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Residency Period: 2/3/26 - 27/4/26

My work explores how humans relate to the natural world across time, from ecological memory to imagined futures. Using glass as my primary material, I create botanical studies, sculptural objects and immersive installations that move between the familiar and the uncanny. Rooted in both craft and inquiry, my practice draws on scientific observation, ecological history, and speculative thinking.

Glass can freeze organic moments while also holding weight, structure, and reflectivity. Activated by light, it shifts between transparency, shadow, and colour. These qualities allow me to communicate ecological narratives through material behaviour and to build environments that are both sensory and reflective.

An EcoGothic approach runs throughout my work, informed by folklore, environmental history, and the quiet vitality of overlooked ecologies such as lichens, weeds, ruins, and remnants of industry. I treat these elements as narrators of resilience and adaptation. My experience across flameworking, hot glass sculpture and casting allow me to work at a range of scales, from fragile botanicals to installation-based forms.

Alongside my studio practice, I am committed to teaching, community engagement and expanding awareness of glass as a medium. I am currently training to become a certified Wellness Officer in the Arts Sector through UCC and Safe To Create, supporting safer and more sustainable working cultures within the arts.

Lindsay LeBlanc, Vegetal Alterity, 2022 Found books, borosilicate glass, Dimensions variable Image courtesy of the artist
Lindsay LeBlanc, Vegetal Alterity, 2022
Found books, borosilicate glass, Dimensions variable
Image courtesy of the artist
Lindsay LeBLanc, Out Within: Praeger’s Seed Survey, 2023. Sculpture in Context, National Botanical Gardens, Dublin. Glass seeds, laser-engraved walnut, water 83×83×7cm. Image courtesy of the artist
Lindsay LeBLanc, Out Within: Praeger’s Seed Survey, 2023. Sculpture in Context, National Botanical Gardens, Dublin. Glass seeds, laser-engraved walnut, water 83×83×7cm.
Image courtesy of the artist
Lindsay LeBlanc, Seed Survey, 2023.They Are Home, Burren College of Art Glass, uranium, UV light 196×15×5cm. Image courtesy of the artist
Lindsay LeBlanc, Seed Survey, 2023.
They Are Home, Burren College of Art
Glass, uranium, UV light 196×15×5cm.
Image courtesy of the artist
Lindsay Leblanc, Build, Balance, 2023. Collaborative installation, Gallery 126, Galway Borosilicate glass, cinder blocks, marine plastic, seed pods, driftwood. Image courtesy of the artist.
Lindsay Leblanc, Build, Balance, 2023.
Collaborative installation, Gallery 126, Galway
Borosilicate glass, cinder blocks, marine plastic, seed pods, driftwood. Image courtesy of the artist.

Lindsay LeBlanc (b. 1989, USA) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and EcoGothic researcher with more than fifteen years of experience in glassmaking. Based in County Leitrim, she works across glass, sculpture, and installation to explore connections between ecology, material culture, and speculative futures. Her practice is shaped by technical fluency and an ability to adapt glass from delicate botanical forms to robust installation scale structures.

LeBlanc holds an MFA in Art and Ecology from Burren College of Art and a BFA in Sculpture and Glass from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work has received international recognition, including the 2024 Jutta Cuny Franz Talent Prize and the Sculpture in Context Goodbody Award. She has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States and serves on the board of the Glass Society of Ireland.

She is currently training to become a certified Wellness Officer in the Arts Sector through University College Cork and Safe To Create, supporting safer, more equitable and more sustainable working conditions in the arts. Her ongoing initiatives include Re:Glass, an educational programme promoting recycled glass and public engagement with the medium. She is also developing a place-based body of work focused on documenting and interpreting the bogland ecologies of County Leitrim, deepening her engagement with the region’s environmental histories.

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