About Artist
Selected Artworks
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Exhibitions

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

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