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Arabel Lebrusan’s artistic practice often treads the fine line between ART and JEWELLERY. Through the medium of natural precious materials like traceable diamonds and rubies, recycled silver and artisanal Fairmined Gold, she collaborates with skilled European craftspeople to create artistic responses to social injustices, ecological concerns and feminist viewpoints.
Year: 2023
Medium: Found axe, sterling silver, natural diamonds and rubies
Dimensions: 40cm x 15cm x2cm
Exhibited: London Art Fair 2024, 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 from mining diamonds. This artwork is part of Lebrusan’s body of work titled “The Book of Horrors and Hopes,” serving as a diary chronicling the stories she’s encountered throughout her jewellery career and her artistic responses, aiming to somehow digest its brutality.
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Year: 2022
Medium: Silver, mercury, gold leaf, brass, glass & wood display
Dimensions: 20cm x 15cm x 15cm
Supported by Professor Mark P. Hector (Dean of Dentistry and Boyd Professor of Dental Surgery), School of Dentistry, University of Dundee, Scotland
“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 process (known as “amalgamation”) results in the discharge of an estimated 1,000 tons of mercury annually, representing about 30% of the world’s anthropogenic mercury releases, according to United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). Once mercury pollution reaches waterways, it's transformed into methylmercury - one of the most toxic organic compounds and a powerful neurotoxin."
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Year: 2021
Medium: Set of 275 rings made of metal from police-confiscated knives and other artefacts.
Exhibited: Blunt Blades, The Higgins Bedford, 2021 – 2022; London Art Fair 2024.
Knife Murders 275/275 England and Wales is a set of 275 rings made using the metal from police-confiscated knives and other artefacts. The rings represent homicides in England and Wales from April 2019 until March 2020. There are 10 small-sized rings to represent murders of children (those aged under 16 years), 50 medium-sized slender rings to represent women homicides, and 215 wide and large-sized rings to represent men homicides. Each ring is laser inscribed with the edition number AL KM20 1/275, AL KM 20 2/275, etc.
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Year: 2014 – 2021
Medium: 1,200 copper components, copper cable, fused plug
Dimensions: 130cm x 50cm x 2.5cm
Exhibited: Koop Projects, 2023
Electric Apron (2014-2021) is one of a number of Lebrusan’s works exploring the domestic. The copper apron depicts a Viana’s heart (top) and 2 butcher’s knives, within each is displayed the antibiotic formulas for Laidlomycin and Tylosin, used to treat beef cattle and chicken. Traditionally, it's women who are subjected to the domestic space, and in some parts of the world, these expectations remain unbending. Creating an apron with a potentially lethal current, this work challenges the notions of the domestic, revealing the threatening aspects of a home and its relation to the food industry.
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From the Manuela series.
Year: 2007
Medium: 3,000 articulated silver components
Dimensions: 184cm x 56cm
Exhibited: Object as a Muse, Crafts Council touring exhibition, 2008 - 2010
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From the Manuela series.
Year: 2007
Medium: Sterling silver and leather
Dimensions: 300cm x 15cm approx
Memory – individual or collective – is one of the fundamental pillars of Lebrusan’s practice. It allows her to dig deeply into how she experiences life, her environment, the objects and people she engages with. Weaving different times that connect personal truths, Choker encourages viewers to tap into their reservoir of memory and draw links between the past, present and future.
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(My grandma gave me a pocket knife that she always had in her handbag)
From the Manuela series.
Year: 2007
Dimensions: 15cm x 3cm x 3cm
Medium: Sterling silver, freshwater pearls, leather.
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