Gaëlle Leroy

Since 2014, Gaëlle Leroy has been co-facilitating the Créahmbxl (Creation and Mental Disability) visual arts workshops and designing the association's large-scale exhibitions. Trained as a scenographer at Saint-Luc, Gaëlle Leroy worked for many years with the Théâtre du Plantin and Studio 24. Fascinated by small formats (she has been creating miniature sets since childhood), she works with puppets and is passionate about the project of ‘bringing these inanimate bodies to life by working on their joints and costumes’. Attentive to the directors' wishes, she designs scenographies and entrusts their construction (a first) to a workshop made up of people with disabilities. This practice has led her to introduce playfulness into her requirements, which had been so structured until then.

At Créahmbxl, she pursued another of her passions, street art, and quickly became creative director for major urban mural projects. Her latest creation, 75 m² on the Urban Boat, produced with artists Michaël Mvukani Mpiolani, Jérôme Van Roye (Créahmbxl) and Jérôme Meynen, sails between Lille, Brussels and Paris as part of the In-Out-Sider Festival.