Emma Stibbon (born 1 March 1962) is a

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-based British artist and Royal Academician.

Career

Emma Stibbon was born on 1 March 1962 in

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, Germany, and studied at the

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and the

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.Royal Academy of Arts
Emma Stibbon RA , Artist , Royal Academy of Arts
accessdate: 29/08/2014 Stibbon is known for her large, monochrome drawings and prints which explore the effects of human intervention and natural phenomenon on monumental structures. Her work has been exhibited globally and she currently Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at th
University of Brighton.
Stibbon was chosen as the

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of the

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for 2012–13. She is an Academician of the

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and was elected as a

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in 2013. Stibbon has a studio at Spike Island in

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

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, by creating a contemporary response to the works of

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and

J. M. W. Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulen ...

. The exhibition visited York Art Gallery and Abbott Hall Art Gallery,

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. ''Territories of Print 1994-2019'' was a solo retrospective exhibition of Stibbon's work titled held at the Rabley Drawing Centre Gallery near

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and accompanied by a book with the same title.

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

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, 2019, Rabley Drawing Centre, hardcover, 104 pages, ISBN 978-0-9926817-8-4

References

External links

Official website
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