PRESS RELEASE
Arabella Caccia | Solo Exhibition
Apr 25, 2024 – May 22, 2025
ARABELLA CACCIA
25 April - 22 May 2025
Arabella Caccia draws inspiration from the natural light that generously blesses the southern tip of the African continent where she lives and the wild places to which she travels to find solitude and silence. The feeling of calm and quiet in her work embodies the environment she attempts to creates around her, to find inspiration and feed her creative instincts.
Caccia’s recent work is inspired by an exploration of patterns found in the play of light and dark on natural forms. Her paintings, drawings and sculpture use an abstract language of semi-symbolic glyphs discovered in these patterns. The primary principal underpinning her work is the belief in the importance of process.
Caccia’s work has also found expression through her study of trees, including Baobabs in Botswana, the ancient Milkwood forests of the Western Cape and the indigenous and protected Tsitsikamma forests in the Western and Eastern Cape of South Africa. Her explorations have encompassed detailed drawings of plants and trees and intense study of the patterns created by the bark formations of various indigenous trees. Drawing, taking moulds and printing has led to her uncovering an alphabet of glyphs which are found in all forms, which when further abstracted, form a script-like visual language. Caccia uses these universal forms to create two- and three-dimensional works that aim to echo nature itself.
By immersing herself in wild places, undisturbed by human activity, Caccia seeks to deepen her exploration of the natural world, its flora, rock and land formations, and so refine and challenge the language and the expression of her work.
This is Arabella Caccia’s first solo exhibition with Everard Read London.
