Movies

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

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

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

"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...

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

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

"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...