Maggi Hambling: The Winchester Tapestries
Title: The Winchester Tapestries
Artist: Maggi Hambling (b. 1945, British)
Location: High Altar, Winchester Cathedral (C of E)
Date: 2013
Created by Maggi Hambling for the High Altar at Winchester Cathedral, these tapestries, the artist’s first, were dedicated on 7 July 2013. Maggi Hambling collaborated with Ateliers Pinton – a French tapestry workshop in the Aubusson region which has worked with artists such as Picasso, Miro, Leger and Sutherland (for Coventry).
Maggi Hambling (b. 1945, British) studied in East Anglia before also attending Camberwell and Slade Schools of Art. She was the National Gallery’s first artist-in-residence and her work is in many major collections. Her public works include a memorial to Benjamin Britten (on Aldeburgh beach) and also one to Oscar Wilde (near Traflagar Square). She is also known to consistently make a work based on Christ’s Passion every Good Friday.
Further information
Medium: Textile
Permanent display
See Hambling’s Winchester Tapestries on the Ecclesiart map here.
Commissioner: The Dean and Chapter of Winchester Cathedral
Other artworks in churches by Maggi Hambling: The Resurrection Spirit, 2012, St Dunstan’s Church Mayfield, Sussex
Other modern and contemporary works of art in Winchester Cathedral: Peter Eugene Ball, Pieta, 1990 and Crucifx, 1990; Cecil Collins, Christ before the Judge, 1954-6; Angela Connor, Memorial to John Tavener, 2016; Leslie Durbin, The Cross, 1966; Eric Gill, Agnus Dei, 1920 (bought by the cathedral in 1993); Antony Gormley, Sound II, 1993; Sophie Hacker and the Cathedral Broderers, Water into Wine frontal, 2020; Tim Harrisson, Sounding, 1997; David John, The Birinus Cross, 1979; Alice Kettle, Altar Cloth for the Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre, 1994; Justin Knowles, Blue Cross, 2001; Bryony Knox, Aumbry Lamp, 2005; Rachel Schwalm, panel for Altar in the Venerable Chapel, 2011; Tracey Sheppard, Glass panels for Epiphany Chapel, 2000; Peter Smith, Paschal Candle, 1986; Glynn Williams, The Wiliam Walker Memoral Sculpture, 2001.