Artist Emma Stibbon in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

As we near the anniversary of the National Park Service (August 25, 1916), we're revisiting select Big Blend Radio interviews with women who have been park artists-in-residence through the National Parks Arts Foundation. This 2016 episode features artist Emma Stibbon, Tanya Ortega - Founder of National Parks Arts Foundation, Laura C. Schuster – Division Chief of Cultural Resources for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, and Elizabeth Fien - Executive Director of Friends of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

At the time of this interview in 2016:
Currently Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at the University of Brighton, England, Stibbon studied at Portsmouth College of Art, Goldsmith College and the University of the West of England. An award winning artist with an international reputation, she has held several residencies, including the Derek Hill Scholarship at the British School in Rome (2010). She also participated in the Arctic Circle 2013, an art and science expedition to the Arctic Circle.

Drawing is at the heart of Emma’s practice and she has travelled widely, recording her responses to the physical appearance and psychological impact of natural and built environments. Working from sketches and photographic records, Emma creates stark, monochrome, often large-scale works on paper. Romantic in character, they dramatise the effects of human intervention and natural phenomena on monumental structures and explore the fragility of existence. She has works in public and private collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Scott Polar Research Institute, the University of Cambridge and the Stadtmuseum, Berlin. AK

More at https://www.emmastibbon.com/