2017
TM4657 : "The Scallop", Aldeburgh beach
taken 7 years ago, near to Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England
"The Scallop", Aldeburgh beach
"Scallop" (2003), by Maggi Hambling, is a sculpture located on the north beach at Aldeburgh. It commemorates the town's long-standing resident Benjamin Britten and the words that pierce it, "I hear those voices that will not be drowned", come from Britten's "Peter Grimes".
The sculpture's location in a wild, natural environment has caused considerable controversy and the artwork has been vandalised repeatedly. The presence of a large manufactured object in a level natural environment has been seen as incongruous; perhaps to smooth over this discrepancy the public are encouraged to clamber over it as if it were a natural outcrop.
For more detail on Maggi Hambling and her work see
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