Arabella Strachan

Arabella is a textile artist and designer, using contemporary and traditional rug making techniques and other craft practices, combined with timber and non traditional materials.

Through her work she explores repeated patterns or symbols in the landscape that replicate throughout the natural world. Arabella seeks to translate the emotional depth of these places and patterns into visually tactile forms that relate to an inner landscape of emotion and the subconscious mind. Arabella’s background in textile design and love of pattern and embellishment, influence the composition of each work with a desire to create tactile and luxurious works that are a playful mixture of colour and touchable surface.

Arabella graduated from a Bachelor of Arts in Textile Design at RMIT in 2017, and in the following years she has been exhibited in multiple group shows, and twice in solo shows,