Estelle Garcia Blanco (b. 1995) lives and works Brussels (BE). She is a textile artist working with feathers and reclaimed materials. She holds an MFA in Textile Design from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Brussels (2022) and trained as a featherworker at Maison Lemarié, part of Chanel’s Métiers d’Art in Paris.
Estelle Garcia Blanco is a textile artist and featherworker whose practice merges installation and sculpture. She works exclusively with textile and reclaimed feathers—from old pillows (goose, duck) and urban finds (pigeon, parakeet).
She is a laureate of the Vocatio Prize, patronized by BNP Paribas Fortis, and was shortlisted for the Elisabeth Burdot Textile Art Prize in Brussels. In 2026, she was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Prix Méréa in Paris.
Drawing inspiration from systems of classification and field gestures related to observation and collecting, her work lies at the intersection of art and life sciences. The feather, both material and image, becomes in her work a way to reflect on the boundaries between the human and the animal.
Her artistic practice explores the fragile and poetic relationships between humans and birds. Through found and recycled materials (especially feathers) she reflects on disappearance and transformation in the Anthropocene.
I wish to create a quiet dialogue between art and ecology, where listening and attention become creative gestures. All along 2026, I will publish a printed edition called Birding without birds. It's an artist magazine exploring our visual relationship with birds in a disappearing world.
EXHIBITIONS
2027
Librairie Candide, Brussels, BE
"Birding without birds"
15 January - 15 February
2026
Art Au Centre #19. Liège, BE
11 June - 31 August, collective show
Elisabeth Burdot - Contemporary textile Art Prize. Brussels, BE
29 January - 15 February, collective show
2025
Galerie Espace-D. Etterbeek, BE
"Petits Formats"
6 - 16 November, collective show
Chez Olivia, Project Room. Saint-Gilles, BE
"A l'ombre des espèces"
20 March - 26 April, collective show
Galerie Espace-D. Etterbeek, BE
"Ornithoptère"
3 - 13 April, duo show
2023
Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture. Barcelona, SP
« EfemeraInfinte »,
27 July - 2 August, duo show
Barcelona emerging Art festival. Barcelona, SP
« Ruta Art Nou »
26 July - 2 August, collective Show
2022
Patinoire Royale, Galerie Valérie Bach. Brussels, BE
« Dénouement »
2 - 4 June, collective show
2021
Espace Vanderborght. Brussels, BE
5 - 10 June, collective show
RESIDENCIES
April, 2026 Albanian Ornithological Society (AOS)
July, 2023 Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture. Barcelona
Octobre-decembre, 2021 Clinique Vestimentaire - Jeanne Vicerial. Paris
AWARDS
2026 Prix Méréa, Mention Honorable. Paris
2025 Elisabeth Burdot - Textile Art, Shortlisted. Brussels
2023 Vocatio Prize. Patronized by BNP Paribas Fortis. Brussels
2022 Excellence Prize of the City of Brussels. Brussels
2022 ArBA-EsA – Espronceda Prize : Artistic residency at
Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture. Barcelone
TALKS / TEACHING
Jan - June, 2026 Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Textile art - embroidery). Brussels
13 February, 2026 Librairie Par Chemins. Brussels
15 January, 2026 Librairie Candide. Brussels
21 November, 2025 Librairie Wallonie-Bruxelles. Paris
20 July, 2023 Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture. Barcelone
EDUCATION
2022 Master, Design Textile, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussel
2020 Bachelier, Design Textile, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussel
2019 CAP, Featherworker, Lycée Octave Feuillet, Paris
2018 CAP, Florist in artificial flowers, Lycée Octave Feuillet Paris
2016 Escuela Superior de Arte Felicidad Duce, Barcelona