Mo Lea is from a working class background in Liverpool. Despite having been attacked by the Yorkshire Ripper she has had a successful career teaching in a range of institutions over the years ranging from Probation services, Junior, Secondary and Further and Higher Education at Masters level in the UK, USA, Malaysia, and in the South Pacific.
Mo is a practicing artist and throughout her teaching, she has exhibited new bodies of work every few years in the cities where she's lived including London, Los Angeles and New York.
In her younger years she used drawing to express conditions of memory and trauma, finding the creative process both healing and calming.