EMMA STIBBON RA
“Emma Stibbon’s work is rooted in direct observation of landscape though Emma’s stems primarily from concern for the changes wrought by climate change on the natural world.
I knew and admired Emma’s epic woodcuts for years before I first met her. After my own election to the RA in 2011, Emma was the first artist who I worked (successfully) to have elected as a printmaker Academician too.
Her diverse images from Roman ruins to melting glaciers to collapsing whaling stations to erupting volcanoes have a sense of epic scale, drama and haunting atmosphere. Her print techniques are quite wide-ranging yet she brings to them a secure foundation in peerless observational drawing.”
Anne Desmet RA
Emma Stibbon RA
EMMA STIBBON RA
Emma Stibbon RA
Emma Stibbon is an artist who works primarily on paper, producing large-scale drawing and prints. She depicts environments that are undergoing dynamic change and travels widely with her work. She has taken part in several international residencies including the Derek Hill scholarship at the British School at Rome (2010); Artist Placement in Antarctica, organised by the Scott Polar Research Institute (2013); the Arctic Circle.org expedition to Svalbard in the High Arctic (2013); Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut (2016); Artist in Residence at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park (2016); and Grand Canyon National Parks Artist in Residence (2017). She is currently working as artist in residence at Artica in Longyearbyen Svalbard as a recipient of the Queen Sonja Print Award.
Stibbon has exhibited her work at the Alan Cristea Gallery, London, Galerie Bastian, Berlin, the Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; The Polar Museum, Cambridge, the Royal Academy, London; Potsdam Kunstverein and Museum of Contemporary Art, Hangzhou, China. Her work is held in private and public collections including the Stadtmuseum, Berlin; Potsdam Museum; the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery; Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth; and the V&A, London.
Emma Stibbon was born was 1962 in Münster, Germany. She studied a Fine Art BA at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Research Fine Art MA at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She was elected Royal Academician in 2013 and lives and works in Bristol, UK.