacency. Especially in Britain, I believe it's just what the doctor orders. After living almost 5 years on that island, I completely understand why it needs its portion of highly eccentric and maverick residents. Not that it helps much, though, hahaha. Most of British population is a hard stoney nut to crack when it's about inner change due to a collective hypnosis, always correcting those who are at risk of waking up in real time.

[@mariodarmanin59]

Some of her work had me in tears.

[@pippadavies4579]

wonderful creative madness love herxxx

[@ronin478]

Powerful, stunning and raw emotion experiencing her art! Amazing!

[@plantsforlife1120]

BOMB!!!!!!! OF AN ARTIST!!!!!!!!!!!

[@sr.millero6704]

Hats off, Lady ...

[@saltthewizard5937]

i fell in love after that first sentence

[@Phungi9]

She is amazing.

[@farginargle]

Thank you thank you thank you!!! I was unaquainted with Maggie Hambling. I have never fallen so hard so fast. One second and I am a devotee. P. S.: Can I put "not an ist' on a t shirt? Just for me of course!!!

[@thehappinesstree8089]

Same. Isn't she fascinating?

[@Detelinka68]

Amazing artist, love her! Thanks for the great, inspirational video! :)

[@davidmayhew4818]

Moving. Smart. Love her.

[@Doppe1ganger]

I expected crap, and i got one of the best artists i've ever seen. I would so love to talk to this beautiful person for an entire day, even if her art were never to be shown, she'd be incredibly interesting. Ofcourse i'm not alone in wanting to talk to her, and the idea of so many people talking to her likely horrifies her and i appreciate that. Still would really want to though

[@MeseretGezahagn-jc3cq]

Very attractive and funny to follow up.

[@juliearvaniti7336]

The portrait of her dad made me cry in 2''

[@andreamaiorana8490]

Maggi Hambling you’re amazing!

[@fournierveronique6466]

A great real artiste!!

[@HeyNins]

I friggin love her.

[@sufficientgrace9921]

Nins....ME TOO ! I 'get' her.

[@ruthneff6298]

What a character!! Would love to have a pint with this lady!!

[@hawkieandcawkie5188]

she drinks whiskey but i bet she would have a pint of that with you ... she keeps it in the glove compartment of her car ... ha ha

[@jamesjoelholmes4541]

Would love to have a pint with Maggi!

[@jamesjoelholmes4541]

agreed!!

[@Johnconno]

@@jamesjoelholmes4541 She stinks of booze and stale urine.

[@alanking1461]

Inspirational

[@marytang8888]

For once I would like to hear the artist speak instead of listening to comments by other people. Frankly I couldn't care less what THEY think. Thank goodness for the fast forward button.

[@jamesjoelholmes4541]

Right?!? The commercial aspect of this piece is infuriating!

[@xwarx1000]

Great Artist very original, many artists copied her style.

[@rosaniribeirosoares1605]

Que artista excepcional!

[@EmmaMorgan09]

Loved this. Thank you x

[@bananathumbs1415]

I really enjoyed this!

[@ljubomirscepanovic1905]

many thanks..

[@ajy84]

I love her idiosyncratic personality. It matches her work. Although different artists typically try to stand out rather pretentiously, she has an original disposition played out by her many interesting years lived. 😑

[@AnthonyParsons-yg7xp]

I love nothing about her...! 😡

[@wrxnglove]

@@AnthonyParsons-yg7xp what makes you say that?

[@lisengel2498]

Wonderfull art - all of it - so surprisingly intense and totally alive filled with multidimensionalities of felt meaning and beauty totally transcendens dualisme of figurative-abstract,, realism-imagined, I wish It could be shown in Denmark

[@agatarek_pl]

thank you, Maggie is my new discovery, I am in love

[@alisonedwards7712]

Yeah deep thinking passionate wild and Oscar I saw him recently in London blow me away

[@1Ma9iN8tive]

She’s magnificent

[@DeeperConnection]

she is adorable!! reminds me of my Grandmother!!! :)

[@tanyaleef5138]

Fantastic intense drawing techniques ,emotional connections portraying wide human psychological states

[@RobertaFierro-mc1ub]

Shes always evolving.

[@jhoan_roa]

she is adorable!! reminds me of Jhoan Roa the venezuelan artist

[@NanciesArt11]

The Museum has been collecting her Art for 30 years?! WoW!

[@WisdominQuotes10000]

love maggie!

[@Doppe1ganger]

I'd love to have her as my grandma

[@MinaParkArt]

Love it

[@davidlouiswall7211]

You rock Maggi

[@APRIL2862]

Fantastic looking Ink Blots. like getting excited going to the loo!

[@Vexxet]

awesome

[@AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw]

Maggi Hambling is our greatest living painter...

[@alexandertsiolkovski5848]

She reminds me of Bilbo Baggins.

[@themanwhoknewtoomuch6667]

My sniffout meter is simple. If a corporate or mainstream media promotes someone and KZbin pushes it down our throat, it will be hard pass. If a some loner artist is creating some truly original art that no one pays attention to with 10 views or some sanctaomnious British musuem gallery doesn't house --- I am in. The fact that a random person like her gets full gallery due to cognizance is what makes art world and its pretentious critics irritating. Case in point about another popular artist: Yayoi Kusama. The more corporate and mainstream shoves it, the most repulsive I find.

[@jamesjoelholmes4541]

Really enjoyed this portrait of one of my favorite artists. Wish you didn't put the commercial at the front of it Bloomberg.

[@jamesjoelholmes4541]

I wish I could have lunch with Maggi Hambling. She may be the greatest artist of our age.

[@trahapace150]

Be careful not to throw out your back with all that reaching

[@sicfith6006]

I immediately like her.

[@joycejoy7651]

unconscious beauty x

[@devonseamoor]

The beauty of the unconscious surfacing, I guess that's what you mean?

[@durango-CODEBUILDER]

wow. Hadnt heard of her before this

[@dd52161]

why if it isn't my old friend from the shire, bilbo baggins.

[@christianegonbarnthaler1426]

super art

[@romeaffair]

Can we have a show with Maggie and Miriam Margoyles blowing up old power stations please? That would be amazing.

[@Pottymoon]

Ha ha ha!

[@jamesjoelholmes4541]

agreed!!

[@joshuatolodxi179]

Bilbo Baggins out here like a renaissance artist.

[@ritazita1111]

Her larger 'epic' painting remind me of some of Anselm Kiefer's 'epic' work, just not as gigantic in scale.

[@apikmin]

🧡

[@cashcatmusic]

Reminds me of Da Vinci: the line work - Cedric, February 8, 1982

[@EmmaMorgan09]

CASHCAT Music yes reminds me of da Vinci. Inspirational

[@EmmaMorgan09]

CASHCAT Music I love Cedric

[@SunRobin]

I googled this linework but couldn't find it... can u send it to me

[@hawkieandcawkie5188]

Yes She is a 'terrible beauty' .But a Beauty none the less.

[@tapiripirikahu4422]

Haha I love her x

[@tm13tube]

Some pieces remind me of Egon Schiele

[@jacekpokrak9258]

compmaturism is a magic of painting

[@grahamhiggins1816]

bloody critics, can't stand them.

[@sjmsutherland]

I can't stand them either, most of them I feel have no understanding of art they are just pretending!!

[@themanwhoknewtoomuch6667]

"grabs you by the throat" Proceeds you to show a jumbled mess.

[@xIchinii]

the subtitles are fucking hilarious.

[@MrPhotodoc]

What about Banksy foo?

[@poisonwatersupply]

every documentary i see her in she is always smoking a cig lol

[@HendrikBlastem]

Looks just like Bilbo Baggins !

[@HendrikBlastem]

Hey buddy you must be a fun person in general, dont get so butthurt about such little things, focus on real issues

[@willdeshazo9450]

"I'm not an ist" but you're an artist.

[@kattentissari3247]

Will DeShazo welL done! That's truly brilLiant of u.... As too i could... :P

[@catherinerobertson4018]

I like Maggie humbling and I too know and I too know what it’s like to be Ill I have a imaginary friend I share my art with.xxxxxcathy

[@okoth162]

I like her...real.. Ist.

[@martinhasson4942]

Maggi is straighter than I thought not in a sexual manner. But more traditional in style Very interesting Artist indeed tho!

[@jnixa1010]

The ice melting must look feeble compared to the last ice age.

[@lidyvanoort3777]

Is this art? It looks like wallpaper.

[@slimnics]

Not just a scarf but a ...

[@Nemusplanta]

if she doesnt like ist and isnt ist does it mean that she isnt art-ist?

[@themanwhoknewtoomuch6667]

Sir, you are way too evolved for us.

[@DallasTaylor]

I thought this guy worked with giant glass pieces that other people make?

[@agomodern]

"I'm not an ist."

[@aryehfinklestein9041]

A cantakerous and difficult person comes through - but also obviously a great artist.

[@jnixa1010]

I thought it was don imus!

[@sictransitgloriamundi7590]

Il nulla!

[@joaoii1082]

Look at Magritte. Was a great artist but would many times repeat himself constantly to boredom, at around 50 paintings of the same idea and style.

[@John-wx3zn]

No.

[@dr.tetraminflakes3187]

bullS&%$ism, I"ll pay a million

[@bobbybob3681]

dark morbid depressing...... but in SA we have a lovely saying....dit is kak hoor!!!!!

[@Doomedcreatures]

just makes stuff 'that sells'..