The University of Brighton Gallery & Sallis Benney Theatre is that shiny, window-filled place residing on Grand Parade, otherwise known as "that bit of road from The Level down to the seafront" (map below). On Friday an exhibition opened up here full of "powerful works" - more specifically also known as pictures. 'Stadtlandschaften' by Emma Stibbons, we can inform non-German speakers with the wonderful help of freetranslation.com translates as "City Landscapes."
Focusing on the city of Berlin (which is quoted as being quite dynamic), her work "spans the extremes of the natural and the urban landscape – from sheer mountains, and vast glacial seas to abandoned buildings or grand panoramas." According to quotes Berlin's also "dynamic" and a huge driving force behind her work.
In "often large scale" work (with focus on landscapes of Antartica and the Alps, both rather large themselves) "the work is produced through a range of processes, including woodblock, chalk on blackboard or graphite on gesso. In all her work drawing is fundamental and suggests a sense of the strength, resilience and yet ultimate fragility of place."
There's only so much pomp you can really give an artist and already the paper-based artist has amassed a list of great residencies and awards (very good), and a string of exhibitions at the Stadtmusuem, Berlin, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge and R O O M London (the latter a bit more than just a room we hear).
And all for free, horray!
The exhibition runs until January 30th and is open today and from all day between Monday-Saturday from 10am-5pm.
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