Marie-Pierre Leroux’s practice superimposes two seemingly incompatible worlds - the world we live in and the world we live off. Her work entangles humans and nature. 
Fauna and flora, energy and humans collaborate in games and role playing assemblies which she designs with JUST DUST, a collective of makers and thinkers. These imaginative encounters are grounded in local and live issues to create new forms of thinking and feeling. Voices question the current governance of climate heating and the destruction of life. They support the creation of her works and spark further dialogues for audiences including local communities, activists, school children, NGOs and local councillors.

Marie-Pierre’s deep involvement with river, soil and air typically simmers over a long period of time. Her practice is intergenerational and collective. She uses field observation to collect the stories of local people and nature whose resources and lives are swiftly changing. She translates language, geography and sciences into installations, publications, videos, sound, objects, games and assemblies. She has created a broad body of work about climate change including a triptych Voicing the Air, Voicing the Soil and Voicing the River Wye. Voicing the Air was born in Aberystwyth during a residency with the geography department of the university.

Marie-Pierre is an alumni of the French national school of photography. She holds two master’s degrees, in fine art from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and in English literature from the university of Avignon in France. She has worked in scientific publishing in the UK and in France.

Her work has been shown collaboratively at Birmingham School of Art and individually at Hereford Cider Museum. She works in England and Wales and in Germany where she is deeply involved with trees in urban landscapes. She views child raising as an intergenerational endeavour and shares her practice with her granddaughter. She supports the forest NGO Kiezwald and is the MP for the population of Fungus in the parliament organised by Organisms Democracy in Berlin.

Selected exhibitions and projects

2019-2022 Voicing the Air, can climate heating be explored from the perspectives of both Humans and More Than Humans?
Over 200 people took part in the Assembly and discovered a radical other point of view, including the RSPB and Extinction Rebellion.

2017-2019 Voicing the Soil, is soil made up of the interaction of local and global encounter in pastoral Herefordshire?
Exhibited with a debate on farming and grazing practices to keep carbon in the earth at Hereford Cider Museum and Hereford College of Art.

2016-2018 Voicing the Wye, dare you navigate Britain’s most romantic river? Exhibited collaboratively at Birmingham School of Art.
The Climate Game, which we designed and ran, is a thought experiment. Children living around Hay on Wye walked along a timeline from now until 2100. At each stop they made a life style choice or threw the dice. By the end they were asking questions about the impact of adults’ choices on their future and that of the Wye.

Performances (2015-2016)

A Body of Paint is an experiment to produce a collective art painting. Twenty dancers joyously rolled in pure colours and imprinted their body directly on large canvases to rapid variations of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. A collaboration with Gillian Hipp, Course Leader - BA (Hons) Performing Arts, Hereford College of Art.

Hereford Complaints Choir invited students and staff at an art college to complain and vote for their best complaints, which were put to music. This was a collaboration with Pete Thorogood, Course Leader - Extended Diploma in Music, Hereford College of Art.

Residency (2019-2020)
Voicing the Air was born in Aberystwyth during a residency with the geography department of the university.

Kudos (2022)
The Assembly has been listed by the RSPB and Royal Society of Arts as one of their examples of 'inspirational work' on climate change related to COP26.

Ongoing
2019 Founded the collective JUST DUST, an intergenerational, multidisciplinary collective of Franco-Anglo-Welsh artists, designers, game inventors, facilitators, farmers, a geologist, a priest, geographers, scientists and poets. Creative projects include Voicing the Air and Voicing the Soil.

2022 MP for the population of Fungus in the parliament organised by Organisms Democracy in Berlin.