Artists: Maggi Hambling - Sarah Lucas

Frankie Rossi Art and Sadie Coles HQ present a unique exhibition of painting and sculpture by Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas. Having met on 23 October 2000 - their shared birthday - at the legendary Colony Room Club in Soho, the two artists have been friends ever since.

The exhibition runs across Sadie Coles HQ at 8 Bury Street, and Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert at 38 Bury Street, and asserts the contrasts as well as the deeper continuities between their respective bodies of work. In relation to her iconic series of Bunny sculptures, Lucas has observed: “On the one hand, it’s about looking at the old things, and on the other, it’s wanting to bring them right back to a state of freshness that has to have something to do with right now.” For Hambling, too, the past can be reanimated in a work of art, with a painting expressing a kind of eternal present tense: “The one crucial thing that only painting can do is to make you feel as if you’re there while it’s being created – as if it’s happening in front of you.” Both artists make authentic use of that which surrounds them, including friends and lovers, and ‘things close to hand.’