Francesca Busca
ArtistUnited Kingdom
About Me
About Me
Bio
As an Eco-artivist, ‘Rubbish artist’ and mosaicist, Francesca pioneers sustainable art by creating her artworks entirely out of waste.
Torn between optimism and surrender, Francesca is haunted by the idea of mankind’s imminent self-destruction. Yet she believes in a future of resourceful innovation through re-thinking and preventing, and her artworks are drenched in this hope: the more beautiful the artworks, the clearer the message, as every tessera she creates is in itself a protest against our disposable lifestyle, providing a different perspective on waste. Her ‘Trashure’ acquires new value and becomes the undisputed protagonist of her artworks, as fun and beautiful a Cinderella as she can master it to be: from waste to wonder.
Gesamtkunstwerk, her eco-artivism encompasses every aspect of her life: a vegan raising vegans, using 100% renewable energy, wearing second-hand clothes, growing a vegetable and wildlife garden, (…) and not flying for the past 4 years, she strives to live as sustainably as possible.
Francesca graduated with distinction in Mosaic and Fine Arts at the London School of Mosaic in 2019, where she also lectured the Fabrication module in 2021/22. She exhibited in over 100 venues internationally, was published in over 60 articles and textbooks internationally, and won over 2 dozen awards internationally.
She is the founder of Payment in Kind(ness)© , whereby she accepts eco-friendly actions as payment toward her artwork, and of ArtforTrash©, whereby she uses the clients’ own waste to create artwork for residential, institutional and corporate settings internationally.
Francesca runs pro bono art projects on eco-awareness and sustainability. To name a few, she collaborated with Living Streets, Salon Sustainability, Fernando Montaño and a few schools. Her longest collaboration (March 2018 - April 2019) was “A Breath of Fresh Air” with LIGCA, which involved 5 schools in London and Delhi and culminated in an exhibition at the Nehru Centre in Mayfair - along with a few workshops with primary and secondary schools.
She is currently collaborating both with Camden Clean Air in London on Earthfest 2024 and with the Institute of Marine Sciences in Venice on Project Maelstrom, whereby she will create a permanent installation in loco during the Venice Boat show 2024 by using both the waste recovered from the sea through their initiatives and that from their labs.
In short, Francesca's quest is to keep pushing the boundaries of both mosaic and fine art, act as a catalyst and provoke real Change.
Torn between optimism and surrender, Francesca is haunted by the idea of mankind’s imminent self-destruction. Yet she believes in a future of resourceful innovation through re-thinking and preventing, and her artworks are drenched in this hope: the more beautiful the artworks, the clearer the message, as every tessera she creates is in itself a protest against our disposable lifestyle, providing a different perspective on waste. Her ‘Trashure’ acquires new value and becomes the undisputed protagonist of her artworks, as fun and beautiful a Cinderella as she can master it to be: from waste to wonder.
Gesamtkunstwerk, her eco-artivism encompasses every aspect of her life: a vegan raising vegans, using 100% renewable energy, wearing second-hand clothes, growing a vegetable and wildlife garden, (…) and not flying for the past 4 years, she strives to live as sustainably as possible.
Francesca graduated with distinction in Mosaic and Fine Arts at the London School of Mosaic in 2019, where she also lectured the Fabrication module in 2021/22. She exhibited in over 100 venues internationally, was published in over 60 articles and textbooks internationally, and won over 2 dozen awards internationally.
She is the founder of Payment in Kind(ness)© , whereby she accepts eco-friendly actions as payment toward her artwork, and of ArtforTrash©, whereby she uses the clients’ own waste to create artwork for residential, institutional and corporate settings internationally.
Francesca runs pro bono art projects on eco-awareness and sustainability. To name a few, she collaborated with Living Streets, Salon Sustainability, Fernando Montaño and a few schools. Her longest collaboration (March 2018 - April 2019) was “A Breath of Fresh Air” with LIGCA, which involved 5 schools in London and Delhi and culminated in an exhibition at the Nehru Centre in Mayfair - along with a few workshops with primary and secondary schools.
She is currently collaborating both with Camden Clean Air in London on Earthfest 2024 and with the Institute of Marine Sciences in Venice on Project Maelstrom, whereby she will create a permanent installation in loco during the Venice Boat show 2024 by using both the waste recovered from the sea through their initiatives and that from their labs.
In short, Francesca's quest is to keep pushing the boundaries of both mosaic and fine art, act as a catalyst and provoke real Change.
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