Visual Biography

Arabel Lebrusan, also known as Rosillo de Blas, (Madrid, Spain 1974), is an artist whose sculpture, jewellery and site-specific interventions function as social commentary. Focusing her lens on material culture and the ‘feminine’ tactile environment, she investigates wider issues of power relationships, exploitation and inequality.

She initially studied Gemmology and Goldsmithing in Spain followed by a BA in Sculpture at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, graduating in 1999, after spending the last years at Hogeschool van de Kunsten in Utrecht, on an Erasmus exchange program. After her studies, Arabel lived in the Netherlands and worked as a freelance accessories designer travelling extensively through the Far East where she combined her design work with art exhibitions. Since, she has exhibited at galleries and site specific locations in Rotterdam, Berlin, Check Republic, The Philippines, Canary Islands, London, Milton Keynes, etc…

In 2005, Lebrusan moved to London to complete an MA at Central Saint Martins, on ethical jewellery. Her extensive background in jewellery design, sustainable manufacturing and craftsmanship sets her in strong stead to explore associations between extraction of natural resources (like diamond- and gold-mining) and broader, related issues of power, exploitation and material wealth. She has used her own ethical jewellery designer brand, LebrusanStudio, to campaign extensively to make the jewellery world one that is more sustainable, and has been awarded numerous accolades for her pioneering work in this field. Her TEDx talk on ethical jewellery was a significant milestone in her campaigning career; an opportunity to project her voice far and wide.

She currently combines her art practice with overseeing her successful ethical jewellery brand.

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