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 […]
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
The Paleozoic Forest of Jewels
The Paleozoic forest of Jewels Year: 2023 Medium: Installation. Wheelbarrows, coal, gold plated silver, gold plated copper on a fabric rose Dimensions: Variable size, 2m x 3m approx Exhibition: Royal College of Art, June 2023 Installation made with two rusty wheelbarrows, filled with traditional house coal. One features a lifesize golden rose and the other […]
I’m mourning all the lost bodies across time and space
I’m mourning all the lost bodies across time and space Year: 2023 Medium: Natural rose flower with solid silver coating. Unique Dimensions: 70cm x 10cm x 10cm. Exhibition: Royal College of Art, June 2023 In private collection. I’m mourning all the lost bodies across time and space evokes sorrow for the bodies that have fallen […]
Bituminus Pulmonis Canaria
Bituminus Pulmonis Canaria Year: 2023 Medium: Recycled Glass, coal powder, steel Dimensions: Nine glass elements of 10xm x 25cm approx Exhibition: Royal College of Art, June 2023 In private collection.
Electric Apron
Electric Apron Year: 2014 – 2021 Medium: 1200 copper components, copper cable, fused plug Dimensions: 130cm x 50cm x2.5cm Exhibition: About Hands, 9th March- 4th April 2023. Koop Projects, Brighton, UK Electric Apron (2014-2021) is one of a number of Lebrusan’s works about the domestic. The copper apron depicts a Viana’s heart (top) and 2 […]
Joias
Joias (Jewels) Year: 2023 Medium: Celebratory coin made in brass Dimensions: 25mm x25mm x4mm Exhibition: Royal College of Art, June 2023 Joias is a celebratory coin, featuring a portrait of Eliane Mello and her 6-month-old unborn child who died at the Brumandinho iron mine disaster in Brazil in 2019.
Mother and Child
Mother and Child Year: 2023 Medium: Iron plaques & table with Brazilian chita fabric Dimensions: 70x50x90cm Exhibition: Royal College of Art, June 2023 Mother and Child is a set of 2 plaques made in iron, featuring a portrait of Eliane Mello and her 6-month-old unborn child who died at the Brumandinho iron mine disaster in […]
He does not ask about my age when I sell the gold to him
He does not ask about my age when I sell the gold to him Year: 2022 Medium: Silver, mercury, gold leaf, brass, glass & wood display Dimensions: 20cm x 15cm x15cm “Much of the mercury released into the environment is the result of small-scale and artisanal gold mining (ASGM). Mercury used in the gold separation […]