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 […]
Tales of Coal
Tales of Coal Year: 2023 Medium: Socially engaged art. Figures made with British coal, mantelpiece and publication Dimensions: First printed publication of 500 copies. Variable installation and A5 publication Exhibition: Royal College of Art, June 2023
Beheaded and Quartered
Beheaded and quartered Participatory Performance Year: 19th March, 2023 Dimensions: Variable Exhibition: Hang, Drawn, and Quartered. 19th March 2023. Mother’s Day. Standpoint Gallery See press release: https://www.arabellebrusanart.com/hung-drawn-quartered-press-release/ “Beheaded and quartered” appropriates these visual words to provoke and question women’s entanglement with caring responsibilities. The artist gives permission to herself and to other women in the […]
Toxic Fragments. Workshop I
Toxic Fragments. Harvesting empathy and coping with ecological grief through touching Year: 2022 Medium: Social engaging workshop Dimensions: Variable Location: Fishing Quarter Gallery. Brighton Seafront. 7th & 10th July 2022 Toxic Fragments is a workshop where participants handle clay and make small objects while talking about the clay’s origins. In this workshop, Arabel is exploring […]
Tales of Blunt Blades
Tales of Blunt Blades Year: 2021 Medium: Publication. A5 Paperback of short stories about 43 selected blades by creative writers. First print of 1000 copies Dimensions: 148 x 210 mm Exhibition: Blunt Blades, November 2021 – November 2022. The Higgins Bedford. Bedford. UK. This exhibition is realised with the support of The Higgins Bedford, Bedford Borough Council […]
Toxic Waves. Performance I
Toxic Waves I. Harvesting empathy and coping with ecological grief through drawing Year: 2021 Medium: Digital Performance Dimensions: Variable Location: CCA, Brighton, UK. Tuesday, 28 Sep 2021, 4.00 – 5.30pm (BST) Toxic Waves I is an online participatory drawing performance that took place in September 2021 at Brighton CCA. Participants were invited to draw waves […]
Blunt Blades Exchange
Blunt Blades Exchange Year: April 2021 Medium: Social Engaging Art Project with support from Women’s Support Centre Surrey and Quiet Down There Dimensions: variable Blunt Blades Exchange (2021) is a social engagement art project wherein police-confiscated knives were repurposed into rings and given to 9 women at the Women’s Support Centre Surrey in spring 2021. […]
Laced Words
Laced Words Year: 2013 Medium: Video & Audio Dimensions: Variable Location: No1 St Paul’s Square, Alamanac Festival, Bedford, 2013. Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts Arabel Rosillo de Blas & Kathy Hinde. Laced Words elegantly laced the side of a derelict with light and sound. The work celebrates the craftsmanship of lacemakers and site history in […]
Large Lace – Fabric
Large Lace – Fabric Year: 2012 Medium: Sculpture. Woven fabric, polyester, cardboard rolls From the performance “Large Lace”. Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts. Performed at Bunyan Hall, April 2012. Dimensions: 200cm x 150cm x 20cm Large Lace: A Choreography of People and Pattern is a performance to explore the challenging leap in physical scale of […]
Lace in Place
Lace in Place Year: 2012 Medium: Site-specific Installation. Nylon rope. Dimensions: Variable Location: 1St Paul’s Square. Bedford. UK. From May 2012 – February 2013. Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts. Photo Credit: Richard Davies Deborah Dean’s text about this work HERE See the making of Lace in Place HERE Lace in Place is a set of […]