Freehold
Freehold Year: 2015 (created under the pseudonym Arabel Rosillo de Blas) Medium: Site-specific installation. Soap tiles, carbolic soap, brick dust on paper and wood, salvaged furniture, hair drawings, mirror, photo transfer, reclaimed doll’s house. Size: Variable Location: Freehold Exhibition (solo). St Albans Museum, St. Albans, UK. July – September 2015. Commissioned by UH Galleries, with support […]
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 […]
Weaving a Web. Milton Keynes Gallery
Workshop. Friday 21 February. In collaboration with artist Aaron Head. Based on a series of simple weaving techniques, the kids were able to create a series of colourful abstract weaves that grew into the walls of a magical room. They were able to step inside the room as these colourful webs were spun throughout the day […]
Techie laced words
Laced Words. Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts. 22nd February 2013, 1St Paul’s square. Bedford. UK Audiovisual work. I collaborated with artist Kathy Hinde to create the video projection and sound piece Laced Words. It was premiered on Friday 22nd February, for the opening night of Bedford Creative Arts Almanac Festival. This piece was a development of the temporary […]
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. Making sessions
Workshop/making sessions. February 2012-May 2012. These voluntary sessions took placed at Bedford Creative Arts, where I was creating the panels for the Lace in Place Installation. The panels were handmade over a period of 11 weeks by twenty-eight local people, some of them members of the Aragon Lacemakers group but half with no previous experience of lacemaking, […]
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 […]
The making of Lace in Place
Large Lace: A Choreography of People and Pattern
Large Lace: A Choreography of People and Pattern Year: 2012 Medium: Collaborative performance at Bunyan Hall. Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts, with the production of a large piece of woven fabric. Dimensions: 200cm x 150cm x 20cm Location: Performed at Bunyan Hall, April 2012. Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts. Large Lace: A Choreography of People […]
Fence ragging
Fence Ragging Year: 2011 Medium: Guerilla textiles. Guerilla action. Social engagement project. Site-specific installation. Textile, fence. Dimensions: 5m x 2m x 0.1m Location: The Big Lunch, July 2011, Midland Road. Bedford. United Kingdom. Project developed in collaboration with artists Kezia Merrick and Dawn Giles. Fence Raggins is a community project created in collaboration with artist Kezia […]