23 October - 22 November 2025

Emma Stibbon

Melting Ice | Rising Tides

"I’m increasingly aware that I am living through a time of unprecedented change and that we need to understand what we are doing, and what we stand to lose.”

This October, Cristea Roberts Gallery will open Melting Ice | Rising Tides, a solo exhibition by Emma Stibbon, presented to a London audience for the very first time, following its initiation at Towner Eastbourne and tour to the Burton Art Gallery, Bideford.

Monumental watercolours, drawings and a site-specific installation bring us to the frontlines of climate change, connecting vanishing polar ice and surging sea-levels with the alarming rate of erosion taking place on UK coastlines.

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Exhibition open until 22 November 2025.

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Selected Works

Emma Stibbon

Gjertsenodden, Svalbard, 2024

Intaglio print on Somerset Satin 300gsm paper

Paper and Image: 39.7 x 100.8 cm - 15 5/8 x 39 3/4 in

Edition of 35

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Emma Stibbon

Ice Front I, 2020

Watercolour, graphite and aluminium powder on Saunders Waterford 300gsm paper

Paper and Image: 153.0 x 185.0 cm - 60 1/4 x 72 7/8 in

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“I feel working from landscape today has never been more pressing. I can see that many glaciated sites I am revisiting are changing beyond recognition. Often when I am out working in the field I have a sense of witness. I want to get down on the page the particularities of an iceberg or glacier front.”

Emma Stibbon

Berg II, 2023

Watercolour and graphite on Saunders Waterford 300gsm paper

Paper and Image: 123.0 x 180.5 cm - 48 3/8 x 71 in

Emma Stibbon

Eastbourne, Sea groyne, 2023

Ink and sea salt on Saunders Waterford 300gsm paper

Paper and Image: 102.5 x 249.0 cm - 40 3/8 x 98 in

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“I want to relate the materials I’ve gathered while at a location…to impart something of this physical experience of place to the viewer.”

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Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice | Rising Tides

Emma Stibbon tours her exhibition at Cristea Roberts Gallery, Melting Ice | Rising Tides.

Exhibition Book

Purchase this 72-page hard-back publication, published to coincide with Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice | Rising Tides.
The book contains a foreword by former Green Party leader, Caroline Lucas, as well as an interview with the artist by curator Sara Cooper and an essay on the sublimity of landscape by Richard Fisher. Tucked inside the back cover is a photographic pull-out image of Stibbon's installation Rock Fall, 2024.

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