Emma Stibbon Explained

Honorific Suffix:RA
Birth Date:1962 3, df=y
Father:Sir John James Stibbon
Known For:Drawing and Printmaking
Birth Place:Münster

Emma Stibbon (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 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.

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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Liversidge . Micheal . 26 July 2019 . Emma Stibbon Alumni . https://web.archive.org/web/20240907201933/https://www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/our-alumni/honorary-degrees/honorary-graduates/2019/emma-stibbon/ . 7 September 2024 . 7 September 2024 . University of Bristol.
  2. Royal Academy of Arts: Emma Stibbon RA | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts, accessdate: 29/08/2014
  3. Web site: Emma Stibbon Artist Royal Academy of Arts. www.royalacademy.org.uk. 2017-03-05.
  4. Web site: Emma Stibbon Academic staff Arts and Humanities . arts.brighton.ac.uk. en-gb. 2017-03-05.
  5. Web site: Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge » Antarctic artist 2012/13: Emma Stibbon. 2021-11-16. www.spri.cam.ac.uk.
  6. Web site: Emma Stibbon. 2021-11-17. RWA Bristol. en.
  7. Web site: Studio artistsEmma Stibbon. 2021-11-16. Spike Island. en.
  8. Web site: Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud: Watercolours and Drawings - York Art Gallery. www.yorkartgallery.org.uk. 6 January 2019.
  9. Web site: Past exhibitions. 2022-01-04. Lakeland Arts. en-GB.
  10. Web site: 2019-03-15. Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud. 2022-01-04. Kendal Town. en-GB.
  11. Web site: 2019-01-06. Climate change ravages Turner's majestic glaciers. 2022-01-04. the Guardian. en.
  12. Web site: Centre. Rabley Drawing. 2019-12-08. Emma Stibbon – Territories of Print 1994-2019 – Exhibition at Rabley Drawing Centre. 2022-01-04. Rabley News and Events. en.

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