Emma Stibbon says of her practice: ‘I am interested in how the apparently monumental or permanent can be so fragile’.

This solo exhibition features a series of aerial drawings in monochrome relief based on Swiss aerial photographs taken for glacier measurement comparison. In 2007 the artist documented the remains of summer Alpine glacier in an extensive study, which forms this new body of work to be presented at R O O M.

These drawings explore the different media of chalk, graphite and aluminium whose complex layers reveal the dynamic flux of this monumental landscape. A short animation also plays out the advancing and retreating movement of glacial forms.


Emma Stibbon will also be exhibiting with R O O M at ZOO Art Fair in October.


With thanks to: Arts Council England, upstairs berlin, University of Brighton, Dr Giles Brown, Scott Polar Research Institute