Description
Hardback / 24 x 1 x 22 cm / 72 pages
This beautiful monograph presents many new works and includes a preface by Caroline Lucas MP, an engaging interview with the artist by Sara Cooper and an essay on the sublimity of landscape by Richard Fisher.
Tucked inside the back cover is a large poster of new the installation Rock Fall, 2025, on display at the Burton at Bideford (10 May – 5 July 2025) Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice | Rising Tides
Working principally in drawing and print media on paper, Emma Stibbon RA depicts landscapes and environments that are undergoing dynamic transformation, among them the polar regions, volcanic areas, deserts and coastal and urban locations. Her approach is driven by her desire to understand how human activity and the forces of nature are shaping our surroundings: ‘As an artist, I feel committed to representing the impact of these changes, be they natural or human. My impulse is to draw, to act as a witness.’
A regular traveller, Stibbon undertakes field research alongside geologists and scientists; on her return to her Bristol studio, she works from her sketches and photographic records to create large-scale drawn and printed artworks that testify to the fragility of our existence.
Full of Stibbon’s new work, this beautifully designed book contains a foreword by Caroline Lucas MP, an engaging interview with the artist by Sara Cooper, a text on the sublime in nature and art by Richard Fisher and a colour poster of Towners installation piece Cliff Fall (2023) alongside her new installation Rock Fall, 2025 at The Burton.
