Portrait by Clara Chichin

Sabatina Leccia

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

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Winner of Transverse award with Clara Chichin

2022

Winner of EDF Sustainable Design Challenge

Preselected for the Villa Kujoyama,
Kyoto, Japan

Art Residency at TYPA Center, 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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