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Barnack's Monthly for August 2024 is "Pebble, stone or rock".


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A Hardy Lass 'enjoys' the English Summer sitting before 'Scallop', a sculpture by Maggi Hambling, on the somewhat pebbly beach of Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

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'Scallop' was created, in 2003, as a tribute to the composer/conductor/pianist Benjamin Britten who, having settled in the 'small Suffolk seaside town' in 1947 (and in which he lived until his death in 1976), founded the 'Aldeburgh Festival' which was destined to become a celebration of, primarily, "Classical" Music, and which survives to this day.

The artwork was created very much as a personal labour of love by Hambling. Unusually (and I quote from Wiki);

"Hambling was not paid for her time working on the sculpture and funded manufacturing costs with her own money and sales of her artwork......Hambling intended the piece to be interacted with, climbed on, sat on, "made love" under, and used as a shelter.".

Cutting material from the metal - which can be seen here on the topmost part of the shell - recalls a quote from the libretto for Britten's opera 'Peter Grimes' and reads : “I hear those voices that will not be drowned.”

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Stone-made bunker, Algeciras

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Bolonia Romans quarry, Cadiz

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Someone’s been digging..  X1

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Stone Slabs

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Various Stones

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Aldeburgh’s pebble beach

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sl typ 601 lumix s 16-35 mm

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