27 January 2006
Friday 27 January 2006 21:00-21:30 (Radio 3)
Artist Maggi Hambling on how painting the sea is like swimming and sex as a new exhibition opens
Programme Details
On Night Waves tonight Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to artist Maggi Hambling as a new exhibition opens and a book about her life and work is published. Gabriel talks to her about what has drawn her back to the sea as a subject after a twenty year dry patch and why and how she paints from photographs and memory as well as life.
As the prize-winning film Hidden opens, an exploration of the consequences of unresolved guilt on both a personal and national level, Gabriel reviews it and explores the work of director Michael Haneke.
And on the 50th anniversary of the release of Heartbreak Hotel Gabriel talks to ex-Velvet Underground musician John Cale about what drew him to reconstruct the Elvis classic. As he releases a new CD, John also talks about why he can't listen to an album once he has made it.
Further information
Maggi Hambling: Portraits of people and the sea is at Marlborough Fine Art in London until the 25th February and the book Maggi Hambling The Works is in bookshops now published by Unicorn Press.
Hidden is in cinemas nationwide, certificate 15. Michael Haneke's back catalogue includes:
2003 The Time of the Wolf
2001 The Piano Teacher
2000 Code Unknown
1997 The Castle
1997 Funny Games
1996 Lumiere and Company
John Cale's new album blackAcetate is in shops now on the EMI label. And if you want to catch him live he is at Glasgow ABC tomorrow night, The Sage at Gateshead on Sunday and Leicester De Montfort Hall on Monday.
