Event

Emma Stibbon and journalist and author Richard Fisher invite you to a conversation discussing the sublime, deep time and how artwork bears witness to changes brought about by climate change.

Fisher contributed an essay The Sublimity of Boundless Landscapes to the recent publication Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice Rising Tides. Fisher’s first book – The Long View – explores the dangers of short-termism, the psychology of time perception, and the personal benefits of long-term thinking (Wildfire/Headline, March 2023).

Stibbon and Fisher will both be available after their talk for a book signing.

Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice | Rising Tides will stay open from 5pm to 6.15pm for talk attendees to view with an exhibition ticket.

This event has been programmed alongside the exhibition Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice | Rising Tides by Towner Eastbourne / University of Brighton and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

This event will have BSL interpretation and live captioning.

The conversation will take place seated in Towner Cinema. 

We have a budget available to make this event as accessible as possible – this can include further interpretation services or other access arrangements we can meet to enable you to participate. If you require access arrangements, please email programme@townereastbourne.org.uk two weeks before the event date so that we can book a service if needed.

Emma Stibbon RA works primarily in drawing and print on paper depicting environments that are undergoing transformation including the polar regions, volcanoes, deserts, coastal and urban locations. Her approach to landscape is driven by a desire to understand how human activity and the forces of nature shape our surroundings.  She does this through location-based research often working alongside geologists and scientists, and in the studio where information is transformed into large scale drawn and printed artworks.

Richard Fisher is a senior journalist at the BBC, the author of a non-fiction book called The Long View, and a lecturer in science communication at University College London. He is also a speaker, consultant and freelance writer (New York Times, The Observer, Vox, New Scientist.) Previously, he was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT in the US, a managing editor at the BBC, and a features and news editor at New Scientist.

*Ticket prices

£15 Standard

£14 Over 65

£7 Under 25/ Student

£7 Disabled Admission

£7 Universal or Pension Credit recipients

£0 Essential Companion (this discount will be automatically added when 'Essential Compainion' is ticked in Other Preferences - go to My Account to edit your preferences)