Emma Stibbon RA

Born: 1 March 1962, Munster, Germany
Elected RA: 13 March 2013
Category of Membership: Engraver

Emma Stibbon RA, 'Fumarole, Iceland Ink on paper. 131 x 184 cm. Emma Stibbon studied at Portsmouth College of Art, Goldsmith College and the University of the West of England. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at the University of Brighton. An award winning artist with an international reputation, she has held several residencies, including the Derek Hill Scholarship at the British School in Rome (2010). She will also participate in the Arctic Circle 2013, an art and science expedition to the Arctic Circle.

Drawing is at the heart of Emma’s practice and she has travelled widely, recording her responses to the physical appearance and psychological impact of natural and built environments. Working from sketches and photographic records, Emma creates stark, monochrome, often large-scale works on paper. Romantic in character, they dramatise the effects of human intervention and natural phenomena on monumental structures and explore the fragility of existence.

She has works in public and private collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Scott Polar Research Institute, the University of Cambridge and the Stadtmuseum, Berlin.

Solo Exhibitions
2012 Berlin/Potsdam: Changing Cities, Kunstverien Kunsthaus-Potsdam
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
StadtLandschaften University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton
2009 StadtLandschaften Stadtmuseum, Berlin
2008 Retreat R O O M, London
Glacial Shift, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
2007 Emma Stibbon: Antarctica, upstairs berlin, Berlin
2006 Emma Stibbon: Antarctica Drawings, Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre
Emma Stibbon, R O O M, Bristol
2001 Russell Cotes Museum and Art Gallery, Bournemouth

Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 Renaissance Reloaded
Beck and Eggeling, Dusseldorf group show including Michael Craig Martin and Heribert C Ottersbach
Drawing 2013, ’11, ’09 Biennial Fundraiser, the Drawing Room, London
2012 Hommage à Cy Twombly Gallery Bastian, Berlin, with Jackson Pollock, Brice Marden, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Merz and Richard Long
Meeresrauschen upstairs berlin, Berlin
Collaborators 2012, ’10 R O O M, London
Bite: Artsts Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London, invited artist
Multiplied 2012 Christies, London, with Rabley Drawing Centre
Visionary Fragments Canal & River Trust/Contemporary Art Society, Gloucester
2011 Infinite Beginnings Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition ’10, ’09, ‘08, 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
Masters and Mistresses of Drawing Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre
Fixsterne, 100 Years Art on Paper: Adolf Menzel to Kiki Smith, Schleswig Holsteinische Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottdorf, Germany
2008 Zoo Art Fair, represented by R O O M, London
Holzschnittheute 2008, Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg
All Over The Place: Drawing Place, Drawing Space, LAND2, UWE, Bristol
Monochrome, Rabley Drawing Centre, Ged Quinn, Mariele Neudeker & others
2007 Twenty: Celebrating 20 years of Arts in Hospital, Dorset County Hospital "jetzt“, curated by Michael Haas, Beck & Eggeling, Duesseldorf
Raumwelten, Kunsthalle Arnstadt
2006 Nordenfjords, Kunst fra Berlin, Kunstbygningen i Vrå, Denmark
2005 Winterzauber, upstairs berlin, Berlin
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

Awards
2013 Grants for the Arts Award; Drawing the Polar Regions
2012 University of Brighton Research Sabbatical Scheme
2009 Friends of the Laing Prize, Northern Print Biennale, Newcastle on Tyne
Artist Award: Arts Council England, South West
British Council support Emma Stibbon: StadLandschaften
2007 Exchange Partners in Print: False Gods, Honourable Mention
Faculty Research Award University of Brighton School of Arts Design & Media
Artist Award: Arts Council England, South West
2006 Printmaking Today Prize: Originals ’06, Mall Galleries
2005 Artist Award: Arts Council England, South West
2004 T N Lawrence Prize, RWA Open Print Exhibition
2002 Research Fine Art Award, Rootstein Hopkins Foundation
St Cuthberts Mill Paper Prize, RWA Autumn Open
Talboys Bequest Purchase Prize, RWA Autumn Open
2001 Dupree Prize for Woman Artist, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award
2000 Lark Trust Prize, RWA Open Triennial

Scholarships/Residencies
2013 Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute/HMS Protector/Bonhams Artist Placement in Antarctica
The Arctic Circle; Svalbard Expedition
2012 Listhus Artspace, Ólafsfjördur, Iceland
2010 Derek Hill Scholarship, British School at Rome
2005 Artist in residence, Stiftung Federkiel, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig
2002 Juliet Gomperts Memorial Trust Residency Award, Italy

Selected Collections
Aldrich Collection, University of Brighton
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
Dorset County Hospital
Grampian Hospitals Art Trust, Aberdeen
Hereford and Worcester Education Trust
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle on Tyne
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex
Potsdam Museum, Berlin
New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Stadtmuseum, Berlin
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Recent Publications
Books
2009 Emma Stibbon: StadtLandschaften publisher Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld/Leipzig (UK distributer Cornerhouse Books) ISBN 978-3-86678-2754 (monograph)
Fixsterne, 100 Years Art on Paper: Adolf Menzel to Kiki Smith, Schleswig Holsteinische Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottdorf, Germany 2009 (inclusion)
Printmaking, a Contemporary Perspective by Paul Coldwell, Black Dog Publishing ISBN 9781906155438 (inclusion)
2006 Prints Now. Directions and Definitions, Gill Saunders and Rosie Miles, published by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2006, ISBN 0904490 254 (inclusion)
2005 The Drawing Book, edited by Tania Kovats, Black Dog Publishing, London (inclusion

Exhibition Catalogues
2013 'Renaissance Reloaded' Beck and Eggeling, Dusseldorf
2012 Hommage à Cy Twombly Gallery Bastian
Berlin/Potsdam: Changing Cities, Kunsthaus-Potsdam
2011 Roma Rabley Drawing Centre UK
The Gods that Failed Beck and Eggeling Kunstverlag
2009 All Over The Place: Drawing Place, Drawing Space, LAND2 , University of the West of England, Bristol, Autumn 2009
2008 Holzschnitt Heute. Kunstpreis 2008, Stiftung Kunst, Kultur und Bildung der Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg
2007 jetzt curated by Beck and Eggeling, Duesseldorf
Emma Stibbon: Antarctica, upstairs berlin, Berlin 2007
2005 Ian Monroe and Emma Stibbon: Utopian Architecture, upstairs berlin, Berlin
Reflex, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Wales 2005
2004 LAN2D: beyond landscape? Dean Clough, Halifax 2004
2002 In-Print, exhibition catalogue, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
2001 Emma Stibbon, Russell-Cotes Museum and Art Gallery, Bournemouth

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