Alumni News: Artist Emma Stibbon will present her first large-scale show at a major UK institution opening in May 2024

Emma Stibbon conducting fieldwork in Svalbard, 2022. Photo by Tristan Duke

Emma Stibbon, Melting Ice | Rising Tides at Towner Eastbourne, 9 May to 15 September 2024

Past Artica resident artist Emma Stibbon will present her first large-scale show at a major UK institution opening in May 2024. Stibbon will create an immersive experience for the viewer, aiming to act as a stark reminder that the seemingly remote events of polar ice sheet melt is directly connected with the changes being witnessed in a more local and familiar UK landscape. The exhibition will look at the warming environment of the polar regions and the impact this is ultimately having on the changing UK coastline, focusing on the Sussex shoreline local to Towner.

For a number of years Emma Stibbon has been observing and recording the precariousness of the polar ice sheets and glaciers and the profound effect that ice melt is having on global sea level rise. Melting Ice | Rising Tides will be a culmination of this work, making important connections between the apparent remote extremes of our planet and our local environment. 

Congratulations Emma 👏

Emma Stibbon was resident at Artica in 2019, nominated by the Queen Sonja Print Award and returned to Svalbard in 2022 to take part in the Arctic Circle residency. For further details about the exhibition at Towner Eastbourne see here.