The work addresses climate change, pollution, extraction, and ecosystem fragility through objects and images that ask viewers to slow down and look harder.
Environmental art, photography, installation
Sustainable Art practice. Leia Mocan.
A Romanian-born multimedia artist based in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin. Her practice connects ecology, migration, community, and reuse through sculpture, photography, installation, performance, and curatorial work.
Practice
Material reuse, ecological urgency, and identity are held in the same frame.
Illegal dumping sites, personal waste, dry pigments, textiles, and recovered plastics become part of an environmentally conscious making process.
Alongside the studio practice, Leia curates, collaborates, mentors, and contributes to artist-led initiatives in Balbriggan and Dublin.
Projects
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My work is not intended to function as decoration. It uses aesthetics as a channel through which environmental awareness can be felt, questioned, and carried forward.
Recent milestones
Selected exhibitions, curatorial projects, and awards through 2025.
2025
Weaving the Threads of Heritage
Presented new works including Inner Self and the video performance The Odessey as part of the Fingal Creative Communities bursary programme curated by Petra Sky.
2025
On the Altar of the Arts 2025
Exhibited the photographic series A Visual Dialog between I and Me in Balbriggan as part of a show reflecting on identity.
2024
Roots of Reuse
Co-curated Culture Night 2024 for SCÉAL Arts Collective and directed the accompanying video journal documenting sustainable local practices.
2024
Facing the Self
Presented a solo exhibition of photography and mixed media at GalleryX, Dublin, including the works Confluence of Realms and Semn de Mama.
2023
In the Land of the Green
Co-curated a retrospective exhibition supported by the Embassy of Romania in Ireland and showed work in solo and group contexts across Dublin.
2019 to 2023
Ongoing development
Received bursaries from Griffith College, the Arts Council, and the Centre for Creative Practices while developing exhibitions, performance works, and community projects.
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