Alex McQuilkin

"McQuilkin presents a sex-tape, of a sort. Her face is tightly framed by the camera, she applies make-up while in the midst of the experience...

"Blood seeps through lace bandages around her wrists while McQuilkin carefully and contemplatively applies a thick rim of greasy black eyeliner." -...

"The first work in which Alex McQuilkin replaces the music with speech, she approaches the duality of beauty and destruction from a different side...

"One-woman recreation of the final scene from Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 movie adaptation of Shakespeare’s teenage romance" - Ana Finel Honigman...

"Homage to suicidal revenge fantasies, the artist sinks below the surface of her bath in what seems to be a brief and futile attempt to drown...

"In Rock and Roll Alex masochistically undulates in front of a bloody Kurt Cobain poster, slashed scars reaming her pretty, defiant face (surely...

The male gaze, staged in the classic western genre, forms the backdrop to Get Your Gun Up.

"McQuilkin presents a sex-tape, of a sort. Her face is tightly framed by the camera, she applies make-up while in the midst of the experience...