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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 ...

The whole floor was covered in bits of scallop shell and all the rest of it. and then various people came to see it, including simon loftus, who was the chairman of adnams brewery at the time, and he liked it very much and said, "well, we'll have to get some money together to make it." and so we worked together and i'd begun to make sea paintings and there was a show of sea paintings at snape maltings and 200 quid went every time one sold towards the sculpture. and so people gave money. and so it wasn't... so you raised the money yourself? yeah, yeah. but i suppose what i was getting to is tha...

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 an...

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So, you raised the money yourself? yeah, yeah. but i suppose what i was getting to is that that exposed you to a new level of sort of public scrutiny, because these are extremely well—known pieces that you're putting in very public places and that just sit there forever and people take a very strong view, both for and against. and for an artist, i wonder what it's like when, for example, the good old scallop shell has a petition against it in the community of aldeburgh and hundreds of people are saying, "get rid of it." i mean, as an artist, what does that feel like? well... you know, you ma...