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 […]
Meet Hysterical’s Next Gems – Bricks Magazine

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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 […]
Caressing the river Mersey

Caressing the river Mersey Year: 2023 Medium: Installation. Mix of rocks and other cement aggregates collected along the River Mersey (Manchester), and jesmonite Dimensions: 90cm x 90cm Exhibition: Cura. Smolensky Gallery, Manchester
Caress

Caress Year: 2022 Medium: Two screen video Dimensions: Variable size Exhibition: Cura. Smolensky Gallery, Manchester
CALL OUT FOR MAKERS – WOMEN & PEOPLE OF MARGINALISED GENDERS

CALL OUT FOR MAKERS – WOMEN & PEOPLE OF MARGINALISED GENDERS Arabel Lebrusan – Femicides –November 2023 Come join me, artist Arabel Lebrusan, in creating 81 tiles from broken crockery and plaster for the new artwork “Femicides.” “Femicides” addresses the gender-based murder of women or girls by men. This wall piece comprises 81 tiles made […]
A black umbilical cord; cosmic politics of worldmaking

A black umbilical cord; cosmic politics of worldmaking Year: 2023 Medium: Performative poem Dimensions: 6:00 min Exhibition: Royal College of Art, June 2023