Sabatina
Leccia
Portrait by Clara Chichin
Sabatina Leccia
Sabatina Leccia is a french artist born in 1984.
Her works balances between Art and Craft.
In 2012, she graduated from MA Material Futures at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design in London. There she began todevelop experimental embroidery. Before setting up her workshop in Montreuil, she worked as an embroiderer for Haute couture and collaborates with many luxury brands (Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga…). In 2015, she began to exhibit these first embroidered paintings at the Amélie de Borchgrave gallery in Brussels and from there she carried out numerous artistic projects: Artistic residency in Estonia, collaboration with the Fabrique Nomade in 2017, then in 2019 she was called by the Maison Patou to embroider the costume of the academician Barbara Cassin.
Sabatina has now set up her workshop at Usine Chapal in Montreuil. She works regularly with interior design agencies (Soho Myriad in the United States, Winch Design in the United Kingdom, Gilles & Boissiers in France).She makes tailor-made drawn or embroidered works for hotels or individuals. Alongside her personal projects, Sabatina regularly collaborates with Alix Waline represented by the Armel Soyer gallery.Together they recently exhibited their work at Genius Loci, curated by Marion Vignal, in Gio Ponti's house in Garches.
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Text by the french art critic and curator Madeleine Filippi ( translation by Claire Vicomte) about my work if you click here
Education
2010 - 2012
MA Textile Futures at Central Saint Martin’s School, London.
2007 - 2008
BA Fashion at Studio Berçot, Paris
2002 - 2005
2002
Baccalaureat L with fine Art Option.
Awards
Winner of Transverse award with Clara Chichin
2022
2011
Winner of EDF Sustainable Design Challenge
Recidencies
2016
2015
Preselected for the Villa Kujoyama,
Kyoto, Japan
Art Residency at TYPA Center, Tartu, Estonia
Exhibitions
2023 Souffle d'été by Expérience Collective, Galerie Virginie Lessage et Anne Sirot, Paris.
2021 Grains Libres by Madeleine Filippi, Paris
Genius Loci by Marion Vignal, Garches
Le temps est comme suspendu with Murs
Blancs chez Archik, Paris
Déconfilement with The Fibery Gallery,
Paris
Nucleus, Gilles & Boissier Showroom, Paris
2020 Nucleus, Salon DDessin with The Fibery Gallery, Paris
2019
Les Paradis Perdus, Galerie Bettina, Paris
Force & Délicatesse, Galerie N'Oblige, Paris
Microcosme, The Fibery Gallery, Paris
Accrochage II, The Fibery Gallery, Paris
2018
Galerie Première Œuvre, Paris
L’intuition des Couleurs,
Espace d’art contemporain Orenga de Gaffory, Patrimonio, Corse
2017
D'un espace à l'autre, le 87, Art Exprim, Paris
Journée Européenne des Métiers d’Art,
INMA, Paris
Pénélope, Grands Voisins, Paris
2016
Les Paradis Perdus, Trevor, Paris
Waiting for the Sun, Lambrata, Milano
2015
Painting Embroidery, Gallery Chevalier, Paris
I Follow Rivers, atelier 14, Paris
Poetic Plastic, LMK, Tartu
Painting Embroidery,
Gallery Amelie de Borchgrave, Brussels
2014
Illuminated Corolla, Gallery Joseph, Paris
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2013
Poetic Plastic, Mood, Brussels
Waste is Beautiful,
Prima u Mare, Erbalonga, Corsica
Alive-En Vie, fondation EDF, Paris
Art of Protest,
People’s History Museum, Manchester
2012
Lille 3000, Lille
EDF Olympic showroom, London
Ma Textile Futures Exhibition, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins School, London
2008
Nuage, école des Beaux Arts, Paris