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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]