Emma Stibbon

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Emma Stibbon
RA
Born (1962-03-01) 1 March 1962 (age 62)
Münster
Alma mater
  • Goldsmiths College
  • University of the West of England
Known forDrawing and Printmaking
Father Sir John James Stibbon
Website emmastibbon.com

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

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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

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