Title: Offering Medium: Two colour lithograph Size: 56 x 76 cm Edition size: 20
Erika Hibbert's work is lyrical, technically accomplished and often biographical.The political and social accents in her work are derived from her own life, so that in her work, the personal is the political. Hibbert demonstrates little interest in themes or subjects beyond her own orbit – but the surprise of the work is how the private and intimate examination of a life resonates with universal themes. In a process of understanding herself better, coming to terms with people she is connected to, and as a cathartic method of expelling her fears, she pulls and picks at her life’s experiences, measuring, weighing up and sifting, searching. Her artwork reflects a striving for balance between formal aesthetic considerations and the artist's intellectual response to relationships and events in her life.