About

In September 2019 Emma Stibbon (b. 1962) undertook a residency in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, which is situated in the Arctic Ocean. Svalbard is now known to be the fastest-warming place on the planet. Stibbon’s response to this residency was a body of new work which includes two new prints, entitled Peninsula Range, which depicts a snow covered mountainside and Isfjorden, Svalbard, which portrays a range of mountains as the sun sets behind it, a view that Stibbon was able to enjoy from the studio in Svalbard each day.

Stibbon’s approach to landscape is driven by a desire to …