Maggi Hambling created Scallop, a four-metre-high steel sculpture bearing the words “I hear those voices that will not be drowned” from the opera Peter Grimes, as a tribute to Benjamin Britten. Maggi calls her sculpture a “conversation with the sea”, reflecting the close relationship between the sculpture and the sea it stands beside on the shingle beach at Aldeburgh. The moment I first set eyes upon it, I was enchanted.
Maggi Hambling created Scallop, a four-metre-high steel sculpture bearing the words “I hear those voices that will not be drowned” from the opera Peter Grimes, as a tribute to Benjamin Britten. Maggi calls her sculpture a “conversation with the sea”, reflecting the close relationship between the sculpture and the sea it stands beside on the shingle beach at Aldeburgh. The moment I first set eyes upon it, I was enchanted.