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 thereshe 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.

Education 

2010 - 2012

 MA Textile Futures at Central Saint Martin’s School, London.

2007 - 2008

BA Fashion at Studio Berçot, Paris

2002 - 2005

BA History & Archeology at Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne

2002

Baccalaureat L with fine Art Option.

Awards 

2011

 Finalist at EDF Sustainable Design Challenge

Recidencies

2016 - 2017

Les Grands Voisins, Paris.

2016

Preselected for the Villa Kujoyama,
Kyoto, Japan.

2015

Art Residency in Tartu, Estonia.

Exhibitions

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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

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2020                        Nucleus, Salon DDessin with The Fibery                                             Gallery, Paris

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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

Art En Espace Publics, 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

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

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