| Honorific Suffix: | RA |
| Birth Date: | 1962 3, df=y |
| Known For: | Drawing and Printmaking |
| Birth Place: | Münster |
Emma Stibbon (born 1 March 1962) is a Bristol-based British artist and Royal Academician.
Emma Stibbon was born on 1 March 1962 in Münster, Germany, and studied at the Portsmouth College of Art, Goldsmiths College and the University of the West of England.[1]
Stibbon is known for her large, monochrome drawings and prints which explore the effects of human intervention and natural phenomenon on monumental structures.[2]
Her work has been exhibited globally and she currently Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at the University of Brighton.[3]
Stibbon was chosen as the Antarctic Artist in Residence of the Scott Polar Research Institute for 2012–13.[4]
She is an Academician of the Royal West of England Academy[5] and was elected as a Royal Academician in 2013.
Stibbon has a studio at Spike Island in Bristol.[6]
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.[7] [8] [9] [10]
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.[11]
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