On Wednesday 29 April, the Slade School of Fine Art presents Maggi Hambling CBE as the 2026 Milein Cosman lecturer.
Hambling is recognised as one of Britain’s leading artists – relentlessly inventive in her approach to painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. She is perhaps best known for her virtuoso paintings of nature, her psychologically acute portraits, and her often-controversial public sculpture — yet drawing has formed a constant throughout her work. To this day, she begins work every morning with an ink drawing, made ‘blind’ with her left hand, ‘like a pianist doing his scales to get into that energy and movement’.
Hambling will appear in conversation with the writer and critic (and Cosman Keller Trustee) James Cahill, discussing the ongoing and central role of drawing in her practice. She will look back at her formative years at the Slade (1967-69) and some of the milestone exhibitions that have shaped her career.
Further details and ticket bookings here.