Emma Stibbon

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Emma Stibbon (born March 1, 1962 in Münster , Germany ) is a British artist. She is currently teaching at the University of Brighton .

Life

Stibbon was born the daughter of an officer in the British armed forces stationed in Germany. She studied art and trained as a paper restorer. Stages of her education were: 1980-1981 Portsmouth College of Art, 1981-1984 BA (First Class Hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, 1984-1986 HND Paper Conservation, Camberwell College of Arts, London, 2002-2005 MA Research Fine Art, University of the West of England, Bristol. She lives and works in Bristol today .

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In 2009 Emma Stibbon presented her works on paper for the first time in a German museum - in a solo exhibition in the Ephraim-Palais of the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation under the title "StadtLandschaften / CityLandscapes". She previously exhibited at the Berlin gallery upstairs .

“When looking at Emma Stibbon's work, it becomes clear that she is pursuing a specific intention with her choice of subjects and the artistic process. With technical ability and her conceptual approach, the artist suggests the changeability of a place, her drawings and woodcuts appear like silent metaphors in a restless time. They provide information about cities and landscapes and about the role that creative people play in them. The apparent present motifs are in reality the sum of the past, which in turn points to future change. Stibbon's pictures move in this ambivalence of time and space. "

- Andreas Teltow : MuseumsJournal 2009

The breaks in history and the forces of change are the main driving forces behind the artist's work. Although the motifs can be assigned topographically in the broadest sense, a faithful depiction, which one might expect due to their realism-oriented art, is not intended.

Emma Stibbon mainly uses the color values ​​black and white with the gray tones in between. In doing so, she draws on the effects of classic black and white photography . The implementation of the image idea is preferably done with white chalk on black primed surfaces. In addition to the chalk drawings on a dark background, ink drawings on paper and large-format woodcuts dominate her work .

The historical context of a place is of fundamental importance to Emma Stibbon. She explores the area to be depicted or the specific building, studies the traditional sources, documents the topographical and historical concrete with photos and drawings that flow into the work process. The artist portrays her picture ideas from a historical perspective and immediately implies that the future of what is depicted is open - changes are likely. This is also that timeless sounding work to people staffage forego much as possible. Nevertheless, the work of the people in the pictures is overwhelming.

This is shown, for example, by her series on the unfinished ruined cities in Armenia (Soviet Housing Plan, 2004), the drawings and woodcuts with Berlin motifs from 2005 to 2009 , pictures from Rome (2009–2011) and works from Potsdam (2012). No less impressive are the landscapes of the series Antarctica (2006–2007) and the Alps series (2008), in which the graceful purity of the ice and snow landscapes seems to be threatened by human activity.

She later traced the destruction of the French Alps by climate change by following the paths of John Ruskins and JMW Turner and recording the changes. If at Ruskin it was still glaciers, at her it was just rocks. Your project is similar to a project by the photographer Daniel Schwartz , which became popular around the same time and captured the destruction in the Swiss Alps .

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • upstairs berlin (eds.): Ian Monroe and Emma Stibbon: Utopian Architecture, Berlin 2005
  • upstairs berlin (ed.): Emma Stibbon. Antarctica , Berlin 2007
  • Andreas Teltow: Emma Stibbon. CityLandscapes / CityLandscapes. In: MuseumsJournal, No. 3, 23rd year, July – September 2009, pp. 64–65, ISSN  0933-0593
  • Andreas Teltow, Dr. Carolyn Wilde: Emma Stibbon: City Landscapes - CityLandscapes. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-86678-275-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emma Stibbon . University of Brighton , accessed January 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Stibbon, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster