Francesca Busca London, United Kingdom
As an ecoartivist, rubbish artist and waste mosaicist, Francesca Busca sees waste as "trashure", sole material for her artworks, dismantling disposable culture. Her practice pivots around community engagement and merges art, activism, and environmental urgency, envisioning systemic change towards planetary wellbeing. Founder of ArtforTrash, Payment in Kind(ness) and the GREENy bastARTs collective.
A former City solicitor turned eco-artivist, Francesca Busca abandoned conventional paths to pioneer art made entirely from waste—her "trashure." Trained with distinction at London School of Mosaic where she lectured during 2021–22, she also taught Art at the Italian School in London. As a Project One Wave member, she retrieves ghost fishing gear and marine debris, transforming them into commentary on ecological collapse. She works through alternative models including ArtforTrash© and Payment in Kind(ness)©, and delivers eco-artivist talks across corporate, academic, institutional, and educational settings. On retainer with Venice's Institute of Marine Sciences and collaborating with London Transport Museum's school partnership programme, she founded GREENy bastARTs—an international eco-artivist collective bridging environmental understanding across Europe. She contributes to periodicals in the US and Italy, and is a member of IOAEA, ActforEaling, BAMM, ArtCan, VAA and Mensa.
Francesca sees waste as "trashure"—precious prime material. As an eco-artivist, rubbish artist, and waste mosaicist, she transforms society's discards into artworks that dismantle disposable culture and question who defines value, beauty, and legitimacy. She sources materials not from suppliers but through community engagement and activist missions—each item and artwork becomes a vehicle for behavioral change. Her practice exists at the intersection of art, activism, and environmental urgency, where aesthetics meet ethics. She believes art is the closest thing to a universal language and the very fiber of empathy and connection, capable of sparking dynamic conversations and building cross-sector networks. Her quest explores the metamorphosis of materials, pushing the boundaries of both art and mosaic to achieve maximum social engagement with minimal environmental impact. The more beautiful her creations, the clearer her message: from waste to wonder, her hopeful artworks envision systemic rethinking—from anthropocentric values to the common good of the whole.
