Born in Valenciennes (France), on the border between France and Belgium, Sylvie Rabussier has now set up her workshop near Paris, in Île de France.
A recognized professional artist, she has created a large number of works of art during her professional career.

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Her initial training in architecture led her to enroll at the Duperré School of Applied Arts in Paris, specializing in visual arts/spatial design, from which she graduated at the top of her class in 1979. There, she learned various visual and graphic techniques, allowing her to develop a diverse and rich artistic practice. She also pursued studies in Visual Arts at the Sorbonne and obtained two teaching certificates (CAPES) in Art.
Plastics, and the CAPES in Applied Arts, Major again and eligibility for the agrégation.

 

Having obtained her diplomas, she continued her artistic and technical training for 3 years, more oriented towards the Art of Mosaic, through trips to India, in the provinces of Kerala and Rajasthan, forging relationships with Indian artists, then to Turkey for Byzantine art, to Greece in Delos, to Italy in Ravenna, Venice and Spilimbergho where she worked with Italian mosaicists, and finally to Morocco.

 

After creating her first monumental work, "Water Movement and Seagulls," at the Saint-Germain-en-Laye International High School, and while perfecting her mosaic techniques at the Friuli Mosaic School in Spilimbergo, she learned that Mr. Gérald Van
der Kemp, Member of the Institut de France, Honorary Inspector General of the Museums of France, Honorary Chief Curator of the Museum of Versailles and Trianons, Curator of the Monet gardens in Giverny, presents his candidacy for the Marcel Bleustein Foundation Prize for Vocation.

 

Winner in 1982 of the Prix de la Fondation de la Vocation, promotion Emile Bernheim, under the high patronage of His Majesty, King Baudouin of Belgium, her prize was presented to her in Paris by the Belgian ambassador in Paris, His Excellency Baron Paternotte de la Vaillée.

From 1982 to 1984, Sylvie Rabussier collaborated with the Publicis, Benson and Thomson companies to conduct research on the relationship between computer imagery and mosaic art, resulting in various publications, including the Courrier des Métiers d'Art.

 

His career is marked by the creation of numerous monumental works, mostly within the framework of public commissions, but also private ones: sculptures, squares, murals, in situ installations, etc. Moreover, each work is deeply embedded in an iconographic reflection.

Her research focuses on the dialogue that mosaic creates with architecture, space, and light.

This creativity was rewarded in 1995 with the Jean des Vignes Rouges prize, from the Academy of Arts and Letters of Versailles, Yvelines and the Ile de France Region, crowning a career already rich in these numerous creations.

 

Today, Sylvie Rabussier leads a team of mosaic specialists, artisans and journeymen, both French and Italian; she has partnered with a multidisciplinary team of architects and building technicians, enabling her to provide comprehensive solutions and
thus becoming part of the most complex architectural works.

Alongside monumental works, she develops a vast artistic body of work including paintings, drawings, ex-votos, object design, etc. Her current research increasingly explores transparency and light, as evidenced by this important series of paintings around the Désert de Retz, an 18th-century Anglo-Chinese garden in Chambourcy.

 

Sylvie Rabussier's work has greatly contributed to reviving the art of mosaic in France. She constantly demonstrates the importance of the drawing(s) for the creation of a work, thus reminding us that mosaic, beyond the complex techniques of implementation, results from a long-term process, combining creativity, artistic culture, know-how, and consideration of the place and the light.