Journal 25 July 2024 by Nicky Diamond
Exhibition at Everard Read – London Summer Show ‘Southern Light’
Southern Light Exhibition Everard Read, London July 18 to September 7, 2024 Visit Everard Read, London where I will be exhibiting selected embroidery pieces from ‘To Lake Tanganyika and back’ as part of the Summer Show 'Southern Light - a [...]
Journal 6 February 2024 by Nicky Diamond
Solo Exhibition Everard Read, Franschhoek: To Lake Tanganyika And Back
To Lake Tanganyika And Back Exhibition Everard Read, Leeu Estate, Franschhoek OPENING 2 MARCH 2024 In early July 2023 Johann and I embarked on a road trip across Southern Africa with a bakkie and a rooftop tent, it took us [...]
Journal 5 November 2021 by Nicky Diamond
Constellation now showing at Everard Read Art Galley in Franschoek
CONSTELLATION Everard Read, Franschhoek 23 October - 15 November 2021 A new a exhibition by Arabella Caccia is now showing at the Everard Read Art Gallery in Franschhoek. CONSTELLATION is an installation of unique bronze sculptures and embroideries from Arabella [...]
Journal 22 June 2020 by arabella
Splash : Stitching in Time
Embroidery is an ancient art form, traditionally it is a slow meditative process. Embroidery was used for decorative additions to clothing or hangings and is usually made up of images steeped with symbolism. Embroidered items of significance both religious and domestic […]
Journal 5 February 2020 by arabella
The Book Of Nature
This work is made up of 15 needlepoint tapestries so far, they are a reference to kneelers found in churches and places of worship. These were familiar objects to me as a child, I saw them in the small local […]
Journal 7 November 2019 by arabella
The Beginning
The Beginning is a bronze sculpture constructed out of glyph like shapes that come from Arabella’s alphabet of forms. The alphabet is a collection of 50 shapes, that have been distilled from shapes found and repeated in all aspects of […]
Journal 10 August 2018 by arabella
The second half of 2018
The following article appeared in Slow Magazine in August [smartslider3 slider=3] Click here to view the full magazine. For those who are in the Northern Hemisphere Everard Read London will have a few of my new sculptures as […]
Journal, Performance 27 March 2018 by Nicky Diamond
Everard Read Franschhoek Sound and Paint Performance
Featuring Arabella Caccia and Jessica Bailey, this sound and paint performance was filmed at Everard Read Franschhoek. Production Credits Director/DOP: Jack Daniel Mason 2nd Camera: Martina Monti Sound Design: Benjamin McCarthy Editor: Jack Daniel Mason
Journal 15 March 2018 by arabella
Without Words
Without Words a solo exhibition of painting and sculpture by Arabella Caccia Time: Satuday 24 March 2018 at 12:00 – 16 April 2018 Performance: 31st March 2018 at 10:30 Paint By: Arabella Caccia Sound By: Jessica Bailey Place: 20 […]
Journal, Performance 18 November 2017 by arabella
Arabella Caccia Studio Sound and Paint Performance featuring Jessica Bailey
In Arabella Caccia’s studio at 196 Victoria Road, Woodstock, Caccia paints a painting in performance with cellist Jessica Bailey. They spontaneously improvise together. The performance lasted 3 hours and was filmed by Jack Mason. The painting remained on the wall […]
Journal, Performance 15 September 2017 by arabella
Everard Read/Circa Sound and Paint Performance
As part of the Cubicle Series Exhibition at Everard Read / Circa Arabella Caccia painted a painting in performance with cellist Jessica Bailey. They spontaneously improvised responding to one another. The performance was recorded on film and after 4 consecutive […]
Journal 4 August 2017 by Nicky Diamond
Into the Light / Circa / Everard Read Cape Town/ 14 -26 August 2017
Into the Light is an exhibition of Arabella’s recent work. It is inspired by an exploration of patterns found in the play of light and dark on natural forms. Her paintings and sculptures use an abstract language of semi-symbolic glyphs […]
Journal 23 May 2017 by Nicky Diamond
One of Five Elements
Part of the Everard Read Franschhoek 2017 exhibition, this sculpture is one of the Five Elements (Fire, Air, Water, Earth and Wood). The concept is that they stand together in a circle separated by enough space to walk between them. […]
Journal 12 April 2017 by Nicky Diamond
Weathered Rock Formations, Nature’s Valley
My fascination with patterns found in bark has extended to the kinds of patterns made by the erosion of rock formations . In April I visited Nature’s Valley where I took silicon moulds of some of the pitted and striated […]
Journal 28 February 2017 by Nicky Diamond
Silicon Moulds in Botswana
On the 16 th January 2016 the great Chapman’s Baobab tree fell down after commanding a majestic place on the edge of the Makgadikdadi Plains, for some say as long as 2000 years. I visited the tree in 2014 and […]
Journal 23 February 2017 by Nicky Diamond
Kalk Bay Artists Collective
At my studio at 11 Windsor Road, we have formed The Kalk Bay Artist’s Collective, we are 4 artists, Chris Bladen, Jean Tiran, Pete Strydom and myself. There are studios, a foundry and an exhibition space. Please have a look […]
Journal 18 October 2016 by Nicky Diamond
Evening Sculpture Walk, The Gallery at Grande Provence, Franschhoek.
On Saturday 22nd October at 7 pm Arabella will discuss the evolution of her tree inspired sculptures from the Silver trees to the Ultramarine Glyph .
Journal 6 September 2016 by Nicky Diamond
Self-i Group Show @ Gallery at Grande Provence Franschhoek
Please join us for the opening of the Self – I group exhibition on Saturday, 10th September at 11h00. The works I have on this show pose the question of the significance of the self in […]
Journal 27 August 2016 by Nicky Diamond
Sight Revisited
Works from the Sight Collection a collaboration between Arabella and Deborah Da Silva will be shown at Art in the Yard in Franschhoek from 3 September 2016. www.artintheyard.co.za
Journal 23 June 2016 by Nicky Diamond
Exhibition at Provision Foods Woodstock
25th June Arabella hosted a dinner with Maia Du Plessis at Provision Foods Woodstock, with a exhibition of mixed media drawings on hemp. The theme of the work was Flight. Private dinners can be booked at this amazing, edgy venue through […]
Journal 14 June 2016 by Nicky Diamond
Winter Show at Everard Read Cape Town
An abstract painting inspired by time working in the Tsitsikamma forest where Arabella drew and printed and took silicone moulds of the bark of trees. This painting is inspired by the patterns created in the bark of the Oteniqua Yellowwood Tree. […]
Journal 25 June 2015 by Nicky Diamond
Grootbos exhibition at Knysna Fine Art Gallery
Arabella’s Grootbos collection of paintings is making its way from Grande Provence in Franchhoek to Knysna, and will be on display at Knysna Fine Art Gallery. The exhibition will run from 26 June until 26 July 2015, showcasing an array of […]
Journal 20 February 2015 by Nicky Diamond
Grootbos Exhibition at The Gallery at Grande Provence
Arabella’s Grootbos exhibition at the Gallery at Grande Provence on the 7th of February 2015 was a great success. Art lovers from across Cape Town enjoyed a balmy summers evening in Franschhoek enjoying the art on display that included Arabella’s […]
Journal 20 February 2015 by Nicky Diamond
Grootbos Exhibition in the Media
On 7 February 2015, The Gallery at Grande Provence hosted an exhibition of Arabella’s work, include recent sculptures, paintings and drawings with the centrepiece of the exhibition being the monumental work “Grootbos”. The Cape Times and Die Burger featured the […]
Journal 9 January 2015 by Nicky Diamond
Grootbos to be exhibited at The Gallery at Grande Provence
Arabella’s latest work is to be exhibited at the The Gallery at Grande Provence in Franschhoek in collaboration with Knysna Fine Art Gallery, with the opening taking place on Saturday 7 February 2015. The exhibition will include recent sculptures, paintings […]
Journal 4 November 2014 by Nicky Diamond
Forest Collection
In August, Arabella was fortunate enough to stay in the unrivalled Grootbos Private Nature Reserve, close to Hermanus. It was here that she found inspiration for her latest body of work, Forest, a collection of drawings and paintings. Nestled between […]
Journal 10 June 2014 by Nicky Diamond
The Baobabs
Adansonia Digitata, commonly known as the Baobab Tree, is indigenous to Southern Africa. These trees are the oldest living things on the African continent. In March Arabella travelled to Botswana to get to know more about these magnificent, ancient plants. […]
Journal 2 April 2014 by Nicky Diamond
New Collection – South African Landscapes
Arabella’s latest body of work, South African Landscapes, was created in and around Cape Town. It includes vistas of False Bay, views of Table Mountain from Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, the open spaces of the Karoo and the vast Oteniqua and […]
Journal 3 September 2013 by Nicky Diamond
Arabella’s art and lifestyle in St James featured in August Get It Magazine
Arabella was featured in two articles in the August 2013 edition of Cape Town’s Get It Magazine, with a focus on her work, lifestyle, inspiration, passions and family. To view The Essence of Arabella Caccia article, download the PDF: ArabellaCaccia_GetItSEPT2013_edition […]
Journal 25 June 2013 by Nicky Diamond
Work to be shown at Everard Read and In Toto, Johannesburg
The Sleeping Girl is a continuation of Arabella’s Reflection on Life collection started in 2012, and will be shown at The Everard Read Gallery in Johannesburg, along with Behind and Quiet from the same body of work. Arabella’s two new […]
Journal 25 June 2013 by Nicky Diamond
Arabella adds new work to Portrait Collection
Arabella has added two new bodies of work to her Portrait collection that are part of a series based on characters from Shakespeare’s plays. The two new paintings are of Hermione from A Winter’s Tale and Portia from Merchant Of […]
Journal 8 March 2013 by Nicky Diamond
Arabella’s unique painting technique and methodology
Arabella gives us an intimate look into the manner in which she immerses herself into each work of art for her Reflections of Life / Thread collection: Both the method and the subject of these drawings and paintings go […]
Journal 21 November 2012 by Nicky Diamond
Arabella’s work in progress on her new body of work “The Thread”
Arabella Caccia is currently busy with her new body of work “The Thread”, paintings and drawings of nude figures. The figures float alone in undefined spaces. They evoke a quiet, introverted mood of contemplation. Some hold a red thread in their […]
Journal 11 September 2012 by Nicky Diamond
Arabella teaches Art Lessons @ “The Boudoir”, Casa Labia in Muizenberg
Arabella Caccia offers art classes on Wednesday mornings from 10am-1pm at the beautiful Casa Labia in Muizenberg in one of their elegant rooms, “The Boudoir” The lessons will focus on the human form and she will instruct in […]
Journal 31 August 2012 by Nicky Diamond
Arabella’s “Being” painting goes on auction for charity SAEP at 2012 JDI Ball
“Being” from Arabella’s latest collection of the same name, was one of the main auction items at the 2012 Cape Town JDI ball held on Saturday 25 August at Kelvin Grove. The event raised R175,000 in aid of the South […]
Journal 14 August 2012 by Nicky Diamond
Arabella returns home from Florence
Arabella has recently returned home from a month-long stay in Florence where she studied portraiture, expanding on her already knowledgeable base. The studio she was based at employs a “sight – size” technique for painting and drawing, one that was […]
Journal 9 July 2012 by Nicky Diamond
Arabella travels to Florence to study portraiture
Arabella is currently in Florence for a month, where she is studying portraiture and employing a “sight-size” technique for painting and drawing. Having lived in Florence as a child, it was the place she first began to […]
Journal 26 June 2012 by Nicky Diamond
Arabella’s work to be shown at everard read’s winter exhibition
Everard Read galleries in Johannesburg and Cape Town will be hosting their mixed show winter exhibitions, opening on Thursday 28 June 2012. Arabella’s painting Found from her Worship collection will be shown in Johannesburg, and Bird on White Ground […]
Journal 12 June 2012 by Nicky Diamond
Arabella contributes to Light From Africa Foundation
Earlier this year Arabella worked with Light From Africa, a foundation that generates critically required funding for South Africa’s vulnerable children. They achieve this through fundraising and through the sale of art of local designers and artists. Being a mother […]
Journal 4 June 2012 by Nicky Diamond
Arabella Caccia’s Nudes I & II on auction at Stephan Welz & Co
Two of Arabella Caccia’s ink and pastel drawings, Nudes I and II from her 2001 Nude collection went up for auction at Stephan Welz and Co. On 29 and 30 May 2012, the decorative and fine arts auction took place […]
Journal 31 May 2012 by Nicky Diamond
Sight IX on display at In Toto gallery’s “The Other World” Exhibition
Sight IX from Arabella Caccia’s Sight collection, will be on display at In Toto’s latest exhibition,”The Other World”, running from the 31st of May until the 5th of July 2012. Collaborating with Otto De Jager, In Toto Gallery presents […]
Journal 2 April 2012 by Nicky Diamond
Arabella Caccia Exhibits recent work at Roedean
Excerpt from a review in the S.A.O.R.A. Magazine – Roedean Annual Alumni magazine – March 2012 brought Arabella Caccia back to Roedean with an exhibition of her recent artwork in the Sumner Block. It was a particularly special event […]
Journal 28 February 2012 by Nicky Diamond
all women exhibition at In Toto, February 2012, shows painting from Being collection
Girl Leaning Against a Wall, a painting from Arabella’s Being Collection was on show at the all women exhibition at the In Toto gallery in Johannesburg in February 2012. Titled She@InToto, this exhibition of works by female artists investigates […]
Journal 4 January 2012 by Nicky Diamond
“Essence” exhibition at The White House shows various collections and drawings
The White House in Plettenberg Bay recently held an exhibition “Essence” showing Arabella Caccia’s work alongside paintings by Cathy Abrahams. Paintings and drawings from Arabella’s Being and Gifts From the Garden collections, and also a selection of her pencil […]
Journal 18 December 2011 by Nicky Diamond
Caccia’s Girl in a Red Dress part of Everard Read’s 15th anniversary exhibition
Arabella’s Girl in a Red Dress Collection formed part of Everard Read Cape Town’s 15th anniversary exhibition in December 2011. The paintings were inspired by Asisipho Ndlovu Malunga, a dancer who, in her essence seems to express the archetype […]
Journal 26 September 2010 by Nicky Diamond
Terracotta collection on show at Everard Read Gallery Cape Town
September 2010 saw an exhibition of Arabella Caccia’s Terracotta collection at Everard Read Gallery in Cape Town. Inspired by her Sight collection, a collaborative project with photographer Deborah da Silva, the terracotta figures are made up of various mythical female […]