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<image 1>: A Conversation with the Sea stands in which British seaside town? (A) Herne Bay, Kent (B) St Ives, Cornwall (C) Aldeburgh, Suffolk (D) Sandown, Isle of Wight Answer with the option's letter from the given choices directly. No punctuation. | A Expected Answer: C Difficulty: Easy Subfield: Sculpture Explanation: Maggi Hambling's four-metre high monument was created in remembrance of the Aldeburgh resident and composer Benjamin Britten, who died in 1976. The artist described the shell as a conversation with the sea, and it symbolises Britten's 1945 opera, Peter Grimes, which features the line: 'I hear those voices that will not be drowned.' Image: Scallop: A Conversation with the Sea, 2003, Maggi Hambling (b.1945) and Sam Dennis Pegg |