Emma Stibbon RA
About Artist
Emma Stibbon depicts landscapes and environments undergoing dynamic change. Often working in collaboration with scientists, Stibbon researches, explores and encounters her subjects on expeditions to remote geographical regions and in urban areas, enticed by monuments to human endeavour.
Born in 1962 in Münster, Germany. Stibbon studied Fine Art BA (Hons) at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Research MA Fine Art at the University of the West of England, Bristol.In 2019 she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Bristol. Emma Stibbon became an elected Royal Academician (RA) in 2013.
A major new publication Emma Stibbon – Territories of Print 1994-2019 has recently been published by Rabley Gallery and the Artist. This is a beautifully illustrated monograph has an illuminating essay by Gill Saunders, Senior Curator of Prints at the Victoria and Albert Museum. A selection of special prints featured in the book are available from Rabley Gallery.
Selected Artworks
Emma Stibbon RA
Amboy Crater, Mojave Desert
Date: 2021
Medium: Intaglio and Hand Colouring
Size: 75.5 x 50 cms (29.72 x 19.68 ins)
IFPDA Print Fair New Publication Feature: $1200.00
£900.00
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Antiqua, Svalbard
Date: 2023
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 30 x 46 cms (11.81 x 18.11 ins)
Emma Stibbon’s monoprint ‘Antiqua, Svalbard, 2023’ has an aura of stillness, space and the coldness of arctic breathe.
Emma Stibbon RA
Aqueduct Rome 4/12F
Date: 2011
Medium: Woodcut on Japanese Paper
Size: 95.5 x 145.7 cms
£6,750.00
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Arctic Valley, Norway
Date: 2022
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 41 x 59 cms (16.14 x 23.23 ins)
Edition 35
Printed on Somerset Satin White (300gsm)
Both Arctic Valley, Norway and Receding Storm, Barents Sea were made from a recent residency travelling with the Arctic Circle programme.
£850.00
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Boom or Bust
Date: 2021
Size: 42.5 x 75 cms (16.73 x 29.53 ins)
Emma Stibbon RA was artist in residence for the Grand Canyon National Parks in 2019 and Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park in 2016. Her new intaglio and hand coloured prints include ’Salt Flats, Badwater Basin’, ‘Road to Death Valley’ and ‘Boom and Bust’. Each depicts landscapes and environments undergoing dynamic change. A British Royal Academician, she often works in collaboration with international scientists to research and explore her subjects.
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Broken Ice
Date: 2023
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 28 x 47.00 cms (11.02 x 18.50 ins)
Emma Stibbon’s monoprint ‘Antiqua, Svalbard, 2023’ and 'Broken Ice' have an aura of stillness, space and the coldness of arctic breathe.
Emma Stibbon RA
Broken Terrain.
Date: 2017
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 67.00 x 80.00 cms (26.38 x 31.50 ins)
£1,200.00
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Canyon du Chelly.
Date: 2018
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 38.00 x 57.00 cms (14.96 x 22.44 ins)
£650.00
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Dead Horse Point.
Date: 2018
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 38 x 96 cms (14.96 x 37.80 ins)
£900.00
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Emma Stibbon RA
El Chorro Gorge
Date: 1998
Medium: Woodcut
Size: 217.00 x 91.00 cms (85.43 x 35.83 ins)
Edition 35
Framed size 230cm x 105cm
Emma Stibbon RA
Eldfell Heimaey (White House).
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 48 x 52.5 cms
£1,000.00
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Firn FOLIO 11/50
Medium: Woodcut
Size: 69 x 49 cms
£2,500.00
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Emma Stibbon RA
Forest Fire
Date: 2018
Medium: Intaglio with hand colour
Size: 48.5 x 71.5 cm
£850.00
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Gjertsenodden, Svalbard
Date: 2024
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 41 x 101 cms (16.14 x 39.76 ins)
Edition 35
Printed bleed edge on Somerset Satin 325gsm
Framed Price £1350
£950.00
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Ice Floe, Antarctica.
Date: 2020
Medium: Intaglio and woodcut
Size: 48 x 76 cm (18.90 x 29.92 ins)
Edition 35
Unframed
Intaglio with Hand Colour, 48 x 76cm, Edition 35
£950.00
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Ice Shelf, Svalbard
Date: 2024
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 47 x 73 cms (18.50 x 28.74 ins)
Edition 35
Printed bleed edge on Somerset Satin 325gsm
Framed Price £1300
New Publication LOPF24
£950.00
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Emma Stibbon RA
Ice Tongue
Date: 2022
Medium: Photopolymer gravure
Size: 28.00 x 38.00 cms (11.02 x 14.96 ins)
Printed on 300gsm Somerset.
£550.00
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Lead II.
Date: 2015
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 98 x 72.5 cms
Edition of 30
Last one Available framed
£2,350.00
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Lotto Guns Ammo.
Date: 2018
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 42.50 x 67 cms (16.73 x 26.38 ins)
£750.00
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Night Sea Ice (Antarctica).
Date: 2017
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 50.2 x 62 cm
£950.00
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Radar Station (Iceland).
Date: 2015
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 49.5 x 65 cm
£1,050.00
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Rail Shed Leipzig.
Date: 2018
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 51 x 82.5 cm
£900.00
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Ravine, Spert Island Antarctica
Date: 2024
Size: 30 x 42 cms (11.81 x 16.54 ins)
printed to the edge of the paper size 30 x 42xm
Edition 35
£550.00
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Receding Storm, Barents Sea
Date: 2022
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 48.00 x 71.80 cms (18.90 x 28.27 ins)
Edition 35
Printed on Somerset Satin White (300gsm).
Both Arctic Valley, Norway and Receding Storm, Barents Sea were made from a recent residency travelling with the Arctic Circle programme. Receding Storm, Barents Sea records the the dramatic weather conditions and atmospherics of the sea experienced during the voyage across the Barents Sea from the North of Norway to Svalbard in the High Arctic.
£1,100.00
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Emma Stibbon RA
Refuge.
Date: 2016
Medium: Intaglio with hand colour
Size: 53 x 75 cm
Edition 40
Unframed
£1,000.00
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Emma Stibbon RA
Road to Death Valley
Date: 2020
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 54 x 68.3 cms (21.26 x 26.89 ins)
Gold rush, 2,000 community within 8years collapsed - extreme temperatures
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Salt Flats, Badwater Basin
Date: 2021
Medium: Intaglio with Woodcut
Size: 33.5 x 89 cms (13.19 x 35.04 ins)
BASTILLE Gallery have 1 -3
In Death Valley 2021
£800.00
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Sea 1.
Date: 2012
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 70 x 89 cm
£1,100.00
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Sea 2.
Medium: Drawing polymergravure
Size: 70 x 89 cms
£1,100.00
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Sea 3.
Date: 2012
Medium: Drawing polymergravure
Size: 70 x 89 cm
£1,100.00
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Sea Mist (Svalbard).
Date: 2015
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 45.5 x 66 cm
Edition 30
Unframed
£900.00
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Shattered Cone
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 40.5 x 56.5 cms
£995.00
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Snowline, Svalbard
Date: 2021
Medium: Intaglio with hand colour
Size: 27.00 x 39.00 cms (10.63 x 15.35 ins)
27 x 49cm, Edition 40
£550.00
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Tabular Berg
Date: 2022
Medium: aquatint & polymergravure
Size: 48 x 75 cms (18.90 x 29.53 ins)
£950.00
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Territories of Print BOOK with Haakon VII Land, Svalbard.
Date: 2019
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 23 x 27.3 cm
£450.00
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Emma Stibbon RA
Tree Ka'u Desert.
Date: 2017
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 56 x 65 cm
£850.00
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News
An artist working exclusively on paper, in her drawings and prints there is a tensile loading to her use of materials, where each mark she draws with a brush or a pencil harnesses the forces of natural and man-made worlds. Her graphic gestures are a tactile response of place: the ash of a volcano mingles with ink on the paper or is pitted into the surface of a printing plate.
Exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
The Desert Sublime, University of San Diego Gallery, USA
2022
Vanishing Point, Galerie Bastian, Berlin (Nov)
2019
Fire and Ice, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Territories of Print 1994–2019, Rabley Drawing Centre
2017
Volcano, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2016
Stromboli, Earth Gallery, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
Uncertain Ground, Galerie Bastian, Berlin
2015
Ice Limit, The Polar Museum, Cambridge
Ice Mirage, Galerie Bastian, Berlin
2013
Terra Infirma, Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, UK
2012
Berlin/Potsdam: Changing Cities, Potsdam Kunstverien, Berlin
Terra Infirma, Listhus Artspace, Iceland
2011
Falls the Shadow, R O O M, London
ROMA, Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, UK
The Gods that Failed Beck and Eggeling New Quarters, Dusseldorf
2010
Now’s the Time, upstairs berlin, Berlin
2009
StadtLandschaften, Stadtmuseum, Berlin
2008
Retrea,t R O O M, London
Glacial Shift, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Collapsed Whaling Station Deception Island, Antarctica: A work in focus
2022
A Wider Landscape, The Alpine Club, London
Infinite, Beauty The Arc, Winchester
Earth, Digging Deep in British Art 1781 – 2022 RWA, Bristol (co-curator)
From Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking, Pallant House
Freezing Point, Villa Merkel Museum, Esslingen, Germany
2021
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Houseshomes, Beck and Eggeling, Dusseldorf
2020
Centre of Gravity, Gardiner Haskins, Bristol
2019
Ruskin, Turner and the Storm Cloud, York Art Gallery, & Abbot Hall, Cumbria
The Museum of the Near Future, Ruskin Library Lancaster
Ruskin at 200, University of San Diego
Palace of the Republic: Utopia, Inspiration, Controversy Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany
Viermal Neues Auf Papier II, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Blosse Landschaft, Waldkraiburg, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Germany
2018
Wilderness, New Art Gallery, Walsall
Eiskalt, Eres Stiftung, Munich, Germany
Creative Destruction: Volcanoes Inspiring Art & Science with Prof Kathy Cashman and Prof Steve Sparks Verey Gallery, Eton and Rochester Art Gallery (touring)
2017
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
2016
At the Still Point, Galerie Bastian, Berlin
Towards Night Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Recent Acquisitions; Landscape and the Urban Environment New Art Gallery Walsall
Visions of the Great White South, Bonhams, London
2015
Intersecting Practices of Contemporary Printmaking in the U,K China Academy of Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hangzhou, China
2014
Drawn to the Real, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Academicians III, Glasgow Print Studio
2013
Renaissance Reloaded, Beck and Eggeling, Dusseldorf
2012
Hommage à Cy Twombly, Galerie Bastian, Berlin
Visionary Fragments, Contemporary Art Society/ Canal & River Trust, Gloucester
2011
Infinite Beginnings, Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
2010
Meet me at the Cemetery Gates, British School at Rome
Emma Stibbon and Wolfgang Temme, Verein fur Original-Radierung, Munich
Template, Rabley Drawing Centre / 107 Workshop, Wiltshire
The Lure of Water, Swindon City Museum and Art Gallery
Sea Fever, Southampton City Art Gallery
2009
Northern Print Biennale, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle on Tyne
Firn, display of prints at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Fixsterne, 100 Years Art on Pape, Schleswig Holsteinische Landesmuseum
2008
Holzschnittheute 2008, Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg
Paper 8, upstairs berlin, Berlin
2007
“jetzt“, curated by Michael Haas, Beck & Eggeling, Duesseldorf
Raumwelten, Kunsthalle Arnstadt
2006
Nordenfjords, Kunst fra Berlin, Kunstbygningen i Vrå, Denmark
2005
Ian Monroe and Emma Stibbon: Utopian Architecture, upstairs berlin, Berlin
Art Caucasus 2005, Tblisi, Georgia
The Spirit of Place, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Exploring the Line, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol
Reflex, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Wales
Reflected Marks, Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, UK
2004
8 Artists from Spike Island, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff
LAND2: beyond landscape?, Dean Clough, Halifax
4th International Gyumri Biennial, Armenia
2003
Breckman Room, recent acquisitions, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2002
Nature From Wood, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
2001
In-Print Exhibition, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
1999
Relief Print Today, Gainsborough House, Suffolk
Mountain, Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery
1998
Contemporary Print Guadalajara, Mexico & Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
1997
International Print Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
AWARDS
2022 Arts Council England; Developing Your Creative Practice Award
2021 Shortlisted with Towner Eastbourne for the Freelands Award
2019 Queen Sonja of Norway Print Award, Artica, Svalbard, High Arctic
2013 Grants for the Arts Award: ArcticCircle expedition
2009 The Friends of the Laing Purchase Prize, Northern Print Biennale, Newcastle on Tyne
Artist Award: Arts Council England, South West
British Council support Emma Stibbon: StadLandschaften
2007 Faculty Research Award, University of Brighton School of Arts, Design and Media
Artist Award: Arts Council England, South West
2004 T N Lawrence Prize, RWA Open Print Exhibition
2002 Research Fine Art Award, Rootstein Hopkins Foundation
2001 Dupree Prize for Woman Artist, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
SSCHOLARSHIPS / RESIDENCIES
2021 The Arctic Circle; Svalbard Expedition
2019 Death Valley National Park Artist-in-Residence
2017 Artist project in Ecuador with Project-Pressure.org
Grand Canyon National Parks Artist-in-Residence
2016 Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut, Artist-in-Residence
Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park Artist-in-Residence
2013 Scott Polar Research Institute/HMS Protector Artist Placement
2010 Derek Hill Scholarship, British School at Rome
2005 Stiftung Federkiel, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Artist-in-Residence
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
UK: Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery; Dorset County Hospital; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle on Tyne; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; New Art Gallery, Walsall; New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge; Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth; Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge; University of Chichester. International: Jonathan Meese Collection, Kolm; Stadtmuseum, Berlin; Artica, Svalbard; Céline & Heiner Bastian; Potsdam Museum, Berlin; San Diego University Collection; United Therapeutics Art Collection, USA.
PUBLICATIONS
2019
Emma Stibbon – Territories of Print 1994- 2019, Meryl Ainslie, Amy-Jane Blackhall, Gill Saunders, Emma Stibbon, Rabley Drawing Centre/Stibbon