Arabel Lebrusan

HomeLand

HomeLand Year: 2025 Medium: Site-specific installation of  155 ceramic swallow sculptures with engraved tin beaks on willow wood sticks Dimensions: Variable size Exhibition: Dartmoor Clayscapes: Empathetic Journeys through Clay, Southcombe Barn, Devon, UK HomeLand is a site-specific installation of approximately 140 ceramic swallows with hand-engraved tin beaks; symbols of migration, memory and belonging. The sculptures […]

Arabel Lebrusan unveils socially engaged installation HomeLAND at Devon’s Southcombe Barn

Leading visual artist and creative campaigner Arabel Lebrusan revealed the site-specific installation of 100+ ceramic swallows with engraved tin beaks during a recent programme of arts called Dartmoor Clayscapes: Empathetic Journeys through Clay. The sculptures, described by Lebrusan as “symbols of migration, memory and belonging,” were developed through a series of co-creation clay and tin […]

Contemporary artist Arabel Lebrusan announces artist’s open house in Brighton

Arabel Lebrusan – leading visual artist, jewellery designer and creative campaigner – welcomes visitors to The Palmtree on Brighton’s Fiveways Artist Open House Trail in May 2025. Address:Venue #23, 15 Hollingbury Crescent, Brighton, BN1 7HD Opening Hours:10:00 – 17:00Saturdays 3rd, 10th & 17th MaySundays 4th, 11th & 18th MayBank Holiday Mondays 5th & 26th May […]

Knives that No Longer Cut

  Arabel Lebrusan’s solo exhibition titled Blunt Blades depicts perpetual transfiguration of thought into matter, matter into function and function into meaning. The exhibition is composed of stages and stagings of this cycle of transformation where one becomes the other, expanding on to the realms of other realities and personal perspectives.  At the heart of the project […]

About Blunt Blades. In conversation with Fatoş Üstek

December 2022 Fatos Ustek (FU): What is your quest in art-making? Arabel Lebrusan (AL): I grew up surrounded by female ancestors – my grandma, great-aunty, and second cousins – and they were always busy transforming things. They converted cooking oil into soap, blood into food, milk into cheese. They harvested the land, washed in the river and created […]

The House with Cosmic Roots

The House with Cosmic Roots Year: 2024 Medium: Preparatory Study for Public Realm Installation at Historic Manor House. Digital image. Dimensions: variable Contact me if you are interested in commissioning this site-related artwork.

Femicides 2022 – 23

Femicides Year: 2024 Medium: Installation of 69 tiles made of plaster and broken china Dimensions: Variable size, approx. 2m x 2.4m  Exhibition: Hysterical: Radical Creativity with the Hysterical Collective, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK   Femicides addresses the gender-based murder of women or girls by men. This wall piece consists of 69 tiles made from […]

You Will Be The Messenger

You will be the messenger Year: 2023Medium: Found axe, sterling silver, natural diamonds and rubies Dimensions: 40cm x 15cm x2cmExhibition: London Art Fair with Koop Projects From 1991 to 2002, Sierra Leone endured a devastating civil war marked by brutal conflicts over diamond territories. Thousands of men and children faced mutilation with axes, preventing them […]