Roused by the rhythmic raw soundtrack of roiling ocean breakers and the gentle pitter-patter of a dawn shower, rise with the seals and strike out along the
on aldeburgh beach. and just for people who don t know, that s this extraordinary. i think it s four tonnes of steel, a sort of elaborate scallop shell shape, which is right on the shingle beach at aldeburgh. yes. it s a shattered scallop, you know, because i think benjamin britten took classical music and wrung it by the neck and reinvented it and so it s the shattering scallop shell. but a friend of mine had come to tea and said, oh, i thought i was going to be a statue of benjamin britten in aldeburgh, maggi, and i thought you were going to do it. and i said, vanessa, you re pottier than ever, because i remembered about five years earlier there d been a lot in the newspapers about aldeburgh not wanting a statue of benjamin britten, aldeburgh not entirely approving of benjamin britten and it made me very angry. so i started to make the maquette and, you know,
and i m thinking in central london, you did an intriguing sort of public sculpture celebrating oscar wilde, you took on a commission to celebrate benjamin britten. that wasn t a commission. which one? the oscar wilde was commissioned, yes, but the. ..but scallop on aldeburgh beach. and just for people who don t know, that s this extraordinary. i think it s four tonnes of steel, a sort of elaborate scallop shell shape, which is right on the shingle beach at aldeburgh. yes. it s a shattered scallop, you know, because i think benjamin britten took classical music and wrung it by the neck and reinvented it and so it s the shattering scallop shell. but a friend of mine had come to tea and said, oh, i thought i was going to be a statue of benjamin britten