Project
Aurelia LeBlanc, textile artist specialized in weaving, printing and embroidery techniques and Lucile Viaud, artist researcher specialized in glass creation that is sourced both naturally and from local byproducts. LeBlanc and Viaud  be experimented eaving glass in our plural disciplinary and glass studios. At the studios of the Fondation, following the creation of the work Confluence, both continued their research using other glass works by Lucile like Abysse, Rouergue, in order to assemble, to compare and to study the possible blending of glass threads with other threads such as those of seaweed, flax or hemp.

Biographies

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Aurélia Leblanc

Textile designer trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Aurélia Leblanc masters various craft skills: weaving, printing, screen printing and embroidery. In 2015, she won the Lookbook Price from MAD Brussels (House of Fashion and Design) and created a workshop that bears her name. Aurélia Leblanc is the winner of the Grands Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris 2018 (emerging talent-art profession category).

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Lucile Viaud

Lucile started her studies at the Ecole Boulle  and in 2015  graduated with a Diploma in Applied Arts in object design. The same year, she launched her project, Ostraco, which was part of her graduation research.
During her training course, Lucile Viaud began a process of recycling waste from the Breton marine industry in order to create a 100% marine material. She develops her own recipes by gradually substituting the raw materials present in the composition of the glass with materials sourced from the sea (shells, shells, bones, seaweed), and thus obtains two materials: marine plaster and marine glass.
Lucile Viaud is the winner of the Grands Prix de la creation of the City of Paris 2018 (design-emerging talent category).