Emma Stibbon

Goldsmiths College
University of the West of England

Known forDrawing and PrintmakingWebsiteemmastibbon.com

Emma Stibbon RA (born 1 March 1962) is a Bristol-based British artist and Royal Academician.

Early life and education

Emma Stibbon was born on 1 March 1962 in Münster, Germany. Her father was General Sir John James Stibbon, KCB, OBE (5 January 1935 – 9 February 2014) one of the highest-ranking officers in the British Army, who served as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff and then as Master-General of the Ordnance from 1987–91. Her mother is Lady Jean Stibbon (née Skeggs).^[1]

Stibbon studied at the Portsmouth College of Art (Foundation 1980–81), Goldsmiths College and the University of the West of England.^[2]

Career

Stibbon is known for her large, monochrome drawings and prints which explore the effects of human intervention and natural phenomenon on monumental structures.^[3]

Her work has been exhibited globally^[2] and she currently Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at the University of Brighton.^[4]

Stibbon was chosen as the Antarctic Artist in Residence of the Scott Polar Research Institute for 2012–13.^[5]

She is an Academician of the Royal West of England Academy^[6] and was elected as a Royal Academician in 2013.^[2]

Stibbon has a studio at Spike Island in Bristol.^[7]

Exhibitions

Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud. Stibbon was commissioned to create the works for a touring exhibition to mark Ruskin's 200th birthday in 2019. Her contribution to the exhibition commented on damage to the French Alps by global warming, by creating a contemporary response to the works of John Ruskin and J. M. W. Turner. The exhibition visited York Art Gallery and Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria.^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

Territories of Print 1994-2019 was a solo retrospective exhibition of Stibbon's work titled held at the Rabley Drawing Centre Gallery near Marlborough in Wiltshire and accompanied by a book with the same title.^[12]

Publications

Fire and Ice, 2019, Royal Academy of Arts, hardcover, 108 pages, ISBN 978-1-912520-25-1

Territories of Print 1994-2019, Edited by Meryl Ainslie with an Essay by Gill Saunders, 2019, Rabley Drawing Centre, hardcover, 104 pages, ISBN 978-0-9926817-8-4

References

^ Liversidge, Micheal (26 July 2019). "Emma Stibbon | Alumni". University of Bristol. Archived from the original on 7 September 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Royal Academy of Arts: Emma Stibbon RA | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts, accessdate: 29/08/2014
^ "Emma Stibbon | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
^ "Emma Stibbon | Academic staff | Arts and Humanities". arts.brighton.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
^ "Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge » Antarctic artist 2012/13: Emma Stibbon". www.spri.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
^ "Emma Stibbon". RWA Bristol. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
^ "Studio artistsEmma Stibbon". Spike Island. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
^ "Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud: Watercolours and Drawings - York Art Gallery". www.yorkartgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
^ "Past exhibitions". Lakeland Arts. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
^ "Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud". Kendal Town. 15 March 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
^ "Climate change ravages Turner's majestic glaciers". the Guardian. 6 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
^ Centre, Rabley Drawing (8 December 2019). "Emma Stibbon – Territories of Print 1994-2019 – Exhibition at Rabley Drawing Centre". Rabley News and Events. Retrieved 4 January 2022.