About Arabella:
Arabella is a textile and fibre artist living in Melbourne, with a textile and fashion design background. Growing up in the Steiner system Arabella had an early introduction into many craft techniques, and has rediscovered many over the years in her art practice.
Coming from a design background she has recently rediscovered the pleasures and satisfaction one gets from making things by hand. Working with a rug tufting machine embraced after discovering the craft of needle tufting which has the feel of painting and sculpting with yarn and yields many interesting surfaces. Her Inspiration comes from the landscape, the natural world and macro and micro worlds all around.
Craft based art has always been a passion and she happily connects to this tradition of women making and crafting in her family. Her current collection of works are a playful experiment with colour and texture informed by the earth’s visual texture and colour when seen from above.