Limbs
Limbs Year: 2026 Medium: Black clay fired and galvanised steel wheelbarrow. Dimensions: 140cm x 70cm x 60cm Limbs is a sculptural installation composed of oversized doll parts, hand built in black clay and fired, piled into a galvanised steel wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow’s functional components, its rubber wheel and plastic handles, have been replaced with […]
Custody of the Fragile
Custody of the Fragile Year: 2026 Medium: Group. Organic matter (bumblebee, flying beetle and other insects), silver coating. Dimensions: 2cm x 1cm approx each Custody of the Fragile is made from dried found insects, electroformed in silver. Each creature is real, already dead when gathered. Through electroforming, a skin of silver is grown slowly […]
Cartographies of Care. Press Release
Cartographies of Care 24 May – 7 June only, Southcombe Barn, Dartmoor In partnership with KARST How much longer will we have these lands to care for? In the current crises contexts of warfare and rising sea levels, this exhibition explores gender and ecology through the everyday and peripheral encounters of artist-women and non-binary artists […]
CALL OUT FOR MAKERS – Pangea: Collaborative embroidery workshops with Quiet Down There
CALL OUT FOR MAKERS – Collaborative embroidery workshops with Quiet Down There. Arabel Lebrusan – Pangea – April 2026 Come join us! Pangea is an evolving, socially engaged artwork that takes the form of an embroidered map of the supercontinent. Oceans are stitched using threads made from recycled plastic, while the land is composed of […]
Embracing Independence – The Art Newspaper
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HomeLand
HomeLand Year: 2025 Medium: Site-specific installation of 155 ceramic swallow sculptures with engraved tin beaks on willow wood sticks Dimensions: Variable size Exhibitions: 2025: Dartmoor Clayscapes: Empathetic Journeys through Clay, Southcombe Barn, Devon, UK 2026: Cartographies of Care: Women / Land / Art, Southcombe Barn, Devon, UK READ “HomeLand” by Cassinelli Mills > HomeLand is […]
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 […]