Francesca Busca
As an eco-artivist, rubbish artist and waste mosaicist, Francesca transforms waste into "trashure," creating sustainable art that protests disposable lifestyles and offers new perspectives on rubbish. Her hopeful artworks aim to spark constructive conversations and inspire systemic re-thinking.
Living a holistic eco-artivism, Francesca is vegan, uses renewable energy, wears second-hand clothes, avoids plastic, seeks local food, saves water, grows a garden, and hasn't flown for four years.
A former City solicitor, Francesca graduated with distinction in Mosaic and Fine Arts from the London School of Mosaic in 2019, where she also lectured in 2021/22. She founded the Payment in Kind(ness)© initiative, accepting eco-friendly actions as payment for her artwork, ArtforTrash©, creating art from clients’ waste, and of the GREENy bastARTs collective, an international eco-artivist collective of artists, scientists, engineers, businesses, communities, and activists serving as a bridge between environmental understanding and transformative action across Europe, and as a resource platform of connections and tools to enable anyone to join in the Change.
Francesca is often called to give eco-artivist talks and run art projects on eco-awareness and sustainability with schools, offices and organisations, collaborating with Living Streets, Salon Sustainability, Fernando Montaño, LIGCA, and Earthfest 2024 & 2025. She is on retainer with the Institute of Marine Sciences of the Italian National Research Council in Venice and, since January 2025, also the art teacher at the Italian School in London (SIAL).
A member of Insights Of An EcoArtist (IOAEA), Project One Wave, ActforEaling, BAMM, Heritage Crafts and Mensa, Francesca supports multiple environmental organizations, donating 10% of her income from ArtforTrash commissions.
Her quest is to turn shame into wonder, push the boundaries of mosaic and art, act as a catalyst, and provoke real change.
