‘I need complete freedom’: Maggi Hambling responds to statue critics

Some see a new statue commemorating Mary Wollstonecraft as an affront to the pioneering feminist, but its creator says she is used to controversyMaggi Hambling, the renowned British artist who outraged a large section of the general public and many feminists last week, to say nothing of the surprised residents of a north London community, has defended her right to artistic freedom.Her new statue commemorating Mary Wollstonecraft was unveiled last week, the culmination of a 10-year campaign to ma