Alex Culshaw explores the unstable relationship between the cinematic record and lived experience, working across moving image, sound, and live performance. Through restaging, image degradation, and live narration, her work examines how personal and collective narratives are constructed, mediated, and retold.

Alex's work has been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally, including at MEZZANINE, London (2025); The Horse Hospital, London for Resonance FM (2025); Avalon Cafe, London for Fieldnotes Live (2025); The Pen Theatre, London (2024); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); Aesthetica Short Film Festival (2021); Chicago Underground Film Festival (2020); and Glasgow International Film Festival (2020). In 2025, she received an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grant to develop skills in sound and live performance, and in 2019, received ACE Project Grant funding for The Ripple. Her work is held in the collections of Biblioteka, London and Leeds Arts University. She has also co-curated AV_Cache and Spectrum.

Alex graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Sculpture – Moving Image (2015–2017) and holds a BA in Art Practice from Goldsmiths, University of London (2009–2012). Alongside her studio practice, she teaches on the BA and MFA Fine Art programmes at Kingston School of Art and has previously taught at the Royal College of Art and Arts University Bournemouth. In 2021, she completed a PGCert in Higher Education at the Royal College of Art and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a mentor for Arts Emergency.

Contact

culshaw22 @ gmail.com