artist/ LEVERGER

Nathalie Leverger is originally from Brittany, a region that has forged her sensitivity between sea travel and family traditions of techniques textiles. After graduating from Audencia, she made a decisive turning point in 2003, abandoning her initial career to devote herself fully to the painting.
In 2007, Xavier Carrere, master glassmaker, became her first gallery owner (2007/2011), then she participated in art fairs in Marseille, Metz and Le Mans, which opened the doors of several galleries in France, including the Galerie du Lézard in Aix en Provence and the BJ Art Gallery in Paris. That same year, her meeting with the poet Paule-Elisabeth Oddero became decisive. Their regular collaboration led to the birth of 3 collections and several object books and broadened her artistic research to paper and textile volumes. In 2013 and 2014, her solo exhibitions took her to India, Dubai and Sao Paulo, nourishing her inspiration. From 2015, she invested in more institutional places, with installations mixing paper and textiles (“Poets your papers” Paper Museum Laarkirchen, Austria, 2016 or La Casa del Cable, Javea, Spain, 2018). Since 2017, she has been represented in Paris by the Isabelle Laverny gallery. In 2018, a first research-creation residency took her to Ouessant. This was followed by a tour of Greece in the footsteps of Albert Camus (public commission 2021) and then Jarrier in Savoie (2023). She moved to Lyon in 2018, A new landscape Offered to her. She became a regular contributor to her daily life and pushed her to focus on flowers and nature, giving birth to the series JARDINS SECRETS, where she experimented with new mediums such as blown glass or video.
Today, her research is developed from paper made from flax seeds and gives rise to installations but also more intimate works.